Housing Specialist

**THE ORGANISATION**

Permalink Support Services is a registered National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Provider, that offers Homecare & Community Care services, Coordination, Therapy, Housing, Supported Independent Living and Job Active Programs, to people with a disability.

Servicing all regions of Metropolitan Melbourne, Permalink is rapidly growing and expanding its care services with more than 500 Support Workers & Clients to date.

**The Role**

The Housing Specialist is one of the most important executives at Permalink Support Services, and their primary responsibilities include client intake, housing assistance and management, customer relations development, providing conflict resolution services, and acting as the main point of communication between the client, support coordinator/stakeholders with our administration teams.

**Benefits & Culture**
- Working in an environment with defined management structures and processes, where Client Housing Management is a highly valued team member
- Employee allowances
- Monthly employee events, functions, and activities
- Long Service Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- You will have the ability to have a broad remit and be influential across the organisation.
- Variety of learning and professional development opportunities
- Opportunity to transition into a Part
- time role after 6 months of continuous performance

**POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Responsible for initiating client intake, setup of housing plans, weekly budget and providing each client a weekly 3.5hr service engagement to seek appropriate housing.
- Attend to high profile clients and severe complex cases in search of private rental, community housing or short-term accommodation.
- Organise with client’s weekly private property searches and book inspection appointments
- Responsible for connecting with clients weekly via a call and sending confirmation messages for inspection bookings, lease approvals and any other communications necessary.
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team including Client Services managers, clients, support coordinators and external stakeholders to sustain tenancies.
- Experience or capacity dealing with people who have experienced homelessness.
- Capacity dealing with complex and challenging clients with an ability to engage clients to create a budget and seek appropriate housing in a timely manner.
- Highly developed written and oral communication skills and relationship management skills.
- Well-developed organisational skills including the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Demonstrated experience working in a fast-paced environment and works well under pressure
- A team player who can work as a part of a team while also having the capacity to function autonomously.
- Knowledge and experience in the use of Microsoft Office programmers and the capacity to use/ learn new systems/databases such as housing management databases.
- Provide strong leadership and direction for staff within the department, ensuring a high level of service delivery, professional development, and workplace culture.
- Ensure quality in service delivery to clients

**ELECTION CRITERIA**
- Customer service skills and problem - solving capability, particularly in customer relations and building organisational capability applied within a disability sector
- A broad range of influencing skills, experience with producing high quality and effective written communication with the ability to develop and maintain relationships with a diverse set of support coordinators, support workers and administration staff.
- Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate effectively with a range of people and in a variety of situations.
- Computer skills including experience with Microsoft Office, and the ability to adapt to new in-house systems.
- Flexibility to work reasonable additional hours to fulfil the scope of the role.
- Current drivers’ licence
- Current Police Check
- Current Working with Children Check
- COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate

Onsite compliances to be completed during induction include:

- NDIS Worker Screener Check
- COVID-19 Infection Control Training
- NDIS Module Certificate

**OUR VISION**

Our vision is to be a valued partner in creating positive changes to enable all people with a disability to be respected equally and reach their full potentials to live a prosperous life.

**OUR MISSION**

Our mission is to respect and empower all people to be the best version of themselves and to become the number one choice for disability service providers across Victoria within the next 10 years.

**OUR VALUES**

Our values are the people we support where individualised services are designed with their interests, needs and care. We base our services as set out by the National Standards for Disability Services:

- **Rights.**The service promotes individual rights to freedom of expression, self-determination and decision-making, and actively prevents abuse, harm, negl