Alcohol & Other Drugs Senior Practitioner

3 hours ago

Fortitude Valley Queensland Australia Brisbane Youth Service Full time $60,000 - $90,000 per year

We support young people and their children who are at risk and experiencing homelessness, to secure and maintain housing, address physical and mental health challenges, establish successful relationships and support networks, and access pathways to education and employment. Find out more at Brisbane Youth Service.

Are you looking for a values-driven role with purpose and meaning? Are you eager to share your expertise and build AOD response capabilities? Provide crisis intervention and harm reduction support to young people in your community

This full-time role of Alcohol & Other Drugs Senior Practitioner provides practice and program leadership to the AOD Program, while managing a caseload of clients with highly complex needs. The AOD Senior Practitioner will support AOD specific training and case consultation to staff across BYS

You'll be a great candidate for this role if you have:

  • A tertiary qualification in Social Work, Human Services, Psychology, Social Sciences, or comparable qualification OR substantial demonstrated experience in a related field.
  • A high level of understanding of young people's alcohol and other drug use and trends and demonstrated ability to implement evidence based psychotherapeutic interventions
  • Experience managing a complex caseload and engaging young people through positive relationships to provide needs assessment, information, advice, brief and crisis intervention, individually negotiated support planning, and advocacy to reduce the harm associated with alcohol and other drug use.
  • The ability to draw upon specialist AOD knowledge to engage in and/or lead multidisciplinary case consultations for BYS employee's to provide a high quality of support to young people
  • Demonstrated ability to develop, implement and evaluate programs including the collection and reporting of client data as required, and appropriate use of allocated funding within budget
  • Demonstrated experience developing networks and collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including government and community service providers

Given the work that we do there will be a few non-negotiables. You'll need to be able to have, or obtain prior to commencement:

  • Working with Children Suitability Card [Blue Card].
  • National Police Check clearance.
  • Evidence of vaccination, immunity, or medical exemption for the following preventable diseases – Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella [Chicken Pox]; Pertussis [Whooping Cough]; and Hepatitis B.

Our people enjoy benefits including salary packaging, flexible working arrangements, and additional annual leave per year (depending on your role).

We value the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community and encourage and celebrate diversity. So, even if you don't think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we'd still love to hear from you

If this sounds interesting, submit your cover letter telling us why you are the right person for this role, along with your resume. If you would like to discuss this position further, please contact BYS directly on or via

Applications for this position close 8:30am Monday 1 December 2025. We may start interviewing for this role prior to the closing date, so don't delay your application.

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