Settlement Worker Family Strengthening Sunshine

3 weeks ago


Sunshine, Australia MiCare Full time

**Family friendly work/life balance workplace**:

- **Rewarding and meaningful work**:

- ** Save on tax with generous salary packaging benefits -**Novated leasing, general living expenses, regional area benefits, meal entertainment, Holiday Accommodation and Venue hire
- **Paid training & we support Career Progression -** Scholarship programs, student placement and internal promotion opportunities
- ** Access our Employee Assistance program - **Confidential free counselling (personal, work, financial or legal).
- ** Employee wellness portal** - discounts
- ** Eligible staff receive benefits like income protection from our default Superannuation provider**

**We are looking for a Settlement worker family strengthening to equip eligible migrant/refugee clients to address their identified settlement needs**

**Fixed term position until June 2024**

**Work for 5 days/ 38 hrs per week**

**9.00am to 5.00pm**

**SCHADS Level 3/4 (depending on skills/experience)**

**+ 11% Superannuation **+ Not for Profit Packaging**

**The role is based in Sunshine**

**with an expectation to work at other sites/locations within the region to fulfill operational requirements**

**About us...**

**MiCare** is proud to be a culturally and linguistically diverse organisation. A large part of our work is assisting people from a non-Australian background and we respect their culture, their history, their language and tastes, and their stories.

We are here for everyone believing that all people have the right to be respected and their differences celebrated.

**About the role...**

The Settlement worker Family Strengthening equips eligible clients (including adults, families, and young people from migrant/refugee background with a focus on women and their families), to address their identified settlement needs in order to improve, social participation, economic well-being, independence, personal well-being, safety and community connectedness more broadly.

The role is responsible for the provision of high-quality case management (low, medium, and high complexity casework) and community development initiatives to eligible clients with a focus on Women and Families. The position operates within MiCare’s Integrated Family/Client Service. Some of the main responsibilities of the position includes:

- Provide high quality needs-based case-management support to eligible clients addressing with the nine priority areas identified in the National Settlement Framework. The support includes outreach, advocacy, and assistance to eligible at-risk clients with multiple needs, and with a focus on women and their families.
- Develop and maintain respectful relationships with key referral agencies, community groups and leaders and potential project partners in the region to improve service coordination and referral, avoid duplication and improve local collaboration
- In collaboration with Team Leader, initiate and facilitate the development of key projects, responsive group-work, and other activities aimed at increasing the awareness and knowledge of newly arrived individuals, their families, and communities during the settlement process. This includes but not limited to community/group consultations, co-design of programs, facilitating ongoing support groups, and targeted information sessions/programs
- Respond and manage clients who present in immediate crisis, and/or have multiple or complex needs. Provide short to medium term case management support through a combination of tailored information, supported referral, advocacy, and casework.
- Facilitate referrals to support eligible clients’ journey towards improving safety, social participation, economic well-being, independence, personal wellbeing, and community connectedness.
- In consultation with Team Leader, devise and monitor budgets and financial expenditure for groups/projects as required. Ensure accurate and timely recording of all financial records.

**About you...**

A genuine commitment to access and equity principles, multiculturalism and the values of respect, equality, and integrity. Self-motivated with a positive and professional approach desirable.

**Qualifications**:

- Appropriate Tertiary qualifications in Social Work or other relevant human/social sciences and/or equivalent demonstrated experience.

**Skills**
- An understanding of, and commitment to, the needs of newly-arrived migrant and refugee communities, in particular, women/families from new and emerging communities.
- Knowledge of Case Management Frameworks using a Strengths Based Approach, and Community development and Community Capacity building approaches within the Settlement context
- Working knowledge of policies and referral protocols relating to settlement services; specialist operating knowledge/experience in one or more service areas such as Family Violence, Community health, housing and tenancy, income issues, Family/Youth services are highly desirable.
- Experience supporting people from migrant and



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