Alcohol and Other Drugs Worker

6 days ago

Deakin, Australia Karralika Programs Inc Full time

**Shift Work role - rostered shifts including evenings and weekends**:

- **Competitive base salary range from $71 500 - $ 81 000 per annum plus shift penalties plus superannuation plus annual leave loading**:

- **5 weeks annual leave**:

- **Maximise your earning potential with salary packaging options**:

- **Make a difference in the lives of adults and families impacted by alcohol and other drugs**

**About the Organisation**

Karralika Programs Inc has been supporting communities throughout the ACT and NSW for 45 years, providing quality support and intervention services for families and individuals impacted by alcohol and other drugs.

We employ a multidimensional approach to recovery, supporting our clients to learn about themselves behaviorally, cognitively, and emotionally to achieve and sustain positive outcomes for life.

We now have opportunities available for Alcohol and Other Drug Workers to join the team on a full-time basis in Canberra in our Residential Therapeutic Community.

**A Rewarding Role - In More Ways Than One**
- salary range is indicative of base salary only and does not include penalty rates for evening and weekend shifts.

The role is defined as a shift work position and includes five weeks annual leave with leave loading, plus one week public holiday leave in lieu of working rostered public holidays.

The role also comes with a host of additional generous benefits, including:

- **Salary packaging opportunities** to maximise your earning potential (separate meals and entertainment packaging is also available)
- **Clinical Supervision** and **Employee Assistance Program** provided

**How You’ll Make a Difference**:
Karralika Programs is seeking full-time Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) workers. Applications are sought from qualified and experienced workers who support the purpose and values of our organisation and who have relevant qualifications in AOD with mental health and other complex needs, experience, knowledge and skills.

Thie role provides support to people with significant AOD issues who are participating in residential treatment within the Karralika Therapeutic Community including Adult and Family Programs. The position will include evening and weekend shifts on roster, and the position is offered full-time.

For a more thorough list of responsibilities and core duties, please visit our website Karralika.org.au, work with us page.

**What You’ll Bring to the Team**:
You will have a minimum Certificate IV in Alcohol and Other Drugs or an equivalent qualification in other fields including mental health and children's services and experience working with people with complex needs is required. Experience in working within and/or knowledge of the therapeutic community model is an advantage, but not essential.

You will be required to provide a Current National Police Check and hold a Working with Vulnerable People clearance.

You will be joining a supportive team, in a values-based organisation, who sees the potential in every individual. If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you.

**Schedule for this job**
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Weekends

**Additional pay offered**
- Other

**Benefits offered**
- Paid time off
- Casual dress
- On-site parking
- Wellness program
- Employee assistance program

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