Forensic Group Program Counsellor

**Title**:Forensic Group Program Counsellor**:

- Requisition ID: 2318
- Location: Ringwood East, VIC, AU, 3135 Box Hill, VIC, AU, 3128
- Job Posting Date: 28 Jan 2025

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**Forensic Group Program Facilitator Counsellor**
- Temporary part time | 64 hours a fortnight | Experience work-life balance
- Ringwood East location | Car-parking and close to cafes | Community development role
- Expand your skills through a forensic caseload, training & professional development
- Are you ready to make a positive impact on the community and be valued in your career?_
- Join us at Eastern Health_

**Eastern Health**
Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.
Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan - which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.

**About the role**
Turning Point Eastern Treatment Services offer a wide range of AOD treatment modalities in the inner and eastern catchment areas of Melbourne. The KickStart Group Facilitator will form part of a team of clinicians that will deliver a combination of structured therapeutic individual and group program specifically for men who are involved in the justice system where a link has been identified between offending behaviour and substance use. The group program is based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and it supports participants to reduce substance related offending whilst providing a holistic approach for behavioural change. The role will coordinate, deliver and contribute to the evaluation of KickStart Program.

**About you**
To be successful in this role you will possess:

- Qualifications in Alcohol and Other Drugs studies
- An ability to provide initiative and innovation, ability to work in a changing environment with
flexibility and problem solving skills
- Diploma or degree level qualification in Alcohol and Drug studies
- Experience in design and completion of quality projects, clinical audit activities and clinical
research
- At least three years’ experience and demonstrated skills in alcohol and other drug
assessments, withdrawal management, case management and client referral
- Experience in working with forensic clients in group and individual treatment settings
- Proactive coordination of group and individual forensic program activities
- Demonstrated understanding of harm reduction as a key concept underpinning approaches
to client care in the Australian alcohol and drug sector as well as an appreciation of
principles of recovery, including social connectedness, holistic care provision and peer based
examples of wellness
- Experience in the delivery of counselling and care coordination
- A strong commitment to high quality care
- The ability to work as part of a diverse team
- Excellent communication and organisational skills

Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.

**What we offer**

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here
- Diverse and engaging career opportunities
- Friendly & supportive team
- Flexible working hours
- Salary packaging options
- Career progression in our teaching hospitals

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**Good to know**:

- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
- We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
- As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
- Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
- Advertising may end before the closing date.

Please

Contact Person: Teddy Sikhali

Contact Number: 98431288

Job Posting End Date: 28/02/24

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 (Option 1)

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