Job Summary
Use your skills to uplift individuals, empower families, and help communities thrive.
Help shape how care is delivered, and make a difference at scale.
SCHADS Level 4, MaxTerm Part time - FTE 0.7 - 53.2 hours a fortnight.
About the Role
Are you passionate about helping people navigate complex challenges and achieve meaningful change in their lives? Do you thrive on building strong connections, working collaboratively, and being part of someone's recovery journey?
We're looking for a dynamic, compassionate, and skilled practitioner to join our team and deliver high‐quality, person‐centred support to clients with complex needs.
Responsibilities
* Provide tailored treatment and support to clients with complex needs, empowering them to take the next steps in their recovery.
* Build strong, effective community partnerships, from GPs and mental health services to hospitals, family services, housing, homelessness support, child protection, financial counselling, employment agencies, and more.
* Strengthen interagency collaboration to create smoother, more accessible recovery pathways.
* Engage clients with empathy, skill, and respect, ensuring a safe, inclusive, non‐discriminatory service experience.
* Deliver coordinated case management that supports the whole person, including families and carers.
* Offer brief interventions and education to community providers, helping build capability across the sector.
Benefits
In addition to your salary of (SCHADS Level 4.1 + super, Maximum Term till 30 June 2027, FTE 0.07), you'll increase your take‐home pay by accessing up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits, which can be used for living expenses such as groceries, bills, clothing, streaming services, and much more.
With our meal entertainment benefit of $2,650 annually, you can save on dining out and drinks, making the most of your pre‐tax dollars.
* Increase your annual leave entitlements through our purchase leave program.
* Be part of a team shaping the future of community services.
* Enjoy a 10% discount at Uniting Early Learning.
* Access training and development opportunities to help you grow.
* Excellent resources to enable you to do your job well.
* Work in a values‐driven organisation deeply committed to social justice and inclusion.
* Opt in or out of public holidays, be respected for your unique background.
Qualifications
* Relevant Health and welfare tertiary qualification (e.g., social work, welfare, social or behavioural science, counselling, nursing) and a qualification in Alcohol and other drugs, or willingness to undertake four core induction competencies within the first 12 months of employment.
* Certificate IV in Alcohol and Other Drugs work (new workers entering the AOD Sector without qualification to have completed or have commenced undertaking).
* Experience delivering a range of counselling modalities and/or supports to this client group (preferred).
* Familiarity with the Alcohol and Other Drug Sector, knowledge of the relationship with the Forensic AOD System and Central Intake Services.
Legal and Equality Information
Uniting is a child‐safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a 'child‐safe' organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and relevant Working with Children Check in your State prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.
Through the recruitment process, we will ask you for personal information. Disclosure is optional, however, it can help us support you better. We invite you to tell us if you identify as Aboriginal, a person with disability, from a diverse background or LGBTQIA+. You will be given an opportunity in the application form to request additional support. We welcome the opportunity to discuss how we can support you.
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