Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 16th May 2023
- Sydney > Penrith
Women’s Community Shelters is a network of nine shelters for homeless women accompanied by children across NSW.
We are recruiting for Case Workers to work in our shelter in the Penrith LGA. The Haven - Nepean Women’s Shelter is a crisis accommodation service for up to 6 women with or without dependent children, who are experiencing homelessness due to domestic violence or family violence. The Haven is opening the first Core & Cluster.
The shelter is staffed 7 days a week (reporting to the Shelter Manager during office hours)
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-centred and trauma-informed case management and are supported to secure more permanent housing options and pursue other support goals.
The Core & Cluster model allows for the expansion of The Haven - Nepean Women's Shelter. The shelter provides crucial supported accommodation services to women, with or without children who are at risk of homelessness or domestic and family violence through crisis accommodation and rapid rehousing.
We are building a new team of case workers, including youth and children’s family case workers. Join our team for this exciting new project.
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.
Please click 'Apply Now' to submit your application.
Applications will be reviewed as received and interviews will be scheduled accordingly.
Employment is subject to satisfactory background checks, which include National Police Checks, Working with Children Checks and Reference Checks.
We seek a workforce that is as diverse as our society, in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality and cultures that will reflect the communities we work in. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply.
Please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] using the subject line: Case Worker - Family, Youth and Children - The Haven - Nepean Women’s Shelter enquiry via EthicalJobs if you require a copy of the position description.