Employee Assistance Service

The Department of Education and Training's Employee Assistance Service (EAS) provides a range of supportive psychological health services to employees.

For staff employed within a school, education regional office or with early childhood education and care (ECEC), services are delivered by Employee Advisors. For staff employed with TAFE, Training and Brisbane Central Office/CBD, including Coorparoo. Employee assistance services are provided by an external counselling service. Services include free short-term confidential counselling, post incident intervention (critical and/or traumatic incident), presentations and group work. These services assist individuals and groups to increase psychological resilience, improve communication, develop positive work relationships and enhance well-being.

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

The Employee Advisors across the state are qualified counsellors, psychologists or social workers. Employee Advisors service particular regions and may use external psychologists under extenuating circumstances to provide some counselling sessions.

TAFE Institute, Training Regional Office, Disability Support Service and Central Office/Brisbane CBD Staff:

The external counselling servce, including psychological counselling and post incident intervention (critical and/or traumatic incident) is provided by Davidson Trahaire Corpsyche.

This web site aims to assist in the provision of employee assistance services by:

Providing information relating to employee assistance
Providing contact details for the service
Providing resources and links related to mental health and wellbeing of individuals and workplaces
Providing resources to help support staff and leaders within the Department.

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This page was last reviewed on 21 Sep 2011