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Pride In Place - LGBTQIA+ Initial Assessment & Planning Worker

VincentCare Victoria
  • Pride in Place
  • LGBTQIA+ Initial Assessment and Planning Worker
  • 0.8 FTE, Fixed Term until June 2024 - SCHADS Level 4 $39.27 to $42.25 per hour

The Role:

VincentCare Victoria is seeking an appropriately-qualified person to take on the position of Pride in Place - LGBTQIA+ Initial Assessment and Planning Workers.

This position will be responsible for providing crisis accommodation, housing information and support to individuals, couples, and families from the LGBTQIA+ community, who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Workers are required to complete assessments for people of a range of ages, support needs and life experience, provide information to assist clients to respond to their circumstances and assist clients to refer to other support services within and external to the Pride in Place partner organisations.

The Initial Assessment and Planning Worker role is integral within the wider homelessness service system and often acts as the first point of contact for most people seeking assistance. As a result, they are required to have highly developed communication and interpersonal skills especially when working with people who are experiencing trauma and housing crisis. In addition, the role demands an ability to be innovative in providing a tailored response to individual clients while working within the existing homelessness service system.

The Pride in Place - LGBTQIA+ Initial Assessment and Planning Workers expands upon this framework by working with LGBTQIA+ people experiencing homelessness or housing stress 'where they are at'. This includes meeting people in the community in an outreach capacity, where they are currently residing or in the office environment of a trusted community organisation.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to the principles of social justice and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion. First Nations People, LGBTQIA+ people, people with disability, people of colour, public housing residents or people with a lived experience of homelessness are encouraged to apply.

VincentCare Victoria

VincentCare Victoria is an award winning organisation established to provide a range of accommodation and support services to people that are facing disadvantage throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria.

Our aspiration is to be the leader in providing care, hope and advocacy for those facing disadvantage. Our purpose is to create opportunities and lasting change for the most marginalised. VincentCare is well equipped to provide a continuum of services that effectively meet the needs of people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

Northern Community Hub provides integrated services in the community housing sector, along with family violence services, case management services and youth outreach services.

Working with VincentCare

A key strategic priority is attracting and retaining skilled and committed employees aligned to our values. VincentCare has over three hundred dedicated, talented and enthusiastic staff working across a range of programs and services and offers a number of benefits including:

  • Career Development opportunities
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Salary Packaging
  • Choice of Superannuation fund
  • Family friendly and flexibility
  • Study leave
  • The Ozanam Scholar Bursary

Selection Criteria

  • Undertaking assessments with LGBTQIA+ clients that focus on their experiences, identified strengths and risks, as well as personal aspirations.
  • The provision of information on a range of relevant topics including housing options, tenancy legislation, and allied service systems.
  • Advocating on behalf of clients especially in relation to working with real estate agents and housing providers.
  • Arranging crisis accommodation for clients using resources such as Housing Establishment Funds and Private Rental Brokerage.
  • Completing referrals to, and assisting clients to navigate a range of services/service gateways.
  • Providing an "active holding" response to clients who are prioritised for support vacancies.

How to apply

Applicants must submit their CV together with Cover Letter detailing a response to each of the key selection criteria in the position description which is available below.

Phone enquiries may be made to Joshua Darvill on 0428 313 489.

VincentCare welcomes applications from people from diverse cultural & linguistic backgrounds including people who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Aboriginal and/ or Torres Strait Islander.

All appointments within VincentCare Victoria are subject to satisfactory completion of a police check and character/performance reference checks. Police checks will be undertaken for the selected candidate prior to any job offer being confirmed. Police checks are also undertaken on a periodic basis during the period of employment.

All appointments are subject to disclosure of any relevant employment history of formal disciplinary action for improper or unprofessional conduct taken by current or previous employers or any other integrity body within or outside Australia.

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