Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Award: Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010
Classification: Level 6 (non-leadership role)
Location: Brisbane based (State-wide service delivery)
Reports To: Clinical Lead
About Eating Disorders Queensland (EDQ)
Eating Disorders Queensland (EDQ) is a state-wide, community-based not-for-profit organisation that delivers compassionate, evidence-informed, and client-centred services for individuals experiencing eating disorders, their carers, and key support people. Our multidisciplinary team offers therapeutic and psychosocial support, carer and lived-experience peer support, and early intervention education initiatives across Queensland.
We are committed to eradicating weight stigma and diet culture, celebrating body diversity, and centring the voices of lived experience.
We encourage applicants who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders, individuals from diverse backgrounds, and those with lived experiences of eating disorders to apply.
Individuals with emerging leadership skills and experience working in complex mental health.
About the Role
The Advanced Eating Disorders Practitioner is a senior counselling oversight role that strengthens team functioning, practice quality, and client outcomes across EDQ services.
While not a management or leadership position, the role provides formal practice supervision, counselling supervision for client presentations, and operational support to ensure safe, high-quality,
evidence-based service delivery.
The role works closely with the Clinical Lead, escalating significant risks, system issues, or patterns of concern, while independently supporting practitioners in their counselling practice and professional development.
Candidates need to respond to all the Key Responsibilities showcasing transferable skills.
Key Responsibilities
1. Advance Counselling Practice
- Deliver specialist, evidence-based therapeutic services to people with eating disorders
using a multidisciplinary, feminist and social justice–informed practice framework.
- Work with adults, young people, families and carers, including presentations with complex co‑occurring mental health and social issues.
- Utilise evidence‑based therapeutic modalities, including but not limited to:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Expressive and creative therapies
- Support recovery planning and referral pathways for complex client cases when required,
in consultation with the Clinical Lead.
2. Practice Supervision (non-leadership)
- Provide formal practice supervision to:
- Clinical Team members
- Carer Team members
- Deliver monthly individual supervision sessions focused on:
- Counselling Practice reflection and skill development
- Risk assessment and triage
- Ethical decision‑making
- Safe and effective client management
- Provide additional targeted support to practitioners learning to facilitate groups they
have not previously facilitated.
- Escalate significant risk concerns, systemic issues, or recurring practice concerns to
the Clinical Lead.
3. Student and Workforce Development Support
- Participate in student placement processes, including Interviewing students; Supporting student induction.
- Provide supervision and guidance for student projects, including direction and scope.
- Act as the key contact for university liaison matters related to student placements, in collaboration with the Clinical Lead.
4. Service Delivery and Operational Support
- Support the Care Navigator with:
- Client allocations
- Response to allocation requests
- Clinical triage questions within scope
- Provide guidance to team members on group organisation and service delivery logistics.
- Escalate requests involving significant service model or program changes to the Clinical
Lead.
- Monitor and respond to clinical or client‑related emails, directing complex or high‑risk
matters to the Clinical Lead as appropriate.
5. Quality Assurance, Compliance and Systems
- Maintain accurate and timely records in EDQ’s client management system, including:
- Case notes
- Outcome measures
- Data collection and reporting
- Audit clinical and carer team client management systems for quality, compliance, and
accuracy.
- Identify recurring documentation or practice errors and:
- Provide corrective guidance where appropriate
- Advise the Clinical Lead where consistent or systemic issues are identified
- Contribute to continuous quality improvement processes and audit readiness.
6. Team Culture and Professional Practice
- Foster a culture of collaboration, psychological safety, and reflective practice.
- Proactively contribute as a team member to:
- Shared work functions
- Operational processes
- Service improvement consultations
- Support professional development and ethical practice across the team.
7. General
- Work in line with EDQ’s policies and procedures at all times.
- Maintain a strong working knowledge of EDQ policies related to service delivery and
workplace health and safety.
- Comply with all mandatory training, professional registration requirements, and
ethical standards.
Key Relationships
- Clinical Lead
- Clinical Practitioners
- Carer Team Practitioners
- Care Navigator
- Students
- External service providers and referral partners
Role Boundaries
- This role does not include line management, performance management, or staff
disciplinary authority.
- Clinical leadership, service model decisions, and escalation of organisational risk
remain the responsibility of the Clinical Lead.
Capabilities and Experience
- Extensive experience in eating disorder treatment or complex mental health presentations
- Demonstrated capacity to provide high‑quality counselling supervision
- Strong understanding of risk assessment, crisis escalation, and ethical practice
- High‑level documentation, audit, and systems competence
- Collaborative, reflective and values‑aligned practice approach
Benefits of Working at EDQ
• Professional development budget and learning opportunities.
• Supportive and inclusive workplace culture.
• Opportunities to lead values-aligned, state-wide campaigns with meaningful impact.
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements (where possible).
• Salary packaging options.
• Close to public transport.
• A safe and welcoming environment for people with lived experience
Mandatory Requirements
• Current Working with Children Check (Blue Card).
• Criminal history screening (Yellow Card or NDIS Worker Screening Clearance).
• Australian citizenship or permanent residency.
How to Apply
Submit the following:
• Your CV (max. 3 pages).
• A response to the Key Selection Criteria (max. 2 pages).
