Aod Clinician

**Salary Packaging options available, increasing your take home pay**:

- ** Making a positive difference to the lives of the clients we care for**

**Welcome to Windana Drug and Alcohol Recovery LTD, where our mission is to help people rebuild their lives.**

We are a leading Victorian-based drug and alcohol treatment organisation. For more than 30 years, we have been helping people rebuild their lives in a safe, caring environment, supporting our clients wherever they are in the recovery process.

We have an opportunity for an experienced AOD Clinician to join our team located in Nar Nar Goon South on a permanent full-time basis and will require someone who enjoys working onsite. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to further develop their knowledge and skills in AOD to make a meaningful contribution within a purposeful organisation.

**The Role**:
The 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 a Senior AOD Clinician, the AOD Clinician provides case management to a caseload of residents that includes individual and group interventions and supports the resident to meet the goals of their individual treatment plans through appropriate referrals to other agencies. The AOD Clinician works collegially with all staff (team leaders, Support Workers and Peer Workers and Work Program Staff) to ensure that residents receive the full benefits of the program and that most residents can complete the full program and graduate.

**WHAT WE OFFER**
- Working onsite on a 40-acre property with beautiful, serene landscapes surrounded by forest, gardens, and animals
- Competitive salary, plus salary packaging to increase your take home pay
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Join a passionate and supportive team - who will support you at every turn
- Diverse and Inclusive organisation
- Enjoy onsite parking, and access to our Employee Assistant Program
- Ability to transfer your long service from another NFP organisation as part of the portable long service leave scheme

**To be successful in this role, you will have**:

- 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 skills with the ability to build rapport, negotiate and facilitate client outcomes and resolve conflict
- Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Youth Work, Mental Health or other similar health-discipline
- Certificate IV in AOD or 4 AOD core competencies (if obtained a diploma degree or higher), or willingness to complete studies during employment

For a full list of the position responsibilities and key selection criteria, please download the position description.

Windana seeks to be an inclusive and diverse employer. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

**The program**

The Maryknoll Therapeutic Community (TC) is a residential rehabilitation program for residents to recover and heal from their AOD dependence by exploring their own life experiences and learning from the experience and insights of others.

**Our values**
- We are one connected community.
- We are driven by hope.
- We build collaboration through open and honest relationships.
- We pursue learning and growth.
- We are curious and courageous to drive change.
- We are committed to caring without judgement

**Additional requirements**

Please be advised that Windana adheres to Government mandates in relation to COVID-19.