Practitioner, Community Connections

1 week ago

Ballarat, Australia CatholicCare Victoria Full time

75 hours per fortnight, continuing position

About the role

CatholicCare Victoria’s Community Connection Program provides a high quality and flexible service to clients with severe and ongoing disabilities who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The program works with people in low-cost accommodation to facilitate their ongoing access to mainstream and specialist services. The program develops sustainable partnerships within the local service system to provide more responsive responses to clients under age 65 with moderate, severe or profound disabilities and their unpaid carers. Through short to medium term case management, the program supports people to manage their own health and welfare needs and providers packages of care for people.

Specifically, the position is responsible for:

- Completing intake, assessments and providing case support to clients with complex needs

- Undertake an assertive outreach role in the community

- Assist clients in linking in with appropriate community support including mainstream health and welfare services and will identify any barriers to essential services that may be present

- Developing collaborative work practices to assist clients to access a variety of services, will assist clients to set and achieve goals and will advocate for clients where required

To be considered for this position, applicants require:

- Diploma in Community Services or other Welfare or related field

- Experience working with and assisting those who are homeless or are at risk of experiencing homelessness and have unmet and complex needs and the issues relating to those

- Experience and knowledge of working with older people, people with intellectual, physical, or sensory disabilities, people with mental illness or psychiatric disability, people with an acquired brain injury and people with drug or alcohol substance misuse problems

Contact

Georgina Cue

Team Leader, Homelessness and Housing Support

Please ensure your application includes your resume and a cover letter detailing a summary of your experience relevant to the position.

The successful applicant must have the right to work in Australia, undergo a National Police Check with a satisfactory outcome (and International Police Check if applicable), hold a current Working with Children’s check (employee status) and for some positions a valid drivers licence.

Should you require cultural or other support in submitting your application, please contact our People Team on 03 4344 4798.

Should you require information in alternative formats, please contact our People Team on 03 4344 4798.

If your documents are larger than a combined 10MB, or if your documents are not PDF files, please send your documents to peopleteam@catholiccarevic.org.au

If you experience any issues with this form, please take a screenshot and send this with details about the issue to peopleteam@catholiccarevic.org.au

CatholicCare Victoria acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters of Victoria. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

All gifts of $2 or more are tax deductible and go directly to our programs.

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