Job Summary
- $78,969 inclusive of super and attractive salary packaging options
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 12th Apr 2024
- Brisbane & Gold Coast > CBD & Inner Suburbs Brisbane
Caxton Community Legal Centre’s purpose is to promote and protect human rights in Queensland through access to justice. Caxton provides accessible legal information so people know their rights and can prevent or respond to legal problems. Prioritising those who experience disadvantage, trauma and marginalisation, Caxton provides free, high-quality legal assistance and social supports. Caxton advocates for reform to unfair laws, policies and systems. Working collaboratively with volunteers and community partners, Caxton reaches underserved populations. We do all of this to create a more just and inclusive Queensland.
The Intake Social Worker role sits within the Client Services Team. The Client Services Team is the first point of contact for most clients either in person or by phone/email. The Intake Social Worker is a client facing role, providing the first point of contact with clients. Predominantly, the role is to undertake an initial assessment of each client’s social and legal services needs to understand whether Caxton can assist or if a referral to an alternate organisation would be more suitable. The majority this work each day is phone-based.
We are keen to hear from early career social workers with exceptional interpersonal skills, who are interested in working within a human rights-based, multidisciplinary model and believe in Caxton’s values and vision!
The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate:
Caxton Legal Centre has played a central part in Queensland’s legal landscape over the past 40 years, leading the state’s first Stolen Wages case, successfully representing well over 100 victims of the 2011 floods, and paving the way for multidisciplinary service delivery to people experiencing elder abuse.
We are an engaged, passionate and talented group of lawyers, social workers and administrative staff with whom you are encouraged to collaborate with and learn from in order to meet our client’s needs.
Our full-time staff enjoy a 35 hour working week paid at the full-time Award rate, with time off in lieu if additional approved hours are worked.
Paid Christmas leave is provided during the office shut-down period to New Years in addition to four weeks paid annual leave.
Caxton is currently experiencing significant growth and change across many of its programs; these roles represent investments into the future of our service delivery and capabilities across South-East Queensland.
A position description is attached below.