Aod Counsellor

**Join a dynamic team with supportive leadership**:

- **Part Time (4 days per week), ongoing role**:

- **Based at Glenroy/Hybrid work arrangements**

**About the opportunity**:
As an AOD Counsellor, you will provide trauma informed support to reduce AOD related harms to individuals and their families. You will conduct assessments and provide a range of counselling interventions to assist clients and their family members to change harmful behaviours, increase their capacity to effectively manage the problems they are experiencing associated with AOD use, and promote recovery.

**Click **here** for the position description**

**What’s on offer**:
Join an organisation where we don’t just provide a service. We use our connections, our size, our scale, and our knowledge to push into places where we feel like we should be doing more.

In addition to a SCHCADS Level 4 salary and superannuation, you’ll also receive **17.5% leave loading** and have the ability to increase your take home pay with access to **$15,900 in salary packaging** benefits. Uniting also offers up to **10 weeks paid parental leave** and **staff discount** at Uniting early learning childcare centres/kindergartens.

**About you**:
We are looking for a skilled Counsellor who holds a qualification in Social Work, Psychology, Nursing or other relevant allied health discipline. You will also have:

- Certificate IV in Alcohol and Other Drugs Work or required competencies in AOD,
- qualifications in dual diagnosis OR willingness to undertake
- Demonstrated experience working with AOD or dual diagnosis clients.
- Experience in the provision of assessment and counselling services preferably with AOD or dual diagnosis clients.
- Experience in therapeutic approaches such as: Motivational Enhancement Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Coping Skills Training, Family Inclusive Practice, self-help groups, Community Reinforcement Approaches.

**How to apply**:
**About Uniting**:
At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse range of services across Victoria and Tasmania.

Uniting is also committed to equal opportunity and ensuring the workplace is reflective of the community. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability.