Social & Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner (Male Aboriginal identified)

Help Strengthen Wellbeing, Connection and Community to create meaningful change in people's lives.

We’re seeking a male Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander consultant to join our multidisciplinary clinical team in Western Australia, based in Perth, as a Social & Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) Practitioner. This is an identified position and is only open to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander male candidates*. 

This is an opportunity to be part of a team committed to improving the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, families and communities through culturally safe, trauma-informed and relationship-based practice.

More than a traditional wellbeing support role, you'll work alongside clients, families, communities and multidisciplinary teams to support healing, strengthen cultural identity, advocate across systems and create meaningful, sustainable change. Every day is different, with opportunities to combine direct client work, community engagement, cultural consultation and capacity building.

We'll support you to deepen your expertise and build a career around the work that matters most to you.

This Role May Be Perfect for You If...

• You want a role that combines direct client work with advocacy, community engagement and systems change
• You value culturally safe, trauma-informed and strengths-based practice
• You enjoy building genuine relationships and working collaboratively
• You’re creative, innovative and enjoy thinking outside the box
• You're motivated by continuous learning, reflective practice and creating meaningful outcomes

Why Join SAL Consulting?

At SAL Consulting, we work with children, young people and adults across disability, mental health, education, child protection, out of home care, justice and forensic settings. We support individuals, families, organisations and systems to create meaningful and sustainable change.

We are recognised nationally for our neurodevelopment, attachment and a trauma-informed (©NATI) practice, relationship-based approach and commitment to practitioner development. Our team consistently tells us that the quality of supervision, professional development opportunities and culture are what set SAL apart.

Why Practitioners Choose SAL

• Genuine commitment to addressing the gaps in access and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, and to creating culturally intelligent workplace and service provision
• Industry-leading supervision and mentoring
• Individualised professional development plans
• Monthly internal professional development days
• National communities of practice in a range of areas
• Opportunities to develop areas of expertise and interest
• Support from Leadership teams who remain actively involved in clinical practice
• Genuine career pathways and opportunities to add extra tools to your toolkit across behaviour support, therapy, training, leadership and practice development streams

Team Feedback

What Our Team Say About Working alongside SEWB Practitioners

We believe the impact of SEWB work at SAL is best described by the people who see it every day:

"Kinship and culture have immerse power to drive change for individuals in both indigenous and non-indigenous settings.”

“Working alongside our SEWB practitioners has fundamentally reshaped how I understand and respond to behaviour. It has challenged me to move beyond a purely clinical lens and to sit more deeply with meaning, context, and cultural identity.”

“Administering psychological assessment can often feel quite clinical and, at times, misaligned with Aboriginal culture and best practice. Having an SEWB practitioner walk alongside has made a meaningful difference, supporting clients to feel more comfortable throughout the assessment, to understand the need for the assessment, and build strong relationships.”

“It also encourages space for yarns to happen naturally, so the assessment feels less like a procedure and more like a shared journey.”

“I am humbled by the resonance of unspoken knowing and profound connection. Even when dealing with the most complex situations, while everyone else may feel unsure, the SEWB practitioners walk in with a grounded way of knowing, being and doing that is quite simply something I strive to embody.”

“I’m proud to be part of an organisation that takes relationships, knowledge sharing, and caring for each other and Country seriously. Continuing this legacy of genuine partnership with First Nations peoples matters deeply. We have so much to learn from them, and so much to gain by listening.”

What This Means for You

When people join SAL, they often tell us they stay because they find:

• A genuinely supportive and collaborative culture
• Supervisors who are invested in their growth
• Meaningful professional development opportunities
• Interesting and diverse work that keeps them learning
• Opportunities to contribute and shape their career pathway
• A workplace that values relationships, wellbeing and long-term development

What You’ll Be Doing

You'll combine direct client work, community engagement, cultural consultation and capacity building and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Your work will include:

• Conducting holistic assessments exploring wellbeing, strengths, culture, identity and social context
• Supporting clients through culturally safe yarning, wellbeing planning and therapeutic conversations
• Working collaboratively with families, Elders, communities and multidisciplinary teams
• Advocating for clients across health, disability, education, justice and community services
• Providing cultural guidance and delivering education, consultation and capacity building for colleagues and partner organisations
• Contributing to multidisciplinary assessments, projects and community co-design initiatives
• Identifying and developing resources to assist in the appropriate cultural support of clients

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for practitioners who are:

• Passionate about culturally responsive practice
• Relationship-focused and collaborative
• Curious, reflective and committed to ongoing learning
• Motivated by improving outcomes for individuals, families and communities
• Comfortable working within and between Aboriginal ways of knowing, being, and doing, and Western clinical and service systems, contributing to integration of service provision in the two contexts
• Committed to trauma-informed, strengths-based practice

What We Offer

• A job that respects cultural obligations in the workplace (including around Sorry Business and Ceremonial and kin obligations)
• An opportunity to draw upon your lived and learned experience, SEWB and cultural knowledge in a meaningful way to effect change
• Flexible working hours and a genuinely family-friendly culture
• Work from home for administration and report writing
• Travel allowance included in remuneration for community-based work
• An additional week of annual leave on top of the National Employment Standards entitlement
• Access to the Flare benefits platform with discounts across a wide range of retailers and services
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing confidential counselling and wellbeing support
• A comprehensive induction program
• Regular supervision and ongoing support, including cultural supervision
• Genuine opportunities to shape your own career direction
• Ongoing professional development and investment in your growth
• Opportunities to further develop skills in behaviour support, training, therapy, leadership and practice development streams

Mandatory Requirements

• Due to cultural protocols, we are seeking an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander male to work alongside our team and directly with the clients one-on-one, providing social and emotional wellbeing and behaviour support to adult men, young men and children across all of our service areas*
• Qualification (Certificate I or higher) in Indigenous Health or in a field relevant to human services
• Current Australian Driver's Licence
• Current Working with Children Check and NDIS Worker Screening, or the ability to obtain these prior to commencement

*SAL Consulting considers that being an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander male is a genuine occupational requirement for this position under sub-s 35(1)(b)(ii) of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1996. 

Essential Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated understanding of health and social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• Ability to effectively engage and maintain relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across language groups and communities
• Ability to communicate an understanding of clients' needs and goals, leveraging both lived and learned experience

Highly Regarded

• Experience working in disability, mental health, child protection, justice or community services
• Experience working collaboratively with families, support networks and multidisciplinary teams to achieve outcomes in everyday environments
• Experience in developing resources to assist in the appropriate cultural support

About SAL Consulting

SAL Consulting works with complex individuals, families, systems and organisations across Australia. Our multidisciplinary team provides services across psychology, behaviour support, occupational therapy, speech pathology, clinical supervision, training, cultural consultancy and organisational development. We are recognised for our leadership in neurodevelopmental, attachment and trauma-informed (©NATI) practice and maintain strong national and international partnerships that keep our work informed by current evidence. We are also NDIS registered, NMT accredited, an RTO and provide psychological services under Medicare. 

How to Apply

Please submit a current CV and a short cover letter outlining your interest in the role and how your background and experience aligns with our work.

Applications are assessed as they are received and we may appoint before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged. 

Questions?

Julia Georgopoulos
People & Culture Officer

Email: julia.georgopoulos@salconsulting.com.au
Mobile: 0499 702 355