Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 15th Jul 2021
Sussex Street Community Law Service Inc is a non profit non government community based organisation that provides access to accountable, non judgemental and effective legal and non legal services to low income people in the community. Services provided include disability justice and discrimination advocacy, tenant advocacy, welfare rights and legal advice.
Our Vision:
Increase community access to justice for people who are socially disadvantaged.
Our Mission:
Deliver legal and social services, community education and law reform to promote social justice.
Sussex Street Community Law Service provides Individual Disability Advocacy Services (IDAS) throughout Western Australia and currently has a vacancy for an Individual Disability Advocate with a focus on supporting clients with NDIS appeals.
The position seeks to uphold the rights and interests of people with disabilities who are experiencing or likely to experience discrimination, abuse or neglect related to their disability. The role is to assist people with disability for a specific issue and support them to make informed decisions about those issues.
The right person for this role will have the following profile:
In this role you will have the opportunity to apply your skills and talents in the following ways:
Credentials
Experience
Knowledge and Skills
This position will be based in Victoria Park and is directly supported by the IDAS Team Leader.
A Driver's License is desirable as travel in and around the Perth Metro region is likely.
We encourage applications from candidates who are interested in working flexibly between the hours of 7.00am and 7.00pm on weekdays. Attending events outside of working hours will be managed in accordance with the organisation’s time-off-in-lieu policy.
We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability and people from diverse cultural and or linguistic backgrounds.
We respectfully acknowledge the Noongar Peoples and their Elders, past and present, as the traditional owners of the land on which we provide our services.
For further information about this role, please contact the SSCLS Operations Manager Andre De Barr on 08 6253 9500 or email [email protected] using the subject line: Individual Disability Advocate Position Inquiry.
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We’re looking forward to you joining our team.