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How It Started

Dan Allen and Ed Ross are Co-founders and Director’s of both TradeMutt and TIACS. 

TradeMutt is a social impact workwear company. They’re known around Australia for their loud, vibrant work shirts which were designed to start conversations about mental health, making an invisible issue impossible to ignore.

Taking a more light-hearted and approachable angle to the conversation, they exist to drive the much needed social and cultural shift in attitude towards mental health among tradies, truckies, farmers, rural and blue-collar workers.

In the past 5 years they’ve grown into a well-recognised and established social impact workwear brand. After launching their conversation starting workwear, they saw how the funky workwear was helping to start important conversations about mental health.

How TIACS was Born

What they soon came to learn is that starting the conversation sometimes means that you need to continue that conversation with a professional.  A professional that you can trust and relate to; is not going to charge you through the nose; wait months until you can connect with them or have to hoop jump for a referral and if you manage to get through all that to be told there’s actually no one available in your location.

TIACS was born through the realisation that there were way too many barriers to free mental health support for the blue-collar community.  Operating since 2020, TIACS provides a professional text and call service with qualified counsellors for free.  Open Monday to Friday between 8.0am – 10.00pm AEST

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How funky workwear breaks down mental health barriers to save lives

When carpenter Daniel Allen lost one of his best mates to suicide, he and his apprentice decided to take action. Their outside-the-box solution was to enter the world of tradie fashion and use funky, high-visibility workwear to start conversations about mental health and take a proactive approach to suicide prevention by providing early intervention support. It’s an inspiring story that reminds us that there is no one way to make a difference in the world and that great loss can, at times, inspire great good. Daniel Allen is a carpenter by trade and the cofounder of the social impact workwear brand TradeMutt and counselling service TIACS.

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Brisbane based headquarters. Work from Home/Office model (minimum 2 days in office & min 3 evening shifts)

Counsellor & Team Leader

TIACS IS LOOKING FOR MORE EPIC HUMANS TO JOIN OUR TEAM!


We’re all about going ‘above and beyond’ for our clients and partners and passionate about
investing in our people and workplace culture.

We are building the most innovative social purpose counselling service in the country and are looking for two positions to join our team:

  • Counsellor
  • Team Leader


TIACS was started by the co-founders of TradeMutt Dan Allen and Edward Ross. TradeMutt and TIACS are connected by their co-founders but serve complimentary but separate responses in changing the mental health landscape, in Australia. TradeMutt prevention focus as a social impact workwear brand is all about starting conversations. That's why every shirt says This Is A Conversation Starter across the back.

Because that's exactly what they're designed to do. TIACS is a not-for-profit social purpose early intervention counselling service. We provide free, professional, confidential and accessible counselling both over the phone and by text to tradies, truckies, farmers, blue-collar community and those who care about them.


TEAM LEADER

  • Ability to lead, guide, mentor and support our counselling team to deliver the appropriate therapeutic approaches in line with our organisational values, operating model and relevant practice and legislative standards.
  • Strong leadership and operational management skills so our counselling team feel they can achieve high quality client outcomes as well as feel supported, heard and informed.
  • Ability to champion organisational priorities in quality and practice development and strategic direction and implement practical strategies for service improvement and staff development.
  • Relevant qualifications in human services discipline (counselling, social work, psychology, etc) recognised by certified governing body (Masters and Degree level and above)
    • Part Time position (must be able to work a minimum of 4 shifts. Evening work is required, generally between 2pm-10pm).
    • Above Award Wage and Excellent Salary Packaging Benefits
    • Brisbane based
    • Work from Home/Office model (minimum 2 days in office)

COUNSELLOR

  • Sound knowledge of contemporary and evidence based mental health counselling theories, practices and techniques particularly in telemental health.
  • Be agile, passionate and committed to personal and organisational excellence.
  • Be a part of our great organisational culture and promote team connection, enjoyment, respect and ability to cheer each other on
  • Counselling qualifications recognised by certified governing body (Masters and Degree level and above)
    • Part Time position (must be able to work a minimum of 3 shifts. Evening work is required, generally between 2pm-10pm).
    • Above Award Wage and Excellent Salary Packaging Benefits
    • Brisbane based
    • Work from Home/Office model (minimum 2 days in office)

Before you apply, we encourage you to visit TIACS and TradeMutt websites and suss us out before pressing send with your resume. You’ll get a sense of what we are looking for and if you’re A game is going to propel our mission and vision.


If you think yep that is something I want to be a part of then send your resume to admin@tiacs.org with a short cover letter (no more than 1 page) telling us why you would be a great addition to our team.

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