Aod Counsellor

**Salary Packaging options available, increasing your take home pay**:

- ** Make a difference, help rebuild lives of our clients**

**Welcome to Windana Drug and Alcohol Recovery LTD, where our mission is to help people rebuild their lives.**

We are a leading Victorian-based drug and alcohol treatment organisation. For more than 30 years, we have been helping people rebuild their lives in a safe, caring environment, supporting our clients wherever they are in the recovery process.

**The Role**

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced AOD Counsellor to join our Community Services team located in St Kilda. You will play a critical role in reducing AOD related harms by conducting assessments and providing a range of counselling interventions that increase clients' capacity to effectively manage the problems they are experiencing associated with AOD use and to promote recovery. This is a permanent part-time position and you will be required to work on site.

**WHAT WE OFFER**
- Competitive salary, plus salary packaging to increase your take home pay
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Join a fun, passionate, supportive, and inclusive team of people - who will support you at every turn
- Access to our Employee Assistant Program
- Ability to transfer your long service from another NFP organisation as part of the portable long service leave scheme

**Who we're looking for**

**The person we're looking for will have**:

- Capacity to provide counselling, AOD interventions within the context of a harm minimisation and recovery philosophy, and skills in a range of counselling approaches relevant to individual and group therapeutic work.
- Solid knowledge of the forensic drug and alcohol treatment system and the treatment models that are effective and utilised in this space.
- Capacity to work with people with co-occurring AOD and psychiatric presentations & people involved in the criminal justice system.
- Capacity to work with people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

For a full list of the position responsibilities and the key selection criteria, please download the position description.

Windana seeks to be an inclusive and diverse employer. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

**The program**

Community Services

Community Services includes Family Services, Art Therapy, Windana Health and Healing, Counselling, Care and Recovery Coordination, Harm Reduction and Peer Support Group.

**Our values**
- We are one connected community.
- We are driven by hope.
- We build collaboration through open and honest relationships.
- We pursue learning and growth.
- We are curious and courageous to drive change.
- We are committed to caring without judgement

**Additional requirements**

Please be advised that Windana adheres to Government mandates in relation to COVID-19.