Health Care Connections Worker

3 weeks ago

St Kilda, Australia Melbourne City Mission Full time

**About MCM**:
MCM is an** inclusive and equal opportunity employer** with a strong commitment to **safety.** MCM embraces differences because we know that diversity and inclusion help us to attract, recruit, engage and retain talented people.
We are a leading not-for profit-for-purpose organisation that offer a broad range of services in Early Years, Disability, Homelessness, Palliative Care and Education.

**About the Opportunity**:
Th Health Care Connections (HCC) program aims to connect people experiencing homelessness with relevant local primary health care providers to ensure their primary health needs can be readily met. HCC will aim to do this through an assertive outreach model, meeting people experiencing homelessness where they are in the community, building a relationship with them, supporting them to build connections with relevant local primary health care providers that meet their needs, and then planning with the client how these connections will be sustained over the long term.
The program will deliver this support across 4 Local Government Areas (LGAs) - City of Greater Dandenong, City of Frankston, City of Casey and City of Port Phillip. HCC will be delivered by a new team of 3 Health Care Connections Workers and the Health Care Connections Team Leader. This new team will become part of the wider MCM Youth and Family Homelessness Services Team. The Health Care Connection Worker provides high quality assertive outreach support to people experiencing homelessness and connects them with relevant local primary health care providers that meet their needs. The role also builds relationships with local primary health care providers and other local homelessness support services to ensure they are connected to the program.

Key Duties of the role include but are not limited to:

- Design, evaluate and assist with the implementation of evidence-based intervention strategies
- Assertive, flexible outreach to target cohort, wherever they are across the 4 target LGAs
- Strengths-based, flexible relationship building with clients
- Comprehensive needs assessments with clients to have a full understanding of the primary health care needs and their current barriers to accessing these services
- Clear and robust case planning with clients to support them to overcome any barriers they are facing to accessing primary health care services, including directly connecting clients to local primary health care services that will meet their needs.
- Transportation provided to services where required, building towards independent travel to services.
- Clear and robust transition case planning with clients, to ensure the connections they have built with local primary health care services can be sustained over the long term without our support.

**About you**:
**Essential**:

- Tertiary qualifications in Social Work, Youth Work, Welfare studies or related fields
- Demonstrated experience and ability in supporting people who have experienced homelessness, particularly those experiencing primary homelessness
- Demonstrated experience working within a case management and assertive outreach framework
- Strong passion for working with people and ability to engage people actively and assertively with complex needs
- Ability to establish and maintain a variety of partnerships
- Strong organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise tasks
- Well-developed communication, negotiation, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills
- High level of initiative and motivation and the ability to work independently
- Strong administration skills and computer literacy, including in Microsoft Outlook, case management and case noting systems
- An understanding of the requirements for ensuring child safety.
- Satisfactory completion of safety screening including a National Police check, International Police check (if required), a current Victorian Working with Children Check (Employee), current Victorian Drivers Licence, and the right to work in Australia.

**Benefits of working with MCM include**:

- Diverse and inclusive organisation
- Attractive Salary Packaging benefits
- Supportive learning and development environment
- Culture of continuous improvement
- Bravo Reward, Recognition, Benefits Platform

**Screening Criteria**:

- National Police check
- Valid Victorian Drivers license
- Right to Work in Australia
- Working with Children Check (Employee)

**Our commitment to Diversity**:
At MCM, we embrace differences in gender, age, ethnicity, race, cultural background, disability, religion and sexual orientation. We know that diversity and inclusion helps us to attract, recruit, engage and retain a team of talented people.

**Our commitment to Safety**:
MCM is committed to the safety of its clients and employees, taking a zero-tolerance approach to violence within the workplace and abuse, including child abuse and abuse of people with disability. All employees are required to comply with the Child Safe Standar

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