• Casual positions available
• Collingwood and Footscray location
• Immediate start

So why cohealth?

We may be a little biased, but we love where we work - really! cohealth aims to provide a rewarding work culture that encourages personal and professional growth. We offer a competitive salary, attractive benefits including Not for Profit ‘Salary Sacrificing' benefits on top of your salary, and career development training opportunities for people who really want to soar! We value recognising the incredible things our teams do and we like to have fun together - so yeah having a great work culture really matters to us here.

About the Role

The role of the Needle and Syringe Program/ Community Development Worker is to deliver effective, friendly and efficient services to clients by:

• Providing safer using and safer sex products
• Providing engagement and support, including advocacy and liaison
• Providing information and referral to appropriate services both within cohealth and externally
• Supporting NSP services as required at sites across cohealth

Your daily duties will be diverse however, will include:

• Providing needles/syringes and other injecting equipment to clients to support safer using
• Promoting safe needle/syringe disposal
• Assist in the operation of the Needle & Syringe Program across cohealth sites including syringe management and outreach work
• Support and assist clients to understand and navigate health and other community services within cohealth and externally
• Maximise opportunities to provide information and education on safer drug use, BBV and STI treatment and prevention

About You

Our ideal candidate for this candidate will have:

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline (e.g. AOD, Community Development, Social Work), Certificate IV or higher with minimum two years relevant work experience. Lived experience will be highly regarded
• Sound knowledge of the health and social issues for people who use drugs such as blood-borne virus prevention, pharmacotherapy treatment, stigma and discrimination
• The ability to assess client need in order to support and assist their navigation of health and other community services within cohealth and externally
• A commitment to the principles of harm reduction
• The ability to establish respectful professional relationships that have clear boundaries with consumers, staff and partner organisations
• The ability to engage with service users in a warm, non-judgemental manner, demonstrate a strong customer service focussed approach and where appropriate engage the client in harm reduction brief interventions, education and/or information and referral

For more information please see Position Description attached.

Applications from people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds; equity target groups including women, people with disabilities, people who identify as LGBTIQ; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged.

The suitable applicant will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks for appointment to positions (including provision of a valid Working with Children Check clearance number and criminal record history check).