Hours: 22.5 hours per week
Award: Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award
Classification: 4.4
Location: Cairns – Greater North QLD service delivery (onsite, Telehealth, occasional travel required)
Your application needs to include the following for consideration:
• Please submit a resume (maximum three pages)
• Cover letter responding to Key Selection Criteria (maximum two pages)
• Contact details for three referees
Join Our Team as an Eating Disorder Practitioner at EDQ!
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of those affected by eating disorders? At Eating Disorders Queensland (EDQ), we are dedicated to providing high-quality mental health services to individuals and their carers, as well as key support from diverse communities.
We welcome and encourage applications from people of diverse backgrounds, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and those with lived experiences of an eating disorder.
About the Role
The Brief Intervention Eating Disorder Practitioner provides brief intervention, care navigation and group services to people with a range of eating disorders.
People of diverse backgrounds and lived experiences of an eating disorder are encouraged to apply for this role.
This position operates within a collaborative team environment that is responsive to service users’ needs and committed to continuous improvement and best practice principles. The practitioner must also work within the Vision and Mission of Eating Disorders Queensland (EDQ) and contribute to organisational objectives.
Why EDQ?
Community-Centric Approach: EDQ is a state-wide, community-based, not-for-profit organisation committed to supporting individuals with eating disorders, along with their carers and loved ones.
Comprehensive Treatment and Support: We offer therapeutic and psychosocial support, coaching, community connection, and early intervention through community education events.
Mission: Our mission is to facilitate hope and recovery for all people affected by eating disorders, aiming for a world free from eating disorders.
Core Values: Nurture, Empowerment, Integrity, Innovation, and Collaboration guide everything we do.
Working Principles:
- Valuing relationships, self-care, care, and connection through engagement and capacity building.
- Strong collaborative shared decision-making environment.
- Respectful recovery-oriented empowerment and strengths-based processes that promote empowerment, self-determination, inclusion, and choice.
- Promoting individual and social change as well as prevention.
- Valuing each person and lived experience.
- Recognising the interactive impact of individual factors, family factors (including genetics), socio-cultural factors, and gender on developing, maintaining, and preventing eating disorders.
- Valuing the vital role of medical and psychiatric services in recovery from an eating disorder. Depending on client needs, we offer our services as a partner and an alternative to the medical model.
- Workplace Health and Safety (WHS): All employees must take reasonable care for their health and safety and that of other personnel affected by their conduct.
Join us in our mission to create a supportive and stigma-free environment for those affected by eating disorders. Apply now and be a part of a team that truly makes a difference!
Key Responsibilities:
- Tertiary Qualification: A degree, or working towards a degree in Social Work, Psychology, or Counselling with specific training and experience in eating disorders is highly regarded but not mandatory.
- Transferrable Skills in Eating Disorders: Ability to apply current skills to support individuals with eating disorders effectively.
- Personal Recovery (If Applicable): Minimum of two years of stable recovery from an eating disorder, if relevant.
- Practice Framework Articulation: Demonstrated ability to clearly articulate and apply a personal practice framework in clinical settings.
- Initial Contact and Assessments: Confidence and proficiency in conducting initial contact, intake, and assessments.
- Client Management: Experience in managing client allocations based on triage and screening outcomes, in collaboration with team coordinators.
- Brief Interventions/Counselling Experience: Proven ability to provide brief interventions, with an understanding of eating disorders and co-occurring issues like mental health and substance use in adult, youth, and family contexts.
- Care Navigation and Waitlist Management: Experience in care navigation and assisting clients through the recovery process, including waitlist management to ensure timely service delivery.
- Understanding of Evidence-Based Interventions: Knowledge of and experience with psychological interventions, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), is highly recommended.
- Group Facilitation and Psychoeducation Programs: Demonstrated experience in facilitating groups and developing/delivering psychoeducation programs.
- Client Management Systems: Competence in using multiple client management systems, such as Csnet, rediCASE, and Cliniko.
- Caseload and KPI Management: Ability to manage a balanced caseload, meeting KPIs while handling individual and group work.
- Interpersonal and Engagement Skills: Strong interpersonal, emotional intelligence, and engagement skills, particularly in working with individuals affected by eating disorders.
- State-Wide Service Delivery: Willingness to support innovative state-wide service delivery, with some interstate travel required.
Benefits:
- Supportive, collaborative, and celebratory work culture
- Ongoing training and supervision throughout the role, including an annual training budget
- A workplace that values the voice of lived experience
- Safe culture for those with a lived experience of eating disorders (if applicable)
- Salary packaging offered
Reporting Relationships:
This position reports to the bITE Team Leader.
Supervise students and volunteers in line with university requirements and assigned projects.
Funding:
All positions offered by EDQ are conditional on recurrent funding from the Qld Government.
Therefore, EDQ offers fixed-term contracts that are in line with funding timelines.
Key Selection Criteria:
In your application, respond to the selection criteria (demonstrate how skills are transferable into working with eating disorders)
- A tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, or Counselling with training and experience in eating disorders is highly valued but optional.
- Be in stable recovery for a minimum of two years from an eating disorder (if applicable).
- Be able to articulate and demonstrate their practice framework.
- Demonstrated experience in brief interventions/counselling, with an understanding of the impact of eating disorders in brief intervention work with adults, young people, and families and co-occurring presentations such as mental health and drug and alcohol concerns.
- Understanding evidence-based psychological interventions, e.g., Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, is highly recommended.
- Demonstrated experience in group facilitation and developing and delivering Psychoeducation programs.
- Be comfortable working across multiple client management systems, e.g. Csnet, rediCASE, and Cliniko.
- Be able and accountable for managing client caseload according to required KPIs, balancing individual work with group facilitation. Highly developed interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, and excellent engagement skills, especially in engaging people with eating disorders.
- Support innovative state-wide service delivery; some interstate travel will sometimes be required.
The applicant must possess the following:
- Valid and current Qld Driver’s Licence.
- Ability and willingness to travel across the specified working region as needed
- Current (or be able to attain) Working with Children Check (Blue Card) and Disability Worker Screening (Yellow Card)
- If applicable, registration with the relevant professional body (e.g. AASW, PACFA, AHPRA etc.)
We will be conducting interviews as we receive applications.
