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Townsville City, Qld, Au

Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Evidence-informed clinical mental health intervention and client-centred therapy with young people aged 12-25 years old with severe and complex mental health needs in the Tern and YANA programs. Tern Program: long-term complex trauma intervention with young people diagnosed with CPTSD, BPD, and other mental health presentations. Recovery-based counselling facilitated within a 4-phase model which includes the provision of psychoeducation, cognitive therapy, somatic and affect regulation skill development, behavioural activation, narrative and imaginal exposure, psychodynamic techniques, supportive techniques, and holistic case management tailored to the individual. You Are Not Alone (YANA) Program: short term suicide prevention and harm reduction intervention with young people with high suicide risk. Provision of therapies and risk management strategies through the application of DBT, ACT, general counselling, holistic case management, CBT and strengths-based work tailored to the individual.

Townsville, Australia

Conducting assessments including Immediate Risk Needs Assessments, Rehabilitation Needs Assessments and Child into Custody Assessments, at-risk counselling and brief intervention, case management of all pregnant women and women with children in custody, case management of Elevated Base Line Risk offenders, case management of transgender Intensive Management Plan offenders, accurate and comprehensive case-notes, providing professional intervention to offenders, assessing internal carer suitability for children in custody, conducting and writing child care, pregnancy and birth plans, the provision of counselling and welfare-related tasks, liaising and building productive relationships with external service provider, management and oversight of playgroup sessions and events, maintaining own knowledge of contemporary offender programs research and practices, and legislation, policy and procedures in relation to offender management, chair and provide professional advice during multidisciplinary panel meetings, mentor new staff members to ensure appropriate assistance and guidance is provided, liaise with high level third party stakeholders in relation to ongoing services provided to the centre.

Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Temporary Higher Duties Contract.Managing Assessment Services inbox, responding to and liaising with external service providers, allocating Rehabilitation Needs Assessments, vetting staff reports and assessments, ensuring assessments such as IRNAs and RNAs are recorded accurately on IOMS, providing advice to relevant stakeholders and external providers regarding the assessment and management of offenders, maintaining knowledge of COPD and updates, training/supervision of new staff members within Offender Development department, maintaining effective collaboration with internal work units, providing counselling to offenders, and assisting with assessments for pregnant women and women with children in custody.

Townsville

Master of Social Work placement student with Me Too Program and Headspace.Awareness of organisational policies and procedures, co-facilitating group sessions with diverse clients including Pride Project, Girls Talk, Jam Time, Shine, and Sense-ational Me, management of Me-Too program waitlist, conducting Me-Too program phone intake assessments, liaison with external stakeholders including family members and other services, engaging with young people utilising a strengths-based approach, application of the PACE model and family-centred theories in practice, participation in individual and Tern supervision, engaging in informal cultural supervision, observation of Headspace intake assessments and attempting report writing, attending and participating in case formulation sessions and case reviews, attending SURF meetings, and experience writing formal work instructions.

Townsville, Australia

Work with programs such as Quickbooks and Tramada, calculating employee payroll, commission and superannuation, managing books of account, managing invoices and monthly reports, monitoring financial transactions and reports, self-management.

Customer service, cash handling and electronic transactions, banking and cash floats, sales statistics and record keeping, work unsupervised shifts – shift running responsibilities, key holder duties, staff training, keeping up-to-date product knowledge, completing competencies, stock control, daily open and close responsibilities, meeting KPI's and sales targets.

Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Student engagement in all areas, application of key concepts of education to all aspects of learning, working independently and in a group environment, complete all allocated and set tasks, complete Queensland Government online competencies: Code of Conduct Training and Student Protection Training, lunch, and playground duties, working with children with behavioural and developmental disorders.

Master Of Social Work (Professional Qualifying) With Distinction, Social Work, Gpa - 6.5

Double Bachelor Degree, Bachelor Of Business (Human Resources Management) / Bachelor Of Psychological Science, Gpa - 5.48

Activities and Societies: Forensic Psychology program exchange at Maastricht University in the Netherlands in 2017.

Master Of Science In Medicine (Sexual And Reproductive Health), Psychosexual Therapy