Aod Counsellor Case Manager

3 days ago


Toowoomba, Australia Lives Lived Well Full time

Are you ready to make a real difference for clients on their road to recovery? A difference that’s backed by evidence, and the will to always reach for better? New Graduates are welcome to apply.

At **Lives Lived Well **, we’ve been treating and supporting people whose lives are affected by alcohol and other drugs for over 50 years. We also support people with mental health and gambling concerns and those transitioning from correctional centres. We’re growing fast and building a reputation as a trusted, innovative provider, focused on clinical excellenceand we’d love you to be part of it.

If you share our belief in recovery, think in a curious and critical way, and thrive on learning and change, join us, and do your best work here

**Your opportunity**

You will join our experienced and supportive Toowoomba team of 13 Counsellors. You will have an opportunity to become part of a growing portfolio and receive plenty of training and guidance along the way.

As an **AOD Counsellor Case Manager **, you’ll engage and support your clients in their ongoing management, counselling, and treatment of AOD dependency and other associated factors. You’ll advocate for them, celebrate with them when they achieve their goals, and help to develop their capacity and con?dence to exit residential treatment.

**Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to**:

- Provide high quality engagement, assessment, counselling, and support services to clients, using evidence-based practice principles.
- Manage a case load of clients, through providing support, service coordination, referral, and advocacy to assist client in achieving their goals.
- Work with clients to develop, implement and review individual treatment goals.
- Work with dual diagnosis clients with complex mental health and AOD issues.
- Engage with and develop productive relationships with stakeholders and a diverse population of clients (clients from ages 12 and up)
- Provide culturally appropriate practice as relevant to varying clients
- Articulate and discuss AOD and its associated factors with the team to align service delivery with evidence-based practice
- Actively ensure all procedures and relevant systems are implemented, understood, and adhered to on an ongoing basis

Initially this is a 6-month, part-time role working 3 days per week between Monday and Friday each week. Days of work will be negotiated with the successful applicant. There is a strong possibility that this contract role will be extended.

The gross hourly pay rate for this position is $41.52 - $44.68 per hour, depending on skills, knowledge and experience.

**What you’ll bring
**New Graduates are encouraged to apply
**To succeed in this role, there are some essentials you’ll need**:

- Bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, human services or other related area health services discipline.
- Applied knowledge in contemporary evidence based AOD counselling practice and case management or transferrable skills such as working with clients with co-morbidity and complex trauma.
- The ability to work well independently and as part of a team.
- A willingness to learn and continue to develop your professional practice.
- Highly developed communication and community engagement skills.
- Current Australian issued Drivers Licence.
- A National Criminal History Check, along with a Working with Children Check (e.g., Blue Card).

**While not essential, we’d also love you to have**:

- Experience working with clinical deterioration and dual diagnosis.
- Local knowledge of other networking services

**What matters most is that you’ll live and breathe our values, which means**:

- You are humble, human, and full of hope.
- You show up and share.
- You ask: Why not? And what’s next?
- You leave a positive wake.

Why? We believe that through these values, we do our best work - for each other, for clients, and for the communities we work in. And it’s a promise we make to you about the kind of experience you will have working for us.

**Why work for Lives Lived Well?
**Well, it’s about people, purpose, impact, and growth.

You’ll love working with talented people who share our values. Our services and treatments are as diverse as the communities we work in. And we’ve grown signi?cantly in the past few years, with no plans of slowing down.

**So, what does that mean for you? A real opportunity to go further**
- You’ll grow as a person and as a professional, extending your knowledge and skills beyond the norm.
- You’ll be trusted with autonomy in a supportive, respectful environment.
- You’ll make a lasting impact - on clients, the community and a team that cares as much as you.

**But it’s more than that.
**You’ll join a curious team that thinks differently and seeks new ways. We look to the evidence. We explore new ideas. And when we reach “better”, we ask, “What’s next?” Which means you’ll need to be comfortable with change - you’ll e



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