Rural Aid is Australia’s most trusted rural charity. We stand with our farmers when they need us most. Rural Aid provides critical support to farmers affected by natural disaster through financial, wellbeing and fodder assistance. Rural Aid’s community programs help create more sustainable communities by building stronger futures for all Australian farmers.

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Job TitleCounsellor & Community Representative
LocationInverell (Or within region)
Date29/08/2022

About the role

The Counsellor and Community Representative will offer counselling support to farmers and farming families, while building trust and rapport, listening to their story and exploring how they are coping at present, assessing their safety and those around them.

In this role you will collaboratively identify options for further support and facilitate access to relevant resources and referrals, when required.

You will also represent Rural Aid and its varying number of services to individual clients and community stakeholders. Building a diverse network that facilitates referral processes and further support to registered farmers and farming families. You will have the opportunity to contribute to local community development initiatives and support disaster recovery responses with a focus on farming families.

This is a great opportunity to have a positive impact on the community in which you live.

You will play a key role in supporting positive mental health outcomes for rural Australians.

About you

You will have a degree qualification in Counselling, social work or psychology and must be registered with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA)or your relevant professional registering body.

You will have at least 2 years of proven experience as a Registered Counsellor.

You will also understand the following therapeutic approaches: Solution Focused Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy , Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and experience in group facilitation.

You pride yourself on your collaborative and supportive approach with internal clients and stakeholders.

We’d love it if you had some experience working in rural and remote areas, and or experience in the agriculture sector.

This role will allow you to work remotely from home, with a requirement for some regional travel to visit clients, support disaster recovery, community events, delivering group programs and training.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Please apply using the ‘Apply Now’ button.

Please note: Rural Aid have a mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy, it is a requirement of this role that you can provide evidence of vaccination or exemption.  

You will also be required to undertake a Working with Children check.

Rural Aid is a great place to work, unfortunately there are no jobs at the moment to join the Rural Aid Team. For more information, please email hr@ruralaid.org.au or check back later to see if new jobs have been posted.

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Counsellor & Community Representative – Regional WA

Location: Western Australia

We are seeking professionally qualified, highly motivated and compassionate new team member(s) to join our well established and highly regarded National Mental Health & Wellbeing Team (‘MHWB’) in the important role of Counsellor / Community Representative (‘CCR’) – Regional WA.

Our goal will be to grow our small team of CCR’s extending from in/around Geraldton district in the mid-west-west down to Esperance & surrounds in the south of the state. We would be delighted to hear from qualified applicants based in regional and/or rural communities that, by their respective location, facilitate convenient and efficient regular access to the farming & agricultural regions of WA.

Such townships may include (but not limited to) Mullewa, Mingenew, Morawa regions, further south to Kalannie, York, Merredin east of the capital and onwards down to Albany, Jerramungup and/or Ravensthorpe regions to the south-east towards Esperance on the coast.

This expanded network will play a key role in supporting Rural Aid’s existing and highly coordinated efforts to support the primary producers / growers and sheep farmers of WA via a hybrid work-from-home & outreach (travel) delivery model over approximately the next 18+ months (to June 30th, 2027) by;  

  • Offering counselling support to farmers and farming families ‘on-farm’ where practicable, while building trust and rapport, listening to their story and exploring how they are coping at present, assessing their safety and those around them.  
  • Replicating our existing Rural Aid MHWB model in delivering impactful support to farmers and local regional communities by servicing multiple locations (and farms) across a designated 250km-300km radius.
  • Identifying options for further support for farmers and facilitating access to relevant professional resources and referrals, when required.  
  • Dividing your time between providing counselling ‘on farm’ with rural primary producers, remotely & also travelling to rural communities, representing Rural Aid at community events, agricultural shows and social activities. (Vehicle provided).
  • Assisting with the coordination of our operations in their respective local region(s), as our ‘eyes and ears on the ground’ to ensure local priorities are addressed and pressing needs are prioritised effectively.
  • Representing Rural Aid and its full range of services to individual clients and in consultation with community stakeholders.
  • Building a diverse network that facilitates our referral processes and further support to registered farmers and farming families.
  • Contributing to Rural Aid’s local Community Development initiatives / programs; and,
  • Supporting disaster recovery responses with a focus on farming families, their wellbeing and sustainable recovery.

 

If you would like more information or to apply, please email hr@ruralaid.org.au

 

Would you like to volunteer for the Mental Health and Wellbeing team, check out how here

Would you like to be a Farmer Support Volunteer, check out how here and to apply click here

To learn more about the making a positive impact for Farmers in rural communities, watch the video.

For more information on any of these roles, reach out to hr@ruralaid.org.au