Counsellor Aod

**1 FTE with a Tuesday afterhours (12pm-8pm) requirement**:

- ** Ongoing**:

- ** Ringwood on the lands of the Wurundjeri People**

**What we offer**

EACH offers staff benefits such as not-for-profit salary packaging, a family-friendly workplace strategy, and support through a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program.

**Who you'll be working with**

You'll be working with a dedicated team of professionals within the Substance Use Recovery (SURe) program, passionate about helping people within the community to take further steps towards their recovery.

**What you'll be doing**

Based in Ringwood, you will work with the Substance Use Recovery Southern Melbourne (SURe) program to:
Provide accessible, high quality, therapeutic AOD counselling and associated health services to the target group; Reduce AOD related harm to individuals and their families to promote recovery; Identify a range of co-occurring mental health, social and primary health issues associated with substance use, and to provide integrated and collaborative counselling and support to address these; Deliver a welcoming, hopeful, strength-based, family-inclusive, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, culturally appropriate, dual diagnosis capable service. Utilising MARAM and trauma informed frameworks support individuals that are experiencing, and using family violence.

**Who we're looking for**
- You'll have completed an appropriate tertiary qualification in Mental Health, Social Work, Psychology and/or AOD related field (degree or higher).
- You will have provided counselling to individuals, families, groups for both voluntary and mandated clients experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance-use related disorders.

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**Additional Information**:
**Next Steps in the Hiring Process**
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**EACH Commitments**
- As a child-safe organisation, EACH prioritizes child safety and well-being by creating a secure environment for children and implementing effective organisational structures, policies, and procedures_