Mental Health and AOD Clinician

Job Type: Part-time

Location: Geelong

Job Category: Alcohol and Other Drugs

• Exciting Permanent/Part-time (0.8 FTE) opportunity in partnership with Neami National.
• Choose 4 days of week that best suit your lifestyle Ideal work hours of 8:30am to 4:30pm.
• SCHADS Level 5 with Salary packaging options to enhance your take-home income.
• Immediate start available. Based at Neami National's fabulous office in Geelong with a wonderful supportive team.

Windana provides connected services for more people in need.
We provide services across Victoria for adults and young people experiencing alcohol and other drug harms, family violence, mental health challenges and social disadvantage.

Our Model of Care puts clients at the centre of what we do to create positive change in people's lives. We work with families, communities and other organisations to deliver trauma informed, equitable, culturally safe and integrated services based on evidence and practice wisdom.

By intervening early and creating purposeful partnerships, we help clients achieve improved outcomes while reducing demand on acute services. And we are influencing policy, practice and research to help shape better systems for clients. Together, we influence the broader system for a more positive and connected future.

Is this your next career opportunity?
The Step Thru Care – Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) model is a partnership-led service delivery model intended to address independent and co-occurring Mental Health and AOD support needs across western Victoria.

The service provides a holistic approach to care, addressing a range of social, physical, and emotional needs informed by Collaborative Relational Practice (CRP) and supported by best practice in evidence-based and evidence informed care.

The Mental Health & AOD Clinician will work as part of a multi-disciplinary recovery-focused team. Drawing on your disciplinary skills, you will engage with consumers, to provide high quality evidence based psychological therapies, and clinical interventions, and where identified, work with the consumers treatment team, their family, friends, and carers aimed at improving mental health and Alcohol and other Drug outcomes for consumers.

• Provide brief and detailed assessment and collaborative treatment plans to consumers.
• Provide individual evidence based psychological therapies as required & clinical interventions to individuals and their families/supports.
• Engage consumers, using a strengths-based approach to complete a mental health status measurement and an assessment to determine level of care.
• Utilise brief interventions, de-escalation strategies and motivational interviewing and other strategies to motivate consumers in treatment.
• Facilitate group interventions focused on a range of treatment modalities including psychoeducation, trauma-informed care, relapse prevention, and other therapeutic interventions when required.
• Work within a holistic framework considering the needs of the consumers, family, carers, and other members of the community to ensure tangible outcomes.
• Support referral to appropriate specialist services and assist consumers to exit from the service on achievement of treatment goals. The objective of Exit Planning is to minimise the risk of relapse of the consumers following leaving.
• Work closely with the Step Thru Care multi-disciplinary team to deliver the best possible comprehensive service to consumers.
• Maintain strong working partnerships with the public and private Mental Health and AOD Services to ensure a collaborative approach to intake, escalation and exit and the effective operation of Step Thru Care Service.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years' experience in AOD & Mental Health.
• Proven clinical experience to apply evidence-based psychological therapies/interventions including understanding of theoretical concepts within mental health and AOD sciences and their application to mental health and AOD issues and problems.
• Experience working as a member of a multi- disciplinary team with the ability to inspire and facilitate team commitment and cooperation.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport, negotiate and facilitate client outcomes and resolve conflict with a diverse group of people with complex needs using compassion.
• Demonstrated ability to form and nurture partnerships with government and non-government mental health, AOD, emergency and community service providers.
• Knowledge of local services particularly relevant to designated program area.
• Formal tertiary qualification in Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health Nursing, or Occupational Therapist.
• Completed a Certificate IV in AOD or 4 AOD core competencies.

Join our team to contribute to our life-changing work.
Contribute To Our Meaningful Work And Values-based Culture Through

Our people are integral to the work we do, and we pride ourselves on providing our team opportunities to contribute, grow and thrive:

• our Strategic Plan ,
• our quality accreditation ,
• Reconciliation Action Plan , and
• our progress towards Rainbow Tick accreditation .

Grow With Professional And Personal Development, Including

• 40 hours of study leave each year
• Support for qualifications, external training and up to $200 towards professional registrations
• Career pathways through secondments and our Leadership Network
• Regular supervision, goal-setting, and individual development plans

Thrive
with benefits that support your wellbeing and work-life balance, including:

• 12 weeks paid parental leave from day one
• 15 days personal leave, compassionate, and gender affirmation leave
• 10 days cultural leave for First Nations employees (including 2 paid days)
• Flexible working arrangements tailored to you
• Generous salary packaging to increase your take-home pay
• Retail perks and fitness discounts
• Access to our wellbeing program, including discounted osteopathy treatments.
• WWCC costs covered
• Public holiday swap

Ready to join us?
Be quick Applications will be reviewed as soon as they land on our desks so apply today if you're interested.