Community Team Leader - Drug & Alcohol Treatment

at  Monash Health

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time
Organisation: Monash Health
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Health and Allied Health, Nursing
Reference: 64980

ABOUT US - MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM

Monash Health Mental Health Services provides a range of community, bed-based and specialist services covering the Casey, Cardinia, Greater Dandenong, Kingston and Monash LGAs – a population of nearly one million. It has an operational budget of $130 million and employs approximately 820 EFT, representing over 1000 staff.The Program has a number of clinical units including three adult units (Casey, Dandenong and Clayton), an Early in Life Mental Health Service (comprising infant, child, and adolescent services), Young Persons’ Mental Health Service, Psychology and Specialist Services (PsySS), Drug & Alcohol service and Gender Dysphoria Clinic. Southern Synergy supports the Mental Health Programs with specialist research innovations.
The program has five PARCS (Prevention and Recovery Care Services) which includes a specialist Women’s only PARCS, an Extended Care PARCS and Youth PARCS. The clinical service is supported by an aligned operational structure to enable the provision of high quality service through the creation of clinical-operational partnerships to support staff, patients, carers and their families, and a strong professional structure that supports the governance of the health professional workforce.

Applications are invited for a dynamic and enthusiastic person to lead the multidisciplinary Drug & Alcohol Treatment Services team. Service components under the management of this role include services that form part of the South East Consortium of Drug & Alcohol Agencies (SECADA) which are assessment, counselling, non-residential withdrawal services, The youth outreach, youth supported accommodation, Alcohol & Drug Liaison Outreach Worker (ADLOW) and the Aboriginal Metropolitan Ice Partnership. Counselling includes both standard and complex presentations, forensic clients either self-referred or referred through ACSO COATS. This position will also maintain a counselling case load of standard and complex counselling clients meeting at least 11 courses of treatment each month.
The position is also required to monitor and liaise with SECADA Services to ensure the effective running of this consortium to the best of the positions ability. The role will also provide support to the Community Services Manager and the Director Clinical Operations and other team leaders maintaining a board understanding of the needs of the service as a whole. Monthly reporting is required of operational management and financial progress to all cost centers within the responsibility of this role along with monthly and quarterly monitoring of KPI’s.
The Team Leader will be responsible for ensuring the provision of high quality, accessible, holistic health care services; using consumer feedback in its development and review. The position will uphold Monash Health, the Drug & Alcohol Services and Mental Health Program’s Vision, Purpose and Values whilst being focused achieving the set Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and financial targets, and the formulation of KPI and financial targets where these have not yet been established. The role expectation includes the operational leadership and management of direct reports of managers and, in conjunction with the unit heads, medical staff within each stream