Care and Recovery Worker

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

- ** Contribute to the development of an intergrated AOD/Mental Health service.**

**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.

We are currently seeking motivated and experienced Care and Recovery Workers to join our Community Services team to contribute to the development and delivery of high-quality care services to our clients. We have 2 permanent full-time positions available located in Geelong. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of an intergrated AOD/Mental Health service.

**The Role**

Directly responsible to the Program Coordinator Community Services at Windana, the Care and Recovery Worker will collaborate with the multi-disciplinary regional Care Partnership team, inclusive of clinicians from both AOD and mental health sectors.

The Outreach Care and Recovery worker role utilizes the full suite of Assessment and Screening tools including those developed by Turning Point on the behalf of the Victorian Government including the MARAM framework to supply client centric recovery planning. The development of this plan must be considerate of the RCP teams broader goals and objectives of supporting clients need and the goals and values of the RCP

**The Program**

**Regional Care Partnership Geelong - Otway's.**

This role works within the Regional care Partnership (RCP) Geelong Otway's. The consortium partners, Neami, Windana, Drummond Street, and Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative collectively provide primary mental health and AOD services through a collaborative service model.

**WHAT WE OFFER**
- Competitive salary, plus salary packaging to increase your take home pay
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Join a fun, passionate, supportive, and inclusive team of people - who will support you at every turn
- 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

**Who we're looking for**

**The person we're looking for will have**:

- Experience in the field working with clients with substance misuse problems, their families or carers
- Awareness of legislation affecting Windana services e.g. Equal Opportunity, Mental Health, Disability Services, Children and Young People's Act
- Understanding of case work and AOD interventions within the context of a harm reduction, family work and recovery philosophies.
- Knowledge of the forensic drug and alcohol treatment system.
- Capacity to work with people with co-occurring AOD and psychiatric presentations & people involved in the criminal justice system.
- Capacity to work with people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
- Completion of Certificate IV (Four AOD Competencies for applicants with health-related degrees) or Diploma in AOD and Mental Health.

For a full list of the position responsibilities and the 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.

**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.