Join our Team

• Provide quality therapeutic & mental health intervention support to LGBTIQA+ community members

• Permanent role | Part time 22.8 hours/week 

• Abbotsford Location

 

 

 

Mind Australia is one of Australia’s largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives. Operating for more than 45 years and employing more than 1,300 staff around Australia, Mind is a leading employer of people with lived experience of mental health challenges, recognising their unique ability to connect with and motivate clients and guide recovery.

 

 

The Aftercare program, funded by the Victorian Government Department of Health, offers a safe place of healing and support for people from the LGBTIQA+ community who are having thoughts or intentions of suicide. Aftercare offers short-term (up to three months), queer and peer-led, practical outreach and counselling-based support for community members, families and loved ones at no cost to find inclusive, affirming care and strategies for moving forward following a suicide crisis.

 

We are seeking a compassionate, experienced LGBTIQA+ Counsellor for a permanent, part time (22.8 hours per week) opportunity in the Abbotsford area. You will provide quality therapeutic and mental health intervention support to LGBTIQA+ community members who experience thoughts of suicide and can have complex care needs. You will hold a case load with community members and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team across sites with other practitioners.

 

 

• Provide comprehensive and flexible therapeutic support service to community members including knowledge of initial and ongoing assessment, psychological support, Alcohol and other drug support for people experiencing substance use challenges

• Have confidence in working with community members who experience thoughts of suicide.

• Apply professional judgement to complex situations, adapting counselling practice based on the needs of the community member 

• Understand peer work frameworks as applied to allied health work and draw on your lived experiences of suicidality and as a member of the LGBTIQA+ community to inform your work and that of the team.

• Actively work alongside peer practitioners to ensure complementary, respectful, collaborative peer and queer-led approaches to suicide care.

 

 

What you’ll bring 

• Tertiary degree qualifications in Mental Health, Psychology, Counselling, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Health Science, Nursing or other health related field as designated by Mind.

• Able to obtain registration with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) or equivalent accreditation.

• A minimum of five years’ experience and expertise in working directly with people in the LGBTIQA+ community with mental health issues, and/or with their families and carers.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to consult, negotiate and influence peers, stakeholders and government agencies with diplomacy to achieve effective outcomes.

 

 

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child care, car leasing expenses etc.)

• Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.

• Generous leave entitlements including 8 weeks paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading.

• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.

• Professional development through regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor

 

 

To apply visit Mind Careers - reference number 498529. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Sunday 2 November 2025. Please contact the person below for more information. 

 

 

 

Tristan CadmanGibbings – Acting Senior Lived Experience Project Manager 

 

 

 

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at hr@mindaustralia.org.au

 

 

 PD LGBTIQA+ Counsellor (Aftercare) 20251016.pdf