Where excellence meets opportunity - discover your next chapter with cohealth

• Part time (0.8 FTE) / Full time, fixed term role until Oct 2025
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

The Specialist Team Support will hold a small case load of clients and provide onsite leadership to a team of Housing Support Workers and staff with Lived Experience, including line management and practice supervision. The position will also assist with the management of the Site and day-to-day operations in partnership with Unison Housing.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Team leadership and oversee effective day-to-day operations
• Develop and implement client-directed, strengths-based client goal directed care plans
• Work collaboratively with clients to conduct intake and risk assessments, identifying needs, aspirations, and goals of clients
• Link clients into appropriate ongoing community services, including mental health services, AOD services, social support services and health services
• Support clients to establish and maintain their tenancies
• Deliver a consumer first service

What cohealth offers:

• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate

• A relevant tertiary qualification such as Social Work or equivalent experience in the housing, mental health, disability, or welfare sectors
• Demonstrated experience working with clients who have a history of homelessness and multiple and complex needs
• Victorian Driver's License required
• Proof of qualification to be sighted

Application Process

To apply for this job click "Apply Now".

You will be asked to upload your CV / resume and Cover Letter as well as address the key selection criteria. We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received.

If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Dave Lovelock [email protected] using the subject line: Specialist Team Support enquiry via EthicalJobs.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Check, a Working with Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-employment declaration form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia. Additionally, some roles will also require current AHPRA registration and/or NDIS Worker Screening Clearance.

Roles that are determined to be Risk Category A or B [staff that have direct and/or indirect contact with body substances and are at higher risk of occupational exposure to infections] will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza prior to commencement [A] or within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.