INTRODUCTION:

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.

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