Team Leader

Permanent, Full time Team Leader AOD - Hawthorn based with travel to sites
- Not for Profit with salary packaging benefits & work life balance
- Collaborative and highly skilled supported team environment

**About Us**

**Access Health and Community (AccessHC)** is a leading not-for-profit healthcare provider with over 150 years of experience delivering inclusive, person-centered care across Melbourne’s inner and outer east and northeast. With 500+ staff and 200 volunteers across 17 locations, we offer a wide range of integrated services to support diverse communities. Following our May 2025 merger with Inspiro, we’ve expanded our reach into the Yarra Ranges and strengthened our commitment to accessible, high-quality community health. We value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), uphold strong Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles, and respect the rights of First Nations peoples as we continue to build healthier lives through compassion, collaboration, and community-led care.

**The opportunity**

This is an exciting opportunity to join our thriving community health care organisation and work within a truly supportive value-based culture and engaged workforce at Access Health and Community. We are seeking a passionate and experienced AOD Team Leader to join our enthusiastic and motivated highly skilled multi-disciplinary Alcohol and Other Drug services team. The AOD Team Leader will be an important part of the AOD Leadership team, working closely with the Senior Clinicians and Manager. The role will provide operational leadership and line management to the AOD staff located across Hawthorn, Doncaster, Lilydale and Belgrave sites. This role can be Fulltime or Part time 0.8EFT to accommodate your work life balance.

**About the role**

The AOD Team Leader will provide operational leadership and line management to a multidisciplinary team of AOD staff, including social workers, counsellors, nurse practitioners, peer support workers and AOD Clinicians. This position will work across a range of funding streams, including ECADS, MSRS, Pre-MACNI, Youth and Family Focused. The AOD Team Leader will also hold a caseload offering Comprehensive Assessments, Brief Intervention, Counselling and Care and Recovery Coordination and will work within a recovery-orientated and harm minimisation model which uses a trauma-informed, strengths-based and family inclusive approach to substance misuse.

The AOD Team Leader will use a dual diagnosis framework and ‘no wrong door’ approach in their assessment and treatment of people presenting to our service. Therapeutic interventions may include motivational interviewing, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and relapse prevention. There may also be opportunities to co-facilitate therapeutic AOD and dual diagnosis groups within our service. Although the role will be primarily clinic-based, the small case management/care co-ordination component in this position may include assisting clients to engage with other services (e.g. mental health services) and attending care teams with other professionals. The AOD Team Leader may also be required to attend relevant consortium partnership meetings, professional discipline meetings in relation to the AOD sector and client service provision. Clients of the AOD service can also access a peer support group run by peer facilitators, brief interventions and therapeutic groups as appropriate. All clients who present to the AOD service at Access HC are able to access a range of community-based health services at our organisation.

**What you will be doing**
- Provide day to day line management and operational supervision to the AOD Team, including the approval of timesheets/leave, rostering, individual workplans and other administrative line management duties
- Support staff in the AOD Team to appropriately review and discharge clients to ensure that the service is meeting KPI's
- Provide clinical expertise and secondary consultation to staff and external agencies to assist with appropriate referral, assessment and treatment planning
- Support the Manager with recruitment, induction and training of new staff; lead the induction and on-boarding for all new staff in the AOD Team
- Provide regular updates and feedback to the Senior Clinicians and Management regarding service demand
- Collaborate and communicate with the Senior Clinicians and Management to ensure policy, procedure and best practice guidelines are effectively implemented and followed by the team

**What you will bring**Key Selection Criteria
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in mental health, alcohol and other drugs, social work, psychology or other relevant discipline
- Demonstrated experience working in alcohol and other drugs, mental health, community or similar health services (minimum five years’ experience)
- Demonstrated experience and skill in clinical risk assessment and management
- Demonstrated people ma