Employee Assistance Service

A wide range of supportive psychological health and wellbeing services are available to employees and workplaces. These services may include the following:

Free short term counselling
Manager advice and support
Potentially traumatic incident support, advice and referral
Workshops and presentations on improving communication, enhancing wellbeing, increasing psychological resilience and other organisational issues such as coping with change, time management etc.
Referral to appropriate internal services for advice and assistance
Referral to appropriate external counselling and other services for ongoing support
Consultancy in relation to organisational and workplace wellness programs.

School, Education Regions and regional Early Childhood Education and Care Staff

For staff employed within a School or within an Education Regional Office, including regionally based Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) staff, Employee Assistance services are delivered by internal Employee Advisors.

Employee Advisors across the state are qualified counsellors, psychologists or social workers who are able to provide a range of Employee Assistance and Organisational Wellbeing services and programs.

TAFE Institute, Training Queensland, Employment and Central Office/Brisbane CBD Staff:

For TAFE, Training Queensland, Employment and Brisbane Central Office/CBD staff, including staff based at Coorparoo, Employee Assistance services are provided by external employee assistance service, Davidson Trahaire Corpsych.

Staff in the above locations are able to contact Davidson Trahaire Corpsych directly on their 24 hour telephone number 1300 360 364.

External Employee Assistance Services include free, confidential, short term counselling services, Manager Assist services and Trauma Assist services, post incident and consultancy advice.

Davidson Trahaire Corpsych are also able to provide group workshops and presentations on a range of wellness related topics, on a fee for service basis. For information on their workshop presentations and costs, contact Davidson Trahaire directly or phone the Organisational Health Unit on (07) 3235 4030.

The Davidson Trahaire Corpsych flyer 293k outlines the range of Employee Assistance Services available.

Enhanced Employee Assistance Program services

If you are a current, permanent employee of the Department of Education, Training and Employment and have been made an offer of voluntary redundancy, you may be eligible to receive specialist services, as part of the government's Enhanced Employee Assistance Program.

These specialist programs are available to surplus employees and are designed to assist these personnel with competing in the broader job market.

The Enhanced Employee Assistance Program services available include:

career self-assessment
career planning and coaching
researching and evaluating job opportunities and
a range of proactive job readiness support programs (resume updating, writing job applications, interview skills, etc).

For information on referral to these services, speak with your Regional HR Manager, TAFE HR Manager or with the Principal HR Consultant (Employee Assistance), Organisational Health Unit on telephone (07) 3235 4030.

The attached flyer provides further information about the EEAP program 1.0M.

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This page was last reviewed on 02 Jan 2013