Mental Health Professional

Overview

Job Title: Mental Health and AOD Clinician
Location: Geelong, AU
Job Category: Alcohol and Other Drugs, Mental Health
We are seeking an experienced Clinician to join our team at Neami National in partnership with Windana. Work hours of 8:30am to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday.
SCHADS Level 5 salary packaging options available. Immediate start.
Based at Neami National's office in Geelong with a wonderful supportive team.
We provide connected services for people in need across Victoria, delivering trauma informed, equitable, culturally safe, and integrated services based on evidence and practice wisdom.
The Step Thru Care – Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) model is a partnership-led service delivery model intended to address independent and co-occurring Mental Health and AOD support needs across western Victoria.
The service provides a holistic approach to care, addressing a range of social, physical, and emotional needs informed by Collaborative Relational Practice (CRP) and supported by best practice in evidence-based and evidence-informed care.
The Mental Health & AOD Clinician will work as part of a multi-disciplinary recovery-focused team. Drawing on your disciplinary skills, you will engage with consumers, to provide high quality evidence-based psychological therapies, and clinical interventions, and where identified, work with the consumers' treatment team, their family, friends, and carers aimed at improving mental health and Alcohol and other Drug outcomes for consumers.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide brief and detailed assessment and collaborative treatment plans to consumers.
Provide individual evidence-based psychological therapies as required & clinical interventions to individuals and their families/supports.
Engage consumers, using a strengths-based approach to complete a mental health status measurement and an assessment to determine level of care.
Utilise brief interventions, de-escalation strategies, and motivational interviewing and other strategies to motivate consumers 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.
Support referral to appropriate specialist services and assist consumers to exit from the service on achievement of treatment goals. The objective of Exit Planning is to minimise the risk of relapse of the consumers following leaving.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
5+ years' experience in AOD & Mental Health.
Proven clinical experience to apply evidence-based psychological therapies/interventions including understanding of theoretical concepts within mental health and AOD sciences and their application to mental health and AOD issues and problems.
Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport, negotiate, and facilitate client outcomes and resolve conflict with a diverse group of people with complex needs using compassion.
Demonstrated ability to form and nurture partnerships with government and non-government mental health, AOD, emergency, and community service providers.
Knowledge of local services particularly relevant to designated program area.
Formal tertiary qualification in Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health Nursing, or Occupational Therapist.
Completed a Certificate IV in AOD or 4 AOD core competencies.
Benefits:
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

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