AOD Case Work Team leader

• Full-Time, Fixed-Term, until June 2026
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

The Case Work Team Leader drives the team to deliver impactful service, ensure the team is equipped, engaged, clear on and accountable for their objectives
This position sits within the AOD Outreach Cluster which aims to improve the health, wellbeing, housing and social outcomes of people who use alcohol and other drugs and/or those experiencing homelessness in the Inner North West of Melbourne.

The team is based at Central City in the CBD and at Health Works in Footscray. The Team Leader will travel between sites in providing leadership to the team.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Ensure activity is meeting funding and organisational requirements
• Leads team to deliver collective and individual objectives
• Ensure team activities deliver the service Model of Care and align with cohealth strategic
• Recruiting and inducting new team members and building their self-organising capability and fostering alignment with team members

What cohealth offers:

• Generous salary packaging options to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation). Salary packaging reduces your cohealth taxable income, meaning you pay less tax on your cohealth income
• A generous rewards program from our salary packaging provider
• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks of paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline (e.g. Alcohol and Other Drugs, Community Development, Social Work)
• Demonstrated team leadership in a community or public health organisation working with marginalised populations
• Demonstrated experience supervising and coaching staff to deliver quality care outcomes and lifting performance
• Victorian Driver's Licence

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working With Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination.

Roles that are determined to be Risk Category A or B [staff that have direct and/or indirect contact with body substances and are at higher risk of occupational exposure to infections] will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza prior to commencement [A] or within 12 weeks of commencement [B].

Application Process

To apply for this job click on apply now and you will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and Cover Letter.
We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received.
Applications close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM.
If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Danny Jeffcote on Danny.Jeffcote@cohealth.org.au