• Join a highly skilled supportive team
• Work Life Balance - 3 days per week part time role
• Join a flexible family friendly organisation that embraces diversity

About Wombat

Wombat Housing Support Services is one of the largest providers of housing support services to people in the Western Metropolitan Region. We are a community-based organisation based in North Melbourne.

• We offer 5 weeks paid annual leave as well as Grace and Favour Days between Christmas and New Year.

• We offer comprehensive supervision and support to all staff that values reflective practice and professional development
• We live our values of responsiveness, authenticity, connection, accountability and innovation.
• We have a strong focus on staff wellbeing

About The Role

The Youth Homelessness Prevention Specialist (LGBTQIA+) is new role that has been developed to provide enhanced support to clients, capacity building for the wider youth team, resource development and external partnership development with an LGBTQIA+ lens. There will be a focus on LGBTQIA+ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients and CALD clients, though also intersectionality in all its forms.

Research suggests experiences of discrimination, trauma, substance use, mental health issues (such as anxiety, depression, suicidality, and PTSD), family conflict and violence, and childhood sexual abuse are higher among LGBTQIA+ people who experience homelessness. We want to ensure this at risk cohort receives the sensitive and informed support they need from Wombat.

The successful candidate will contribute to the development of the role alongside the team leader, with the understanding that the role may change in response to client and agency need. After 12 months we will review the success of the role, at which time it may continue, shift focus, or morph into a case management role alongside the rest of the team. We recognise the flexibility of the role does not provide certainty in its focus, however we are excited to have the opportunity to work in an iterative manner and follow the needs of the clients and program.

With the support of the youth team leader the enhanced case manager will:

• Develop appropriate LGBTQIA+ resources
• Develop external relationships/ partnerships and referral pathways for LGBTQIA+ young people
• Provide secondary consultation to program workers and agency as a whole to enhance our ability to respond sensitively to LGBTQIA+ clients
• Review and advise on youth processes to ensure they are LGBTQIA+ sensitive and appropriate
• Assist in developing internal processes to improve data collection systems to capture LGBTQIA+ information
• Undertake initial assessments, provide interim case management support & facilitate warm referrals to relevant services

Your Qualities

• You will relish the opportunity to develop the role within a passionate tight knit team and enjoy thinking creatively about interventions for young LGBTQIA+ people at risk.
• You will have a good understanding of issues confronting LGBTQIA+ young people in particular those who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
• You will have case management experience and the ability to conduct assessments and support young people at risk
• You will have an openness to self-reflection, feedback, learning and developing as part of a team

• You’ll be up for a challenge – every day will be different

Work Arrangements

• An ongoing position
• .6 EFT – 3 days per week

• A competitive salary at SCHADS Award Level 5
• Attractive EBA

Enquiries

• Lenka Brazda (Youth Team Leader) Ph: 8327 2222 or [email protected] 
• Mark Rayner (General Manager) Ph: 8327 2222 or [email protected], using the subject line: Youth Homelessness Prevention Specialist (LGBTIQA+) enquiry via EthicalJobs. 

A position description is attached.