Reconnect Case Worker

7 days ago

Shepparton, Australia Uniting Vic.Tas Full time

**Provide support to young people that are at risk of or currently experiencing homelessness**:

- **Increase your take home pay with up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits.**:

- **Part-time (4 days per week), Maximum term position until 30 June 2026, based in Shepparton**

**About the opportunity**:
The Reconnect Program uses community-based early intervention services to assist young people aged 12 to 18 years (12 to 21 years for newly arrived youth) who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness, and their families.

As a Reconnect Case Worker, you will utilise direct client support, case management, referrals, and advocacy to assist young people to stabilise their living situation and improve their level of engagement with family, work, education, training, and their local community.

**What’s on offer**:
Join an organisation where we don’t just provide a service. We use our connections, our size, our scale, and our knowledge to push into places where we feel like we should be doing more.

In addition to receiving a salary commencing at **SCHADS Level 4** and **superannuation**, you’ll also receive **17.5% leave loading** and an ability to** increase your take-home pay** by accessing up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits.

Receive **10% discount** on the childcare subsidy gap fee when using a Uniting Early Learning service or centre.

**About you**:
You are looking to join an organisation that truly supports vulnerable Victorians and Tasmanians to improve their lives.
- **A tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, Welfare, or related discipline (essential)**:

- Experience in working with newly arrived individuals and communities and an understanding of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse individuals and communities.
- Demonstrated skills and experience in working with disempowered and vulnerable people through a newly arrived CALD lens, including:

- Capacity to engage clients and establish effective helping relationships.
- Undertake strength-based assessments, needs analysis, development of intervention plans and work with clients to bring about change, working with culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
- Understanding of the issues involved in casework with children, young people, and families.
- Knowledge and experience of a range of relevant intervention strategies and frameworks including children’s developmental needs, parent skill development, working with diversity, drug and alcohol recovery, the cycle of violence, crisis planning and family and broader systems.
- Demonstrated ability to provide effective case management to young people and their families using a range of interventions.

Click here to view the Position Description.

**How to apply**:
**About Uniting**:
At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse range of services across Victoria and Tasmania.
- Uniting is also committed to equal opportunity and ensuring the workplace is reflective of the community. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability._
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