Connection Coach

**Connection Coach - Housing Connect***:

- Housing Connect | Hobart Metropolitan- Closing date: 23/03/2025

We are seeking a permanent, full-time Connection Coach within our Housing Connect team.

**About us**:
Anglicare Tasmania is a non-profit organisation that provides a wide range of community services to the people of Tasmania. One of those services is Housing Connect which is Tasmania’s entry point for housing assistance. Our Housing Connect Team directly supports people experiencing housing stress.

**About the Role**:
**The successful applicant will possess demonstrable competency, knowledge, understanding and/or skills in the following areas**:

- Expertise in conducting assessments in line with an Advantaged Thinking practice approach which considers needs, capabilities, risks, and challenges to ensure a holistic understanding of the person’s circumstances to effectively tailor the response.
- Expertise in brief interventions: short term planning and goal setting, provision of relevant information, connection to opportunities, resources, people, and networks to grow skills and capabilities to maximise housing outcomes.
- High level initiative and problem-solving with the ability to identify opportunities and discern external service system pathways that have the expertise and resources to be leveraged to provide a more tailored response for people experiencing disadvantage.
- Expertise and ability to develop, creatively leverage and sustain relationships across the service system, community, business, and education sectors to maximise outcomes for people accessing Housing Connect.
- Up-to-date knowledge of housing information, community resources, service providers and referral points.
- Understanding of Tasmania’s current housing market and the difficulties facing people on a low-income trying to secure housing including family violence, mental health and alcohol and other drug issues.
- Understanding of human development and the normative activities, behaviours, and developmental milestones characteristic to stage of life, as well as the relevant community and institutional links and systems.
- Understanding of relevant theoretical and conceptual frameworks and commitment to the values and ideals of capabilities and Advantaged Thinking practice approach.
- Experience in working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team including team de-briefing, program planning activities and a variety of other team based consultative processes.
- Demonstrated time management skills with the ability to effectively set priorities and manage an assigned caseload.
- High level written and verbal communication skills including the ability to maintain accurate, professional case-notes, prepare correspondence and provide required information within program guidelines.
- Computer skills, in particular the ability to operate word processing and database management software packages.
- A commitment to working collaboratively with Housing Connect partners to negotiate a consistent approach across all areas of operations.
- Tertiary qualifications relevant to the position or extensive experience and lesser qualifications deemed equivalent.

**What we can offer you**:

- $88,465 to $92,713 plus super + salary sacrifice;
- not-for-profit salary packaging available that can increase your take home pay
- a 7% Graduate Loading payable where you hold a degree in a relevant discipline;
- professional development opportunities;
- a friendly and supportive work environment.

The successful applicant will be required to:

- provide a current Tasmanian Working with Vulnerable People Registration (employment/volunteer category) including NDIS Worker Screening Check;
- present an unsupervised contact with children or vulnerable people type National Police Check (no older than 12 months);
- provide an International Police Check if you have resided for 12 months or more outside of Australia after the age of 16;
- provide a satisfactory Anglicare assessed medical;
- provide a current provisional or full Australian Driver Licence.

On commencement the successful applicant will be required to undertake our structured Safeguarding Children Training program.

**APPLICATIONS CLOSE: SUNDAY, 23**rd** of March 2025, at 6.00pm.**

PLEASE NOTE: Other vacancies that may arise in the near future may also be filled from this selection process.

**About Anglicare Tasmania**

Anglicare Tasmania is committed to providing an inclusive and respectful work environment where all people are valued and have equal access to opportunities to reach their full potential.