• Leading community services organisation
• Salary packaging and competitive sector remuneration
• Part-time (0.20 FTE), Maximum term position (12 Months), based in Ballarat
• Street to Home Program

About the opportunity  

Street 2 Home Peer Support Worker will have lived experience of homelessness and recovering from homelessness once securing housing. The position will draw on these experiences to engage with consumers experiencing rough sleeping and to support consumers to resettle, stabilise, and maintain housing once secured.

The position will work with Assertive Outreach Team to engage with those rough sleeping, and will work with consumers to make their housing, their home.

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About you

To be successful in this role, you will have a Minimum Certificate III in Community Services, Health, Welfare or other relevant qualifications, or willing it undertake these studies. Lived experience of homelessness, rough sleeping, and transitioning into a home and ability to engage and work effectively with consumers experiencing homelessness in a respectful, compassionate and appropriate manner.

How to Apply

If this sounds like you, find out more or apply today. Please upload the following as part of your application:

• Cover Letter
• Current Resume (no more than 3 pages)

Get in touch

For more information or questions regarding the role, please reach out to Stacey Park – Team Leader on 0466 858 776.

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. Visit us: unitingvictas.org.au.

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and Working With Children Check (in Victoria) and/or Working With Vulnerable People Check (in Tasmania) prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking. It is a condition of employment that all eligible workforce in Victoria receive the COVID-19 vaccination and supporting evidence may be requested in order to perform duties at any of Uniting’s workplaces.

We work in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australia’s First Peoples and as the traditional owners and custodians of this land. We celebrate diversity and value the lived experience of people of every ethnicity, faith, age, disability, culture, language, gender identity, sex and sexual orientation. We welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse and non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people at our services. We pledge to provide inclusive and non-discriminatory services.