After Hours Support Worker

**Work with Melbourne's most progressive housing and homelessness organisation**:

- ** Multiple casual roles available, immediate start**:

- ** $39.65 per hour + 25% casual loading + super**:

- ** East St Kilda location, close to public transportation, shops, and cafes**:

- ** Working Holiday Visa Holders are welcome to apply**

**Why join Launch Housing**

Our mission is to end homelessness. We aim to get people housed, keep them housed, and be an influential voice on ending homelessness. We are a secular, independent provider of choice for clients and the go-to organisation on homelessness for government, media, philanthropy, private donors and the community.

Our people are the backbone of our organisation and supporting their wellbeing and professional development is critical to our ability to help our clients and the community. We value lived experience and diversity in our staff, and actively work to ensure everyone is able to make their career with Launch Housing fulfilling.

**_ There are many benefits of working at Launch Housing including:_**
- Contributing to useful and rewarding work and giving something back to the community
- Training and career growth opportunities across Launch Housing
- Positive, supportive and progressive work environment

**What you'll do**

As an After-Hours Support Worker, you will be empathetic and enthusiastic about making a difference to people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. You will have the ability to juggle competing demands in a crisis setting with women who have significant issues requiring support such as AOD, mental health, trauma, disability, and homelessness.

This is one of the few homeless services in Victoria that employs and accommodates women only. The facility includes 15 single client rooms and offer short term accommodation for up to 8 weeks, individual support, and advocacy services for women 18 years and over. This program focuses on supporting women in crisis to work towards a stable future. Our East St Kilda site provides emergency accommodation for people who identify as female and are experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.

Working in a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team that uses innovative housing practices, this exciting and challenging position offers applicants the opportunity to build and empower the lives of people experiencing homelessness.

**What you'll bring**

To be successful in this role, you will have relevant tertiary qualification and experience working in an after-hours role in Crisis Accommodation. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and be passionate to work and support some of the most vulnerable women in Victoria.

**_ Special conditions:_**
- Launch Housing is relying on exceptions contained in sections 28, 60 and 88 of the EO Act to employ and accommodate women and those who identify themselves as women at this site.
- Full COVID-19 vaccination or a valid Covid-19 Vaccination Exemption certificate, Working with Children and police checks are mandatory at Launch Housing.

**How to apply**
- Launch Housing is committed to child safety and is an Equal Opportunity employer and supports accessible working arrangements for all. This includes people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse people, young people, older people, women, and people who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse, intersex or queer. We acknowledge Lived Experience as a unique expertise, and encourage people with a Lived Experience of Homelessness to apply._