• Full-Time
• Fixed-Term role until June 2024 with possibility of extension
• Rainbow-Tick accredited organisation
• $47.50- $49.65 per hour + Superannuation + NFP Salary Packaging

About the Role:

We are seeking an appropriately qualified AOD Clinician to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in supporting adults and families with AOD concerns, offering high-quality therapeutic support and guidance. As a Senior AOD Clinician, you will play a crucial role in delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions, conducting assessments, providing outreach case management, and collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure the best outcomes for our clients.

The Team:

VincentCare Victoria and The Salvation Army work in consortia to operate the STAR program across the Inner North and North West Catchments. The program aims to reduce AOD related harm to individuals and their families by providing an integrated and holistic service response through Assessment, Counselling and a Care and Recovery outreach approaches.

We work together to support clients through all stages of their journey from crisis to recovery and to lasting and sustainable change.

VincentCare Victoria:

VincentCare Victoria is an award-winning organisation established to provide a range of accommodation and support services to people that are facing disadvantage throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria.

Our aspiration is to be the leader in providing care, hope and advocacy for those facing disadvantage. Our purpose is to create opportunities and lasting change for the most marginalised. VincentCare is well equipped to provide a continuum of services that effectively meet the needs of people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

We lead the way in providing LGBTIQ culturally safe and inclusive services in the homelessness sector. Our work to support LGBTIQ clients and residents has been recognised by awards from the Victorian State Government, the Homelessness Sector, and the LGBTIQ community.

Working with VincentCare:

A key strategic priority is attracting and retaining skilled and committed employees aligned to our values. VincentCare has over three hundred dedicated, talented and enthusiastic staff working across a range of programs and services and offers a number of benefits including:

• Career Development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program
• Salary Packaging
• Choice of Superannuation fund
• Family friendly and flexibility
• Study Leave
• The Ozanam Scholar Bursary

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to the principles of social justice and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion.

First Nations People, LGBTQIA+ people, people with disability, people of colour, public housing residents or people with a lived experience of homelessness are encouraged to apply.

Key Selection Criteria:

You are an appropriately qualified professional with experience in providing comprehensive AOD assessments, counselling and case management and applying relevant therapeutic frameworks to assist clients to achieve positive and lasting outcomes.

You understand health and other treatment services and can work positively to appropriately manage challenging behaviours. You understand the importance of interacting and mediating in ways that respect the equality, diversity, choices, rights, safety and responsibilities of individuals throughout the process whilst also maintaining strong professional boundaries.

You have experience in maintaining constructive, empathetic, supportive and respectful working relationships particularly across primary health, mental health, AOD treatment services and other significant community services for an integrated service response.

Your experience and knowledge also extend to:

• Effectively engaging with people experiencing complex issues
• An ability to manage critical incidents, identify and act upon immediate risk of danger to self and others in both outreach and service-based capacities.
• Highly developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in liaising with other community service organisations for the development of on-going relationships and referral protocols beneficial to client support

How to apply:

Applicants must submit their CV together with a detailed and separate response to each of the key selection criteria in the position description.

The position description can be found below.

If you would like to have a confidential discussion regarding the role please contact Laura Dolan, STAR Clinical Coordinator on 0499 501 208.

VincentCare welcomes applications from people from diverse cultural & linguistic backgrounds including people who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Aboriginal and/ or Torres Strait Islander.

We are committed to the principles of social justice and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion.

All appointments within VincentCare Victoria are subject to satisfactory completion of a police check and character/performance reference checks. Police checks will be undertaken for the selected candidate prior to any job offer being confirmed. Police checks are also undertaken on a periodic basis during the period of employment.

All appointments are subject to disclosure of any relevant employment history of formal disciplinary action for improper or unprofessional conduct taken by current or previous employers or any other integrity body within or outside Australia.

The incumbent for this position must have and maintain a current Victorian Working with Children Check or equivalent.