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Counsellor

12/06/2025
10/07/2025
Permanent - Full Time
Otago Central - Queenstown - Grant Road
Health, Medical & Pharmaceutical

Job Description

Habit Health is a nationwide healthcare provider, specialising in the rehabilitation space. We enable people to live their best lives and empower our teams to realise their full potential.

The Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is part of the wider Habit Health Group. Our values are our people, enabling us to provide confidential services to employees across work/life issues. Our Queenstown branch is seeking an empathetic, experienced Counsellor for a fulfilling opportunity in generalist counselling. We are looking for an experienced Counsellor who specialises in  brief intervention and has work on matters related to youth, couples, grief, addiction and trauma to name a few. 

Main responsibilities:  

  • Deliver focused interventions so that clients ace coping mechanisms at work and life
  • Visit worksites to provide support after an event disruption
  • Deliver counselling services via in-person, video and telehealth
  • Deliver training to customer employees 

The benefits of working with us:

  • Role focuses on employee care and intervention – say goodbye to admin and paperwork!
  • Annual budget set aside for professional development / study
  • Permanent full-time role with clear career progression
  • Great team culture with regular social events, weekly treats, award schemes
  • Well-being initiatives: annual eye exam, flu vaccination, access to EAP services 

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 – we’re looking for sensitivity and empathy as 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 is required.
  • Knowledge of evidence-based therapy models e.g. SFT, CBT, FACT is desirable
  • Can 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 make it even bigger with an organisation that rewards your worth, we want to hear from you!
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 2014 in your cover letter when applying for this role.

If you have any questions, email HR@Habit.co.nz

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.