Cultural Support Worker. Niss

**Job no**: 504416
**Employment type**: Part Time
**Location**: Sydney
**Categories**: Immigration Support Services

**About the Organisation**

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

**About the Service**

Our **National Immigration Support Service (NISS)** provides a broad range of support to people seeking asylum and Refugees who are living in the Australian community.

As an asylum seeker or refugee in Australia, the path to stability can be rocky and we acknowledge the relentless fight for freedoms that some of us take for granted. Life Without Barriers supports people to reach their goals, one step at a time to navigate what can be a complex and challenging system.

Within this stable and agile team, you can play a vital part in enhancing the lives of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia. If you, like us, value inclusivity and respect, this could be the best career move you ever make to truly make a difference. Life Without Barriers is the largest national provider of the **Status Resolution Support Service (SRSS), contracted by the Department of Home Affairs.**

**About the role**

The purpose of the Cultural Support worker
- NISS is to provide responsive and tailored support services to clients to support them to meet identified goals and address their barriers and vulnerabilities to achieve independence.

This position is being offered as casual until 31.07.25 (15-20hrs p.w)** **position based at our Paramatta (NSW)** **office.

**Responsibilities**
- Proactively work with clients towards supporting meaningful engagement.
- Assist clients to progress towards their own personal development goals.
- Provide high quality service delivery which will enable clients to connect meaningfully to the community and achieve their goals.
- Plan with the individual to create program and personal goals.

**Skills & Experience**
- Certificate III in Community Welfare, or similar, or willingness to complete this within first 2 years of employment.
- Experience working with Refugees and/or Asylum Seekers or knowledge in this area of support.
- Ability to develop a positive relationship with service users and to support their Individual Care Plan
- Commitment to the values of dignity, respect, inclusion, empowerment, confidentiality and strength-based practice
- Ability to maintain service user privacy and confidentiality.
- Ability to use initiative and to work both individually in supporting service users and as part of a team
- Proactively work with clients towards supporting meaningful engagement
- Assist clients to progress towards their own personal development goals
- Ability client safety and wellbeing through the timely notification of incident reports and following the identified risk assessment protocols and safety plans
- each shift
- Provide clients with an opportunity to collaborate and inform practice
- Provide balanced and objective information to assist clients to understand the problem, alternatives and/or solutions
- Ability to manage clients with complex physical and mental health issues
- Ensure the handover notes and CIRTS database is up to date with all required information
- A current unrestricted Drivers Licence

**Benefits**
- An attractive remuneration package will be offered to the successful applicant.

**How to Apply**
- Please note: To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or hold a valid medical exemption certificate. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process._

**Advertised**: 09 Dec 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 18 Dec 2024 23:55 AUS Eastern Daylight Time