Case Worker
Job No:
VIN3297
Location:
Bowral
- SCHCADS Award hourly rates range from $41.52 - $44.68 + super + tax-free salary packaging
- Amazing NFP salary packaging tax-free benefits: increasing annual pay package up to $15k
- Clear paths to career progression + ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Monday to Friday 38 hours per week - some flexibility on start/finish times.
The St Vincent de Paul Society is a leading provider of community support services, whose values it is to shape a more just and compassionate society.
The Role:
Vital and diverse role providing a range of Case Work support to people experiencing homelessness. The support you provide will be crucial in helping people stabilise and sustain their accommodation and ultimately transition away from homelessness. You will be joining a supportive and inclusive environment for both our clients and employees. We value teamwork, collaboration, and continuous learning to ensure the highest level of care and support for our clients.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Engage with individuals experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness
- Conduct initial intakes and assessments and provide crisis intervention when necessary
- Refer clients to external services and connect them to life skills and educational programs
- Advocate on behalf of clients with Government Departments, Courts, and other service providers
- Conduct home visits for clients in temporary or transitional accommodation
- Explore opportunities to help individuals reach their full potential
- Build collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders and services
- Provide client support with a respectful, non-judgmental, and inclusive attitude, while respecting client confidentiality
- Create a safe and welcoming environment for clients accessing the service & attend to clients' primary needs
- Develop case plans with clients, provide ongoing support, and monitor, review, and follow up on the case plan
- Maintain client records and case notes in a professional manner
- Manage client flow and building safety
- Handle phone calls, mail, and correspondence
You will need:
- Minimum TAFE Certificate IV or currently undertaking tertiary study, in welfare or related field
- Previous experience providing support to marginalised and vulnerable people support to homeless persons
- Demonstrated knowledge of issues relating to homelessness including but not limited to family breakdown, mental illness, drug, alcohol and gambling addictions
- Demonstrated awareness of appropriate local community support services for homeless clients, including government agencies and NGO’s, and the capacity to build and maintain strong relationships with such service providers
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Sound computer skills
- Awareness and understanding of the Work Health and Safety legislation and a commitment to promoting safe work practices
- Ability to use sound judgement and act appropriately in crisis and emergency situations
- NSW driver's license
If this sounds like you, don’t wait - apply now, we are interviewing applications as we receive them. Submit your application with a resume. For more about the role, see the Position Description.
This is our Recruitment process
If you have questions about this role, or require an easy-read Position Description, please email veronica.ritchie@vinnies.org.au quoting:Case Worker VIN3285
St Vincent de Paul Society (NSW) welcomes people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to engaging a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, candidates of any or no religious beliefs and applicants of all ages. If you are a candidate with disability please let us know if you require any support to participate in the application and recruitment process.
The Society is committed to being a Child Safe organisation, further information can be found in the Society’s commitment to Safeguarding Children & Young People. Prior to an offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete the pre-employment checks including a Police check & Working with Children check. A health / medical assessment may be required for some roles.
St Vincent de Paul (NSW) has a COVID- 19 vaccination policy that has identified this role as requiring a full COVID-19 vaccination. Medical exemptions with the NSW government contraindication form will be considered, subject to a satisfactory risk assessment.