Aod Support Worker

**Salary Packaging options available, increasing your take home pay**:

- ** Making a positive difference to the lives of the clients we care for**

**Welcome to Windana Drug and Alcohol Recovery LTD, where our mission is to help people rebuild their lives.**

We are a leading Victorian-based drug and alcohol treatment organisation. For more than 30 years, we have been helping people rebuild their lives in a safe, caring environment, supporting our clients wherever they are in the recovery process.

**The Role**:
The Support Worker ensures the Therapeutic Community (TC) is a safe and supportive environment for residents to participate in AOD rehabilitation treatment. The role provides support and care for residents, performs administration duties, and ensures ‘community as method' is evident through role modelling and enacting a rational authority role

**WHAT WE OFFER**
- Working onsite on a 40-acre property with beautiful, serene landscapes surrounded by forest, gardens, and animals
- Competitive salary, plus salary packaging to increase your take home pay
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Join a passionate and supportive team - who will support you at every turn
- Diverse and Inclusive organisation
- Enjoy onsite parking, and access to our Employee Assistant Program
- Ability to transfer your long service from another NFP organisation as part of the portable long service leave scheme

**To be successful in this role, you will have**:

- Experience working within the AOD or mental health sector and ability to navigate and understand AOD services
- Case management skills and ability to write clear and professional case notes/handover notes and other essential documentation
- Diploma in a health-related discipline (e.g., social work, youth work, mental health, psychology or similar).
- Certificate IV (Four AOD Competencies for applicants with health-related degrees) or Diploma in AOD and Mental Health or the capacity to complete studies whilst in employment.

For a full list of the position responsibilities and key selection criteria, please download the position description.

Windana seeks to be an inclusive and diverse employer. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

**The program**

The Maryknoll Therapeutic Community (TC) is a residential rehabilitation program for residents to recover and heal from their AOD dependence by exploring their own life experiences and learning from the experience and insights of others.

**Our values**
- We are one connected community.
- We are driven by hope.
- We build collaboration through open and honest relationships.
- We pursue learning and growth.
- We are curious and courageous to drive change.
- We are committed to caring without judgement

**Additional requirements**

Please be advised that Windana adheres to Government mandates in relation to COVID-19.