Case Worker – Maroochydore

WHO WE ARE

Drug Awareness Rehabilitation and Management (Drug ARM) is a not for profit organisation committed to reducing harms associated with alcohol and other drug use. Drug ARM has been a specialist provider of alcohol and other drug services since 1980 and currently operates throughout Queensland and parts of New South Wales.

Our vision of flourishing peoples and communities living free from the harms of alcohol and other drugs is achieved through our commitment to delivering the highest standard of awareness rehabilitation and management solutions.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Case Workers will attend defined Community Corrections offices from 9.00am 5.00pm on agreed days between Monday to Friday (excluding Public Holidays) and will offer one (1) hour appointments on the designated days. The Objective of the Program is to provide a drug and alcohol counselling delivered in accordance with Harm Minimisation the Bio-psychosocial model and a Recovery Framework approach. The workers will be required to conduct an initial assessment with the program participants to build rapport develop a case formulation and treatment plan. Workers will be required to provide regular progress reports to Referring Officers regarding individual offenders (participants) and will engage in conversation pertaining to the same.

RESPONSIBILITIES

TheCase Workerwill be responsible to operate within the framework and principles of harm minimisation as articulated inNational Drug Strategy 2017-2026the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Drug Strategy (2014-19) and the Queensland Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Service Delivery Framework 2015 (and subsequent revisions of these documents).

THE CASE WORKER WILL:

• recognise the spectrum of substance use and stages of change.
• work with clients across all stages of substance use.
• respond to the full range of psychoactive substances available (including alcohol tobacco licit and illicit drug use pharmaceutical drug misuse emerging synthetics poly drug use)
• consider the support needs of the client and their family including dependent children.
• respond to the method of use and associated risk factors in recognition of the fact that drug use trends change rapidly.

REQUIREMENTS

• Deliver individual counselling sessions to persons under community supervision to address substance use and related issues.
• Identify goals and psychosocial issues case formulation treatment plans interventions and discharge/post treatment including relapse prevention.
• To ensure the service are delivered across a range of Community Corrections District offices.
• Work collaboratively with District office staff and other relevant agencies.
• Other duties as required from time to time to enhance services.

This role is offered at 30.4 hours per fortnight with working days scheduled for every Monday and Wednesday. There may be opportunities to increase hours for candidates willing to support QCS Psychoeducation Groups at Woodford Correctional Centre.

Please note that successful applicants will be required to complete a Blue Card application as well as a Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) Criminal History Check.

SELECTION CRITERIA

Please respond to each criteria question to the best of your ability.

SC1 Relevant qualifications and/or experience based on the pre-requisites for this position.

SC2 Demonstrated understanding of alcohol and other drug issues and other at-risk behaviours.

SC3 Demonstrated clinical skills in assessment case management case formulation counselling detox support psycho-education social skills training relapse prevention care coordination and referral.

SC4 Experience building rapport with mandated clients (persons under community Supervision).

SC5 Demonstrated understanding of the Stages of Change model and in particular relapse prevention strategies.

SC6 Good interpersonal skills including communication skills and demonstrated ability to establish effective working relationships with stakeholders.

SC7 A good knowledge of and skills in using the internet Microsoft Outlook report writing and client management databases.

How to apply for this job

• Selection Criteria answers in Cover Letter
• Resume

To be considered for this position please submit your resume along with your responses to the selection criteria (included in your cover letter) via Seek. For further enquiries please contact