Case Worker – Toowoomba
Core
Provide drug and alcohol counselling and case management to individuals under community supervision using a bio-psychosocial model and recovery framework.
Role type
Senior IC case worker (substance use rehabilitation)
Builds
Individual treatment plans, progress reports, and relapse prevention strategies for offenders
Domain
Health + social services (alcohol and other drug treatment)
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
individual counselling, case formulation, treatment planning, relapse prevention, risk assessment, stakeholder collaboration
Preferred skills
knowledge of National Drug Strategy frameworks, experience with diverse psychoactive substances, family support coordination
Technologies
N/A
Responsibilities
Conduct initial assessments and build rapport with participants, deliver individual counselling sessions, identify psychosocial issues and develop interventions, provide regular progress reports to referring officers, work collaboratively with district office staff and other agencies
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC