AOD Student placement North West Catchment
Location
For this placement you would be based at the Footscray centre. Students on placement will need to have a valid police check. An international police check is also required for students who have lived overseas for more than 12 months in the last 10 years. These documents must be no more than 3 months from the date of commencement. A valid working with childrens check is also required.
Eligibility
- Undergraduate Postgraduate and Master of Social Work Counselling or Psychology
- Diploma in Mental Health or Community Services
Your placement would include:
For Social Work Students:
- A day in the life of this position includes duty in central intake completing comprehensive assessments developing individual treatment plans and providing brief interventions. Your assessment and treatment plans will address risk for both the client and their family and social network. You will participate in clinical reviews and clinical supervision. You will be responsible for a counselling caseload join our Care & Recovery Coordination (CRC). Workers in their outreach and advocacy functions and provide facilitation support to our therapeutic day program.
For Counselling and Psychology Students:
- A day in the life of this position includes duty in central intake completing comprehensive assessments developing individual treatment plans and making referrals and providing brief interventions. Your assessment and treatment plans will address risk for both the client and their family and social network. You will participate in clinical reviews and clinical supervision. You will be responsible for a counselling caseload including the development of therapeutic treatment plans and case recording.
For Diploma Students:
- A day in the life of this position includes observing and supporting our central intake observing comprehensive assessments shadowing our CRC Workers developing individual treatment plans and making referrals and preparing notes of observed interventions. Your observations will include assessing risk for both the client and their significant others. You will participate in clinical reviews and clinical supervision and other Catchment meetings. You will provide CRC and Brief Interventions in outreach and advocacy and provide facilitation and support to our therapeutic day program.
To apply for this student placement please apply here. Students interested in other sites can make additional applications to the specific advertisements on Odyssey Victorias website.
We will be assessing applications on a rolling basis and suitable candidates will be shortlisted immediately.
This opportunity will close once a suitable candidate has been selected so please dont wait to apply!
Clickhere for a copy of the position description.
Please ensure that your covering letter responds to the key selection criteria which is in the position descriptor and that all required documentation is uploaded at the time of application. We are unable to consider applications that do not follow the outlined process.