• Exciting Permanent/Part-time (0.8 FTE) opportunity for an experienced Mental Health & AOD Clinician in partnership with Neami National.
• 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 caring and supportive team.

Windana. Providing connected services to 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.

About the program

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 Step Thru Care service will provide 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.

About the role

Drawing on your disciplinary skills, you will engage with consumers, to provide high quality psychological therapies, and clinical interventions, and where identified, work with the consumers treatment team, their family, friends, and carers aimed at improving mental health outcomes for consumers and help them to recover from the harmful effects of drugs and alcohol.

• Engage consumers and develop trusting and professional relationships.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to form and nurture partnerships with government and non-government mental health, AOD, emergency and community service providers.
• Formal tertiary qualification in Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health Nursing, or Occupational Therapist.
• Completed AOD Skill Set

The team

We're a friendly, dynamic bunch of individuals that value diversity, continuous improvement and collaboration. We support growth and foster an inclusive and diverse workplace with a strong commitment to gender equality, wellbeing and LGBTQIA+ inclusion.

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.