Why join Launch Housing

Our mission is to end homelessness. We aim to get people housed, keep them housed, and be an influential voice on ending homelessness.

We are a secular, independent provider of choice for clients and we're striving to be the go-to organisation on homelessness for government, media, philanthropy, private donors and the community.Our people are the backbone of our organisation and supporting their wellbeing and professional development is critical to our ability to help our clients and the community. We value lived experience and diversity in our staff, and actively work to ensure everyone is able to make their career with Launch Housing fulfilling.

Launch Housing is working to become more trauma informed and as a leading employer in the homelessness sector, it is important to let you know that you will hear stories of distress, hardship, trauma, or violence when working with us. We encourage you to reflect on how this may impact you when considering applying for the role. Sustaining the Health & Well-being of our staff is our priority. We provide high-quality training & supervision, Wellbeing Days, and access to Employee Assistance Program.

Our permanent and fixed-term employee benefits include:

• Contributing to useful and rewarding work and giving something back to the community• Wellbeing days, ceremonial leave, carers leave and study leave
• Flexible working arrangements
• Purchased leave
• 17.5% leave loading
• 8 weeks’ gender neutral paid parental leave after 12 months of service for both the primary and secondary carer
• Training and career growth opportunities across Launch Housing
• A portion of your income can be tax-free by salary packaging your personal expenses
• Additional tax-free salary packaging on dining and accommodation expenses
• Positive, supportive and progressive work environment

About the opportunity

The Pregnancy Outreach Program aims to address the gaps within the homelessness service system, and bridge the divide between homelessness services and health services in order to create better outcomes for pregnant women experiencing homelessness. The Program does this by providing pregnant women with enhanced case management support, advocacy, information and referral pathways.

The Senior Worker – Youth Pregnancy Support position is responsible for providing high quality, client focused case management services to clients who are pregnant, experiencing homelessness and have complex needs. The primary purpose of this role is to assist with the immediate and ongoing support needs of young women (16-25), that are pregnant and at risk of or experiencing homelessness.

The program provides a range of flexible support services and high-level coordination to pregnant women for support periods of up to 12 weeks This case management support model is delivered through a feminist, strength based and trauma informed lens, to maximise independence and minimise service dependence, with a primary focus on empowering young pregnant women to navigate their health, pregnancy, and childbirth.

This role will be based at the Women’s Services Crisis Accommodation service based in St Kilda East with some outreach and out posting at other internal and/or external sites and services required

Launch Housing East St Kilda is one of the only crisis services in Victoria to employ and accommodate women (including trans and gender diverse individuals who identify as female). As such, only candidates who are women or who identify as female will be considered.

This is a maximum-term part-time role until June 2025, working 60.8 hours per fortnight.

What you'll be doing:

• Provide comprehensive case management to young pregnant clients, including assistance with accommodation, advocacy, assessment, referral, and the development of community supports.

• Conduct comprehensive assessments of clients' needs in order to develop collaborative case plans.
• Developing case plans in conjunction with clients and implement strategies that enable clients to achieve their goals by building on their strengths and focusing on solutions.

• Initiating and maintaining contact with vulnerable clients using flexible engagement strategies to achieve case plan goals.

• Advocating on behalf of clients and arranging referrals to other agencies to ensure access and delivery of appropriate services, including with generalist and mental health services, pregnancy health, birthing support, drug and alcohol services, legal institutes, government and non-government service providers.

• Integrate the role within the various sites of operation and maintain strong connections with the Women Services team at East St. Kilda.

• Initiating and attending case management meetings with professionals involved with clients ensuring collaborative service delivery.

What we're looking for (key selection criteria):

• Have a relevant tertiary qualification (desirable).
• Demonstrated experience in the delivery of services to clients with complex needs, whom are pregnant and experiencing homelessness.

• Demonstrated understanding of housing and homelessness policy, context and systems.
• Sound understanding of antenatal / postnatal support needs for women who are pregnant.
• Sound understanding of attachment theory.
• Sound understanding of dual diagnosis.
• Ability to work effectively with people experiencing complex life stress with past / present trauma experiences.
• Demonstrated ability to provide co- case management with multi-disciplinary services in order to provide effective client solutions.

• Good interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Well-developed organisational and time management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build positive relationships and communicate with people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.
• Demonstrated commitment to the values of Launch Housing and our mission to end homelessness.

For more information, please reach out to Vanessa Hulands on [email protected].

Shortlisting will occur on a rolling basis so Please don't delay your applications.

How to Apply

To apply for this opportunity, please click on "Apply Now" button. Please submit a cover letter addressing the key selection criteria and your CV.

For a copy of the position description please contact us at [email protected] using the subject line: Senior Worker - Youth Pregnancy Support enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Launch Housing offers a wide range of career opportunities and employs a diverse range of talent. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons to apply! We acknowledge, respect and celebrate Aboriginal cultures, languages, connections to Country and heritage, customs and practices. We're committed to support Aboriginal peoples to obtain genuine and fulfilling career with us!

Launch Housing is a dog-friendly organisation, which allows dog owners to bring them in some of our sites, please contact the relevant Hiring Manager if you have any questions or concerns prior to your interview.

If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know at [email protected].

Launch Housing is committed to being a child safe organisation and has zero tolerance to child abuse. Our hiring process involves rigorous screening of applicants. All of our people including students, contractors and volunteers must hold a valid Working with Children Check and satisfactory criminal history record check.

Launch Housing is an Equal Opportunity employer and supports accessible working arrangements for all. This includes people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse people, young people, older people, women, and people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse, intersex or queer. We acknowledge Lived Experience as a unique expertise and encourage people with a Lived Experience of Homelessness to apply. All applicants must have the right to work in Australia.