Youth Aod Clinician

**Introduction**:
Passionate about helping young people? Join our residential youth community house team based in Dandenong.
Permanent/Full-time position working a variety of shifts across days and evenings including weekdays and weekends. Example shifts include 7:00am to 3:00pm, 10:00am to 6:00pm and 1:30pm to 9:30pm.
Salary packaging provisions to enhance your take-home income. Immediate start available.
Windana provides connected services for more people in need.
We provide services across Victoria for adults and young people experiencing alcohol and other drug harms, family violence, mental health challenges and social disadvantage.
Our Model of Care puts clients at the centre of what we do to create positive change in people's lives. We work with families, communities and other organisations to deliver trauma informed, equitable, culturally safe and integrated services based on evidence and practice wisdom.
By intervening early and creating purposeful partnerships, we help clients achieve improved outcomes while reducing demand on acute services. And we are influencing policy, practice and research to help shape better systems for clients. Together, we influence the broader system for a more positive and connected future.
Is this your next career opportunity?
The Youth AOD Clinician is responsible for providing opportunities for residents to identify and address risk taking behavioural patterns and develop lifestyles of self-determined purpose.
Reporting to the Manager of Windana Youth Community House, the Youth AOD Clinician provides case management to a caseload of up to 7 residents. This includes individual and group interventions and supporting the resident to meet the goals of their individual treatment plans through appropriate referrals to other agencies.
Develop treatment and intervention plans, aligning them with individual client goals.
Provide case management, advocacy, referrals support and therapeutic interventions to residents accessing residential rehabilitation services including assessment and interventions to ensure timely and appropriate referrals.
Initiate case management responsibilities, taking on primary responsibility for a caseload of clients.
Provide evidence base therapeutic interventions and programs inclusive of various modalities of individual and group supervision.
Utilizes brief interventions, de-escalation strategies and motivational interviewing and other strategies to motivate residents 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.
Maintain comprehensive client documentation and case notes, ensuring accuracy and compliance and capturing relevant details for analysis.
Support referral to appropriate specialist services and assist clients to exit from the service on achievement of treatment goals.
**What we're looking for**:
Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Youth Work, Mental Health or other similar health-discipline
Certificate IV in AOD or 4 AOD core competencies or willingness to complete studies during employment within first 6 months of employment.
Proven experience conducting assessments, case management and development of client-centred treatment plans with clients with complex needs.
Minimum of two years’ experience working within the alcohol and drug sector, mental health or other primary health care environment with an understanding of AOD service navigation.
Strong interpersonal verbal 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 experience in assessment of clients with complex needs utilising relevant AOD screening tools.
Proficiency using computer software such as Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook) and client data base system (i.e, Mastercare).
Strong professional written case noting skills.
Join our team to contribute to our life-changing work.
Our people are integral to the work we do, and we pride ourselves on providing our team opportunities to contribute, grow and thrive:
Contribute to our meaningful work and values-based culture through our Strategic Plan, our quality accreditation, Reconciliation Action Plan and progress towards Rainbow Tick accreditation. We care about everyone's contribution, so you feel connected, valued and motivated.
Grow through professional and personal development opportunities. We offer regular supervision, goal-setting and individual development plans so you can grow your skills and practice. We also have study leave options, support for obtaining qualifications, career opportunities through secondments, and our Leadership Network.
Thrive with a variety of benefits to support your wellbeing and work-life balance. We offer additional leave days, a broad range of EAP services, generous salary packaging entitlements and more