Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 13th Mar 2024
- Sydney > Hornsby
We are recruiting a Case Worker on a casual basis for our Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Women's Shelter team to work with homeless women escaping domestic and family violence.
This role is classified as a Crisis Accommodation Level 2 position within the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (SCHADS Award). The minimum base rate on offer is in line with Crisis Accommodation Level 2.1 pay rates, and the employee will be paid relevant loadings and allowances in line with the SCHADS Award.
The shelter is staffed 5 days a week (reporting to a Shelter Manager working office hours) therefore flexibility for early mornings and on-call shifts are essential.
Women’s Community Shelters are dedicated to supporting and empowering women to take control and move on with their lives. Our clients are supported with client-centric and trauma informed case management and are supported to secure more permanent accommodation and pursue other goals, such as, studying, re-training, legal, employment, financial, family and recreational.
An understanding of the homelessness sector, awareness around current issues and practice in domestic violence and good knowledge of housing pathways are key skills for this role.
Experience working with CIMS case management system is desirable.
Our services are provided only to women. We consider being a woman is a genuine occupational qualification for this position under section 31 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) and sections 30 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth).
We seek a workforce that is as diverse as our society that will reflect the communities that we work in. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and CALD women to apply.