Work With Us

4 hours a week

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing evidence-based and trauma-informed therapeutic services to MPP participants

• Maintaining up-to-date, accurate and timely clinical records in line with TIF records policy

• Compiling reports and treatment letters in a timely manner

• Making appropriate referrals and liaising with other treatment services to provide a high-quality service to participants

• Maintaining participant confidentiality and adhering to ethical standards of clinical practice in accordance with the relevant professional Code of Ethics

• Participating in individual and group clinical supervision, team meetings and team building / planning days

• Engaging in ongoing professional development

• All volunteers must be familiar with and operate within the TIF framework, including supporting our vision, values and ethics.

What we're looking for:

• Passion for trauma treatment and therapies

• Desire to work with the Neuroqueer forcibly displaced communities

• Robust understanding of identity affirming and anti-oppressive practices.

• Trained in a range of evidence-based therapeutic modalities 

• Tertiary qualifications in psychology, social work, counselling, psychotherapy, or occupational therapy

• Excellent Trauma informed counselling and clinical skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• An enthusiastic, positive attitude

• Ability to work autonomously, be proactive and self-motivated

• Strong time management skills

• Flexible and adaptable

• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships, communicate effectively, work collaboratively, and create a positive team environment

• A growth mindset and commitment to ongoing professional development

What we offer:

• Affirming, supportive and engaging multidisciplinary team environment

• Formal and Informal Clinical and Group Supervision

• Comfy and Cosy Therapeutic Spaces

• Access to Therapeutic Resources and Support

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Please note that we are currently only looking for Medicare registered mental health therapists.

As a Mental Health Therapist at TIF, your primary role is to deliver affirming, relational, healing centred trauma-informed therapy to participants. You will support individuals to heal, reconnect, and thrive by offering culturally responsive, neurodivergent-affirming, and somatically aware care. You will work collaboratively within a lived-experience-led team, contributing to a collective approach to mental health and community wellbeing.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver individual therapeutic support to participants in alignment with TIF’s values and practices

• Provide support through cultural humility, and an identity affirming lens including neuro, and queer affirming practices

• Develop and implement participant-led therapeutic plans

• Offer EMDR therapy, parts work (IFS, Resource Therapy), or somatic interventions as appropriate

• Conduct outreach therapy when required to support accessibility

• Maintain accurate, strengths-based therapeutic records in a timely manner

• Participate in regular individual and group supervision (provided in-house)

• Work closely with the participant support team and therapeutic teams to ensure smooth participant care

• Uphold confidentiality, informed consent, and trauma-informed practices at all times

• Contribute to and participate in collective learning spaces and team development activities

• Identify and respond to participant risk in a timely and collaborative manner

• Maintain a scent-aware, low-stimulation, identity-affirming workplace environment

• Promote and practice safe work habits, including sensory safety and body autonomy in the workplace

• Actively uphold your own safety and the safety of others through healing centred and trauma informed relational practices

• Follow TIF’s OH&S guidelines, organisational policies and procedures

What we’re looking for

• Deep commitment to anti-oppressive, anti-colonial, healing centred practice

• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively in a lived/ing-experience-led team

• High relational capacity: warmth, compassion, authentic belief in participant experiences and growth potential

• Experience in body-based, narrative, parts, and/or EMDR therapy is highly valued

• Comfort and skill in working with neurodivergent, queer, and people of the global majority [BIPOC] communities

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to respond calmly and effectively to participant distress or dysregulation

• Commitment to ongoing professional development, reflection, supervision, and collective care

What we offer:

• Affirming, supportive and engaging multidisciplinary team environment

• Training and Professional Development Opportunities

• Comfy and Cosy Spaces

• A Social Justice Oriented Team

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