Counsellor

Overview

Habit Health is a nationwide healthcare provider, specializing in the rehabilitation space.

We enable people to live their best lives and empower our teams to realise their full potential.

Are you a compassionate and skilled Counsellor looking to make a real difference in people's lives?

EAP Services, which is part of the wider Habit Group, is seeking a dedicated professional to join our EAP Services team in the heart of Wellington CBD.

This is a rewarding opportunity to support individuals and workplaces with high-quality counselling and wellbeing services, all while working in a collaborative and supportive environment.

This is a permanent position for a counsellor with preferably 5 years post training experience.

Responsibilities

Deliver focused interventions so that clients are equipped with coping mechanisms at work and in life

Visit worksites to provide support after an event disruption

Deliver counselling services via in-person, video and telehealth

Deliver training to customer employees

Benefits

Monthly performance bonus aimed at enhancing your earnings

Reimbursement of annual registration and annual APC costs (pro-rated if part time)

Great team culture with regular social events, weekly treats, award schemes

Well-being initiatives : annual eye exam, flu vaccination, access to EAP services

AI tools and incentives

Provision of enhanced AI tools aimed at boosting your performance : Habit is proud to have introduced Heidi notes for all its clinicians to ensure they have access to the best possible tools to help them excel.

Heidi is an AI medical scribe that automates clinical documentation and decreases administrative work.

This enables you to focus on clinical care and excellence.

In turn, you will be better equipped to make best use of our uncapped incentive programme that enables clinicians to earn an extra performance bonus every single month!

The ideal candidate

A strong sense of others – sensitivity and empathy as core traits

Current APC with NZAC, DAPAANZ, SWRB or NZCCA

Tertiary level 7 Counselling or related qualification and a minimum of five years of post-study experience in general counselling

Knowledge of evidence-based therapy models e.g. SFT, CBT, FACT to provide interventions to children, young adults and adults, including couples counselling, EAP leadership and mentoring and employer-referred mandated programmes

Ability to work independently and attend on-sites for psychological first aid

Experience in trauma intervention, psychological first-aid

If you think you have the experience and can-do attitude to grow with an organisation that rewards your worth, we want to hear from you

Application

For a copy of the position description, please click 'Apply' which will take you through to our Careers website and will activate this link.

Please refer to job no 2153 in your cover letter when applying for this role.

Please email any questions to

EEO and confidentiality

Confidentiality is assured

Habit Health is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity hiring and providing a safe space to people of all cultures, languages, experiences and backgrounds.

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