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SEEKING FAMILY VIOLENCE THERAPIST - MENTAL HEALTH SOCIAL WORKERS, PSYCHOLOGISTS (GENERALLY REGISTERED, COUNSELLING OR CLINICALLY ENDORSED AND/OR CLINICAL REGISTRARS) AND MENTAL HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS
Wild Calm Therapies is a unique private practice based in Hobart and online. We provide specialised individual counseling for adults. Our client base is predominantly womxn wanting to take charge of their lives more, the LGBTIQ+ community and health and social services professionals. We are an established practice with a trusted reputation, and your case load will be built easily in a short amount of time. We have a high attendance rate and cancellation fees are charged to the client if less than 48 hours notice is provided for non-attendance/late cancellations. Rescheduled appointments are also often filled. We pride ourselves on minimal marketing and have steadily relied on word of mouth and recommendations, and have a very high return rate of past clients returning when they desire further support.
Practitioners typically see up to 6 clients (max) per day with short breaks booked between sessions for the therapist's self-care. This is a gradual build as you are promoted to the public and people are drawn to your offerings. Quality over quantity of client sessions is prioritised. We run as a virtual practice, with one worker on site at a time, due to our remote working and hybrid models. At Wild Calm Therapies we highly value who the therapist is as a person and value lived experiences in relation to our typical client groups (Use of Self, how they build relationships with clients, and authenticity). It is important to us to uphold and offer diversity. This makes it critical to find the right fit for us, so we will take our time with careful selection processes and thoughtful recruitment.
Wild Calm Therapies leads with heart and connection first. We model being real. This means we’re ok owning being imperfect. We practice balancing normalising this transparently while holding a grounding, containing position of expertise and experience in our specialty areas. We are conscious of the presence of power and work to create shared power in relationships, including from the inside with practitioners.
Details.
Hybrid model available - In person on site and Telehealth working from home.
Up to 6 clients per day.
Case loads build, lives evolve, and all changes are negotiable and workable.
Contract model to be outlined clearly during onboarding. Excludes Tax and Superannuation.
Your role
Provide medium to long-term individual psychological services to a range of adult clients with a variety of mental health concerns, especially with a primary passion for, willingness, experience and skillset for working with family and / or sexual abuses. (This will not be acute presentations in crisis, nor your whole caseload. Family violence oriented clients are about 50% of the caseload.)
Provide Therapeutic Supervision to professionals and workers - often in health, wellbeing, caring and social services sectors.
Administration duties such as case noting, GP reports and letters, liaising with external services as relevant, maintaining your calendar and ongoing bookings
Report to the Director, who is available for clinical debriefing, risk management support, and operational assistance.
Bring your full and authentic self to your practice, with appropriateness.
Why work with us?
Well-matched clients to therapists' personality and areas of interest so that you enjoy working with your caseload.
You will be a part of an emerging and small yet highly skilled, warm and compassionate team who are aligned in a high standard of clinical practice and client care.
Paperless practice.
Client Management Database usage.
Systems already set up.
Tea available for clients and therapists.
Free street parking available nearby.
Staff shower facilities on site.
We value regular, clear, honest and fun communication. We like to do things differently at Wild Calm and walk to the beat of our own drum.
Supportive, grounded, simplified practice. A no-nonsense way to engage with each other and clients.
Mandatory, regular external supervision with a provider of your choice is required (at your expense)
A contract model of 60/40 of full fees charged.
Each practitioner upholds the values of Wild Calm Therapies by having capacity for one bulk-billed / reduced rate / NDIS client on their caseload.
Your personal life and commitments will be respected with flexible options for Telehealth or Walks-and-Talks from the office as negotiated.
You will be in a practice that is well-known in the family violence and queer community sectors.
You will be in a practice that is active and linked with events and community. We have a presence and encourage community involvement. Eg. attend, write, talk, liaise etc.
Profile on psychology today and Wild Calm website.
Ready to go - walk in and practice.
Autonomy to run your own day in the clinic.
Avoiding your own set up and maintenance costs and efforts if entering private practice for the first time or while you work elsewhere.
Monthly face to face team culture catch ups (due to working autonomously during clinic days, we value making the effort to meet for an hour or so once a month over a cuppa or nibbles to catch up and stay connected personally)
Essential Criteria:
Experience working from a trauma-informed, feminist and intersectional framework.
Experience working with trauma, family and / or sexual violence, LGBTIQ+ matters, burnout prevention. Lived experience of the same.
Own indemnity insurance (or eligibility to apply).
Own ABN.
Minimum 2+ years of experience in providing individual counselling/psychotherapy.
Mandatory, current registration with relevant accrediting body (eg. AASW, AHPRA, PACFA)
Strong preference for eligibility and registration with Medicare as an allied health provider, with an MPN
Compassionate, person-centred and relational therapist.
High capacity for self-awareness, self-reflection and willingness to engage in feedback processes.
A desire to join our team long-term, and developing long-term therapeutic relationships with clients.
Desire to work in a connected and authentic team, yet happy to be autonomous and self-manage in day to day practice. Able to work independently in a virtually run team.
Encouragement to obtain own Workers Compensation Insurance cover.
Experienced and skilled in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide range of mental health disorders
Experienced in the use of evidence-based interventions
Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development and formal individual supervision
High level of interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
Exceptional time-management and organisational skills.
We’d love to hear from you. At this stage, we are accepting phone or email inquiries to commence the conversation. It would be ideal to include a short (2 min max) video introducing yourself, we love a personal touch, as well as a cover letter and CV. Then, we would ask you to come in for a chat in our space in person.
Wild Calm Therapies embodies being values driven and modelled throughout, and the recruitment process is no different. Our recruitment processes value pace (not rushing), space (no decisions from either you or us will be made any faster than one week), fairness (what is a fair contract arrangement), and connect (we need to both be honest about the fit).