Case Worker

**SCHCADS Award Level 4, $77k - 83k (depending on experience)**:

- **Generous salary packaging benefits where a portion of take-home pay is tax-free**:

- **Rewarding opportunity to make a difference in a purpose-led organisation**

The St Vincent de Paul Society is a leading provider of community support services, whose values it is to shape a more just and compassionate society.
- We believe our employees are key to our success and offer Learning and Development programs to enhance and grow your career across a range of teams and services. You are recognised for their achievements and offered promotional opportunities on a meritocracy basis within a collegiate and values driven team environment and culture._

**The Role**:
Vital and diverse role providing a range of **Case Work** support to people experiencing homelessness. The support you provide will be crucial in helping people stabilise and sustain their accommodation and ultimately transition away from homelessness. This is a highly rewarding and diverse role with a mixture of outreach, tenancy and crisis case management support. You will be joining a small,_ supportive and dedicated team_ who offer _great learning and development programs_ and clear pathways to_ internal progression._

**Your responsibilities**:

- Engage with persons sleeping rough and/or those people in danger of becoming homeless.
- Undertake home visits with clients located in temporary, transitional or permanent accommodation.
- Refer clients to appropriate external services and link to life skill and educational programs
- Create collaborative partnerships with other key stakeholders and services.
- Offer client support at all times with a respectful, non-judgmental and inclusive attitude and manner, upholding and respecting the rights of clients at all times while maintaining client confidentiality.
- Develop case plans with the clients, provide ongoing support to achieve the case plan and monitor, review and follow up the case plan.
- Attend to the primary needs of clients and maintain client records/case notes, both electronic and handwritten.
- Meeting service targets as required by the manager, Society and/or external agencies.
- This role will report to the Manager Homelessness and Housing._

**To be successful, you will need**:

- Previous experience providing support to marginalised and vulnerable people support to homeless persons
- Demonstrated knowledge of issues relating to homelessness including but not limited to family breakdown, mental illness, drug, alcohol and gambling addictions.
- Demonstrated awareness of appropriate local community support services for homeless clients, including government agencies and NGO’s, and the capacity to build and maintain strong relationships with such service providers.
- Excellent written/oral communication skills and sound computer skills.
- NSW driver licence

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