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Youth Homelessness Outreach Worker - Morwell

Quantum Support Services
  • Maternity Leave backfill position (1EFT – Fixed term 7.9.2020 – 16.6.2021)
  • SCHADS Award Level 5 ($75,000-$80,000)
  • This position is based in Morwell

Quantum Support Services strives to positively improve lives within the Gippsland Community. At Quantum you will be joining a team of dedicated, likeminded people who want to prevent homelessness, ensure women and children are safe from violence and youth have security and place to call home.

Quantum Support Services has a strong values-based culture and offers its employees many benefits including salary packaging, annual salary indexation, employee assistance program and training and development opportunities.

About the role:

This role is exciting and challenging, but the rewards are great! You will have the opportunity to support Young People who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness. You will assist clients to identify goals and work with them to achieve independent living. To provide a service which facilitates assertive outreach, assist client engagement and provide clients with information and referral to a broad range of community resources.

About you:

You will be a part of the Young People's care, supervising and guiding them through activities in daily living and addressing their homelessness. You will be supporting their individual needs and creating a safe living environment. You will also be part of developing, implementing and monitoring their individual plans. This includes the maintenance of progress notes and reports. You will also provide specific interventions and services in relation to living skills, education and training, and access to the private market (including intensive case management).

For further information in relation to this position contact Cheryl Barnes on 5120 2000.

A position description is attached.

To be eligible for appointment to this position you must undergo a satisfactory National Police Records Check and an international criminal history check if you have resided continuously in an overseas country for 12 months or more in the last 10 years; and hold a valid Working with Children Check and hold a current Victorian drivers licence.

Quantum believes the celebration of diversity makes us and the community stronger. We are committed to embracing everyone’s individual differences so that we can help create a strong workplace and community that is empowered to reach its potential. We celebrate diversity of gender, sexuality and spiritual or religious belief along with all cultural backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Quantum recognises that we all have diverse life experiences that may be influenced by age, ability, social and financial status. Quantum support everyone’s right to feel respected, safe, welcome and valued.

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