LGBTIQA+ Youth and Family Practitioner
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Drummond Street Services
- Career category: Health professional
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 25/01/2026
- Location: Australia
About the role
Drummond Street Services (DS) and Cafs are working in partnership to deliver QHub, providing co-designed, place-based services to LGBTIQA+ young people and their families/carers across Ballarat, Geelong and the Surf Coast. Working alongside a range of organisations, LGBTIQA+ groups, individuals, families and communities, QHub will meet local needs and provide a range of safe, accessible and wrap around mental health and wellbeing support for local LGBITQA+ communities.
Drummond Street Services (DS) and Cafs are working in partnership to deliver QHub, providing co-designed, place-based services to LGBTIQA+ young people and their families/carers across Ballarat, Geelong and the Surf Coast. Working alongside a range of organisations, LGBTIQA+ groups, individuals, families and communities, QHub will meet local needs and provide a range of safe, accessible and wrap around mental health and wellbeing support for local LGBITQA+ communities.
Your responsibilities
- Provide queer sensitive and affirmative counselling and case management services to a diverse range of LGBTIQA+ young people and their families, including people of colour and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, in Geelong, Ballarat and the Surf Coast
- Provide assessment, treatment and delivery of a range of evidence-based mental health interventions to individuals and families, ranging from crisis intervention to longer-term therapeutic engagement.
- Conduct bio psycho-social assessments of individual and family-based risk and protective factors associated with mental health outcomes and provide focussed therapeutic counselling and interventions for clients presenting with mental health conditions (eg anxiety, depression)
- Conduct assessments of risk and protective factors including comprehensive risk assessments as appropriate
- Develop and implement individual and/or family case plans in collaboration with the client or clients
- Provide appropriate referral to both internal and external support services to meet needs identified through the assessment and case planning processes
- Contribute to the development and delivery of group interventions relating to LGBTIQA+ health and well-being for the diverse range of LGBTIQA+ people and their families, including people of colour and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
- Provide regular written reports to the client’s referrer as required.
- Utilise appropriate assessment tools and measures, as well as outcomes and evaluation tools
- Contribute to the achievement of individual, team and organisational program targets and KPI’s as per contractual agreements with funders and those determined by DS
- Provide queer affirmative and culturally sensitive case consultations to internal and external clinicians and services
Selection Criteria: All of the following must be addressed in your application to be considered.
- Qualifications in social work, psychology, counselling and psychotherapy, family therapy, or related field
- Demonstrated ability to provide counselling and therapeutic interventions with positive client outcomes
- Demonstrated capacity to provide case management
- Demonstrated understanding of the needs, issues and sensitivities of people from diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal, LGBTIQA+ or culturally and linguistically diverse people and communities
- Demonstrated experience of working with families with complex needs such as family violence, drug and alcohol or mental health issues
- Demonstrated organisational skills including the ability to meet deadlines and prioritise work tasks
- Demonstrated capacity to work creatively, show initiative, contribute ideas and be active in a supportive team environment in an agency working to support individual and family relationships
- Identify as belonging to LGBTIQA+ communities
- Full Victorian Driver’s Licence.
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