
Aod Clinician- Hawthorn
2 days ago
Full Time or Part Time 0.8EFT, Hawthorn and Doncaster
- Not for Profit with salary packaging benefits & work life balance
- Collaborative and highly skilled supported team environment
**About Us**
Access Health and Community, with a 150-year legacy of compassionate care, is on a mission to build healthier lives together. Our team of over 400 dedicated employees and 200 volunteers, serves across 18 locations. We are thrilled to announce our upcoming merger with Inspiro, a trusted partner in community health. Inspiro, with a skilled team of 100, is dedicated to providing accessible, inclusive, and high-quality care in the Yarra Ranges. This merger strengthens our commitment to delivering exceptional care and opens up new opportunities for our team and the communities we serve.
**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 suitably qualified Alcohol and Other Drug Clinician to join our enthusiastic and motivated highly skilled multi-disciplinary Alcohol and Other Drug services team. You will work with adults to provide assessment, therapeutic counselling and care & recovery co-ordination. This role includes work with voluntary and mandated (forensic) clients. Some clients may engage in individual therapeutic counselling, whilst others may require a combination of counselling and care co-ordination based in local community areas of Hawthorn and Doncaster East. This role can be Fulltime or Part time 0.8EFT to accommodate your work life balance.
**Abo**ut the role**
The AOD Clinician 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 clinician 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 Clinician 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**
- Conduct high quality comprehensive and client-centred assessments (including risk assessment) of clients presenting to the AOD service, using Department of Health and Human Services AOD assessment tools and other relevant assessment tools and outcome measures as appropriate
- Conduct screening for mental health and other co-occurring conditions where appropriate, using a dual diagnosis framework
- Develop and implement collaborative Individual Recovery Plans and treatment plans with clients and families based on a comprehensive assessment, to support treatment goals and recovery.
- Facilitate and complete referrals to other health, mental health AOD and welfare support services where appropriate (including residential withdrawal, rehabilitation and supported accommodation)
- Conduct assessment of forensic clients, including DDAL, CISP and CREDIT Bail assessments where required
- Participate in clinical review, peer supervision case conferencing, intake and allocation meetings in the AOD team as required.
**What you will bring**
- Key Selection Criteria_
- Tertiary qualifications in Alcohol and Other Drugs or related discipline or a minimum of 3 years demonstrated experience working with adults and families in the AOD sector
- Recognised tertiary qualifications in psychology, social work, counselling or related field, with demonstrated skills, training and experience in therapeutic counselling interventions
- Demonstrated understanding of AOD and dual diagnosis treatment principles. Skills and experience in a range of AOD interventions relating to substance use (including assessment, brief intervention, clinical risk assessment and management, family support, therapeutic counselling and case management/care coordination)
- Demonstrated high level of knowledge and understanding of the AOD treatment sector, the mental health sector and community support services
- Demonstrated serv
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