Aod Practice Lead

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: $50 - $60

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 2517

**_Are you a current Austin Health employee?_**
- AOD Practice lead
- opportunity to join a new role here within ICYMHS
- Exciting new senior clinical leadership role to work directly and indirectly with young people, their families and carers where there are existing mental health and substance use issues (Dual Diagnosis).
- Act as a role model / mentor to staff in providing evidence-based practice in their work with young people
- Work collaboratively with the Lived & Living Experienced Workforce (LLEW) and have a strengths based recovery focus to the integrated care provided.
- Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Care
- Support Access to Mental Health and Community Support Services

**About Austin Health**

Austin Health is a leading public health service in Victoria, delivering world-class healthcare to a diverse community across a range of services. Our commitment to providing exceptional care spans across several hospitals, including Austin Hospital, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, and the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre. Our vision is to improve the quality of life for our community through innovative, compassionate, and holistic care.

**About the Role**

The purpose of this position is to support existing community based and bed-based services within the Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS) within the Austin Health Mental Health Division, across all campuses
- Heidelberg ( 2 campuses), MacLeod and Epping. The roles will implement integrated treatment, care and support for people with co-occurring mental illness and substance use and addiction as per guidance from Department of Health publications (2022). The role is a capacity building role that will support practice improvements across the service.

A regular day will see you:

- Work closely with service leaders and clinicians to ensure that substance use issues are clearly identified and considered in treatment planning / and that care is person-centred, holistic, and responsive and well co ordinated.
- Support consumers to access mental health services and other relevant community resources to assist in their ongoing treatment and recovery.

**About You**

You will bring:

- Substantial experience of the AOD sector
- A strong understanding of the Victorian public mental health system and relevant legislation.
- A deep understanding of recovery-focused care and an ability to work from a strengths-based approach across dual diagnosis.
- Willingness to participate in ongoing training and supervision as part of your role.
- Highly effective communication skills and the ability to engage with staff capacity building their skills and knowledge in the AOD area.
- A commitment to ensuring safe, best-practice care that puts consumers at the heart of the decision-making process.

What you need.
- A relevant qualification and current AHPRA registration.
- Australian working rights.
- The desire to work collaboratively as part of a multi disciplinary team

If you're dedicated to delivering compassionate, patient-centred care and want to make a real difference in the lives of young people, we encourage you to apply. Join us at Austin Health and be part of a dynamic team committed to transforming lives through mutual support, understanding, and recovery.

**Our benefits**

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring and career development opportunities
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport and car parking

**Work with us**

**Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the**position description**for further details.**

**Application closing date: 4 February 2025