Experience

CQUniversity

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Lecturer in Social Work

  • Dec 2009 - Present



Centacare

• Rockhampton

• Clinical Social Worker

  • Dec 1993 - Nov 2009

  •Generalist counsellor providing therapeutic assessment and intervention to children and youth; family therapy assessment and intervention; adult personal counselling and relationship counselling. •Development and facilitation of therapeutic workshops for children who had experienced grief/loss through parental separation/death; for children who have witnessed domestic violence and for women who have been sexually abused. •Co-facilitation of parenting program for men in prison. •Development of workshops to facilitate the formation of a ‘whole school approach’ bullying policy for implementation in secondary schools. •Development and implementation of educative workshops for secondary school students •Group work with young people to resolve peer conflict, explore developmental concerns, etc. •Facilitating Centacare team development exercises. •Chairperson of ‘The Depot’ management committee. •Networking with Anglicare and Community Health, Yeppoon to establish and run therapeutic grief and loss program for children who have experienced parental separation/death. •Co-ordination of therapeutic workshops for children who have experienced grief/loss through parental separation/death. This involved enlisting volunteers to assist in the facilitation of these workshops; providing training to volunteers; providing parent information nights; evaluation and improving the delivery of the program. Seven week program delivered twice a year, with four groups running concurrently in Rockhampton and one in Yeppoon. •Supervision of volunteers assisting with the facilitation of a grief and loss program for children. •Participating in peer group supervision in both small and large groups ensuring practice continued to meet the standards of both the organisation and social work. Show less