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Redress Worker

Micah Projects

Micah Projects is a not-for-profit organisation committed to providing services and opportunities in the community to create justice and respond to injustice. We engage with people experiencing adversity due to poverty, homelessness, mental illness, domestic violence, disability and all forms of discrimination.

Micah Projects works to break down barriers that exclude people from housing, healthcare, employment, meaningful connections, and to give people a voice. We assist and support each individual or family including children, to resolve crisis, break social isolation. Micah Projects is an equal opportunity employer and promotes access to positions to individuals from a diverse range of social and cultural groups.

The Redress Worker provides flexible, timely and transparent practical assistance and emotional support to people engaging with the National Redress Scheme (the Scheme).

This position will involve:

  • Providing participants with clear, accurate and accessible information about the Scheme.
  • Providing guidance and support to people considering to apply to the Scheme, while considering the needs and experiences of people who experiences institutional child sexual abuse.
  • Assisting participants to complete the application and assist to interact with the Scheme – acting as a nominee where appropriate and agreed with the participant.
  • Providing support, including outreach, to cohorts or agreed locations to access to the Scheme.

This is a fixed term, full time role to June 2022 with a minimum of 38 hours of work available per week and is classified under the SCHADS Award as a Level 5.

The National Redress Scheme was created in response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The Scheme will offer three components of redress:

  • Access to counselling and psychological care.
  • Acknowledgement and recognition for people who want it, through a direct personal response from the institution responsible for the abuse; and
  • A monetary payment.

We are seeking candidates with the following skills & experience:

  • Demonstrated understanding of the prevalence and nature of trauma arising from childhood sexual abuse in an institutional setting.
  • Significant knowledge and experience working with people who have a disability.
  • Relevant tertiary education/qualification and extensive experience, or, a combination of experience, expertise and competence.
  • Current Drivers Licence.
  • Ability to work in Australia.

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