AOD Clinician & Group Facilitator

• Join our team at a 24/7 AOD Rehabilitation facility located 10 minutes from Pakenham on a 40-acre property with beautiful, serene landscapes.
• Permanent/full-time role working Monday to Friday 8:00am to 4:00pm.
• Amazing and supportive team with lots of learning and development opportunities.
• Generous Salary Packaging provisions to enhance your take-home income.

Windana provides connected services for more people in need.

We provide services across Victoria for adults and young people experiencing alcohol and other drug harms, family violence, mental health challenges and social disadvantage.

Our Model of Care puts clients at the centre of what we do to create positive change in people's lives. We work with families, communities and other organisations to deliver trauma informed, equitable, culturally safe and integrated services based on evidence and practice wisdom.

By intervening early and creating purposeful partnerships, we help clients achieve improved outcomes while reducing demand on acute services. And we are influencing policy, practice and research to help shape better systems for clients. Together, we influence the broader system for a more positive and connected future.

Is this your next career opportunity?

The AOD Clinician is responsible for providing opportunities for residents to identify and address risk taking behavioural patterns and develop lifestyles of self-determined purpose. 

Reporting to the Senior AOD Clinician, the AOD Clinician provides case management to a caseload of up to 15 residents.  This includes individual and group interventions and supporting the resident to meet the goals of their individual treatment plans through appropriate referrals to other agencies.

The AOD Clinician works within a multidisciplinary team to ensure that residents receive the full benefits of the program and that most residents can complete the full program and graduate.

• Develop treatment and intervention plans, aligning them with individual client goals.
• Provide case management, advocacy, referrals support and therapeutic interventions to residents accessing residential rehabilitation services including assessment and interventions to ensure timely and appropriate referrals.
• Provide evidence base therapeutic interventions and programs inclusive of various modalities of individual and group supervision.
• Utilize brief interventions, de-escalation strategies and motivational interviewing and other strategies to motivate residents in treatment.
• Facilitate group interventions focused on a range of treatment modalities including psychoeducation, trauma-informed care, relapse prevention, and other therapeutic interventions when required.
• Maintain comprehensive client documentation and case notes, ensuring accuracy and compliance and capturing relevant details for analysis.
• Support referral to appropriate specialist services and assist clients to exit from the service on achievement of treatment goals.

What we're looking for:

• Strong experience working within the alcohol and drug sector, mental health or other primary health care environment with understanding of AOD service navigation.
• Proven experience conducting assessments, case management and development of client-centred treatment plans with clients with complex needs.
• Demonstrated experience in assessment of clients with complex needs utilising relevant AOD screening tools.
• Excellent case management skills and ability to write clear and professional case notes/handover notes and other essential documentation.
• High level interpersonal and communication skills, including active listening skills and clear speaking skills, with an ability to tailor communicate style to suit the diversity of clients.
• Strong time management skills with an ability to adapt and reprioritise as required based on the needs of the program and residents.
• Proficiency using computer software such as Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook) and client data base system (Mastercare).
• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Youth Work, Mental Health or other similar health-discipline.
• Certificate IV in AOD or 4 AOD core competencies.

Join our team to contribute to our life-changing work.

Our people are integral to the work we do, and we pride ourselves on providing our team opportunities to contribute, grow and thrive:

Contribute to our meaningful work and values-based culture through:

• our Strategic Plan,
• our quality accreditation,
• Reconciliation Action Plan, and
• Rainbow Tick accreditation.

Grow with professional and personal development, including:

• 40 hours of study leave each year
• Support for qualifications, external training and up to $200 towards professional registrations
• Career pathways through secondments and our Leadership Network
• Regular supervision, goal-setting, and individual development plans

Thrive with benefits that support your wellbeing and work-life balance, including:

• 12 weeks paid parental leave from day one
• 15 days personal leave, compassionate, and gender affirmation leave
• 10 days cultural leave for First Nations employees (including 2 paid days)
• Flexible working arrangements tailored to you
• Generous salary packaging to increase your take-home pay
• Retail perks and fitness discounts
• Access to our wellbeing program, including discounted osteopathy treatments.
• WWCC costs covered
• Public holiday swap

Ready to join us?

Be quick! Applications will be reviewed as soon as they land on our desks so apply today if you're interested. 

Windana is committed to child safety and a valid Working with Children Check and Police Check are required for this position.

Windana values and celebrates diversity and inclusion and is an equal employment opportunity employer. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds and life experience to apply. Our aim is to build a team that closely reflects the diversity of the people and communities we work with.