Homelessness Peer Support Worker

Number of Positions Available:

1

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- ABOUT US

- The Salvation Army is one of Australia’s largest and most-loved charities, helping thousands of Australians every year find hope in the midst of all kinds of personal hardship. The Salvation Army offers the opportunity to use your professional skills and expertise to make a real difference in the lives of people who need help most.
The Salvation Army Australia’s Homelessness Stream provides high quality, person-centred services to people at risk, and or experiencing homelessness. We support all cohorts in case management, outreach support, financial assistance, connection and referral to other specialist services.

Our philosophy is that every person deserves dignity, respect and quality of service and that no one should be without a safe, affordable and secure home. Services are free, voluntary, accredited and delivered by professional and committed staff.

Homelessness Melbourne Metro is committed to providing person centred care, trauma informed practice and a strengths-based approach to improve the health, wellbeing and housing outcomes for people experiencing homelessness.

The Homelessness Melbourne Metro region is a large Homelessness provider in the inner city of Melbourne and provides a comprehensive range of residential & community services across seven sites in St Kilda, Footscray, North Melbourne, West Melbourne, Kensington and Fitzroy.

Community programs include the Crisis Contact Centre, Community Outreach Services for single adults, support for older people in public housing, rough sleeper & street sleeping initiatives, community participation and AOD support.

Residential services operate from Foley House in Footscray, the Open Door in North Melbourne and Flagstaff in West Melbourne.

Homelessness Melbourne Metro is supported by co-located services including the TSA Chaplaincy program, Bolton Clarke primary health service and NDIS support coordination.

We are looking for a progressive and compassionate peer support worker who shares our mission & values and is committed to achieving positive client outcomes. If you have the passion and drive to commit yourself to a challenging and rewarding role, working with people experiencing homelessness, please contact us for a copy of the Position Description.

The position

We are committed to working with the most disadvantaged, marginalised and complex members of our community to support them in recovering from their experience of trauma and homelessness.

The Peer Support Worker role is informed by the Intentional Peer Support (IPS) practise model, which recognises the connection between worker and consumer as critical in achieving housing and wellbeing goals.

You will have
- Lived experience of resettling in a home after experiencing homelessness. They will draw on that experience to support consumers to resettle and stabilise after their period of homelessness
- Specialty knowledge in providing a lived-experience perspective to the Case Management and Leadership Teams at The Salvation Army

What we offer
- As a registered not for profit organisation, you may be eligible for generous tax-free salary packaging benefits
- Financial, retail and lifestyle discounts and benefits
- Employee Assistance Program - Independent confidential counselling service
- An inclusive culture of dedicated, passionate and professional team members
- 0.6 FTE part-time position (3 days per week)
- Contract to 30/6/23
- Located in Kensington, close to public transport & parking

About you
- A lived experience of resettling in a home after experiencing homelessness
- Proof of Formalised Peer Support Training
- A strong commitment to social justice, human rights and consumer centred practice
- Ability to facilitate active participation by consumers in all aspects of recovery and service delivery
- Well-developed interpersonal skills
- Ability to work as part of a diverse team as well as independently
- A current VIC Drivers Licence
- Valid VIC Employee Working with Children Check
- Ability to provide proof of Eligibility to Work in Australia
- If you would like to discuss the role or to obtain a Position Description, please contact Stephen Watson, H2H Team Leader (_
- 0437 562 794_ /
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- people who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Intersex
- people with a culturally or linguistically diverse background
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