Practitioner, Community Connections
Location
Ballarat
EFT
- 60 hours per fortnight, maximum term position for 12 months
About the role
CatholicCare Victoria’s Community Connection Program provides a high quality and flexible service to clients with severe and ongoing disabilities who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The program works with people in low-cost accommodation to facilitate their ongoing access to mainstream and specialist services. The program develops sustainable partnerships within the local service system to provide more responsive responses to clients under age 65 with moderate, severe or profound disabilities and their unpaid carers. Through short to medium term case management, the program supports people to manage their own health and welfare needs and providers packages of care for people.
Specifically, the position is responsible for:
- Completing intake, assessments and providing case support to clients with complex needs
- Undertake an assertive outreach role in the community
- Assist clients in linking in with appropriate community support including mainstream health and welfare services and will identify any barriers to essential services that may be present
- Develop collaborative work practices to assist clients to access a variety of services, will assist clients to set and achieve goals and will advocate for clients where required
To be considered for this position, applicants require:
- Diploma in Community Services or other Welfare or related field
- Experience working with and assisting those who are homeless or are at risk of experiencing homelessness and have unmet and complex needs and the issues relating to those
- Experience and knowledge of working with older people, people with intellectual, physical, or sensory disabilities, people with mental illness or psychiatric disability, people with an acquired brain injury and people with drug or alcohol substance misuse problems
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to liaise with people with disabilities, specialist staff, and community service providers and other key stakeholders
Contact
People Team
How to apply
Please submit the form to apply for the role. When applying please include:
- a cover letter
- your current resume
- responses to the position’s key requirements, if applying for management positions only
- three professional referees
Only short-listed applicants will be contacted for an interview. Psychometric and other assessments may also be required.
Document uploads
If your documents are larger than a combined 10MB, or if your documents are not PDF files, please send your documents to peopleteam@catholiccarevic.org.au
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