Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 27th Mar 2020
Neami Street to Home service provides culturally appropriate, assertive outreach and case management to homelessness people sleeping rough in the Adelaide CBD within a Housing First approach.
The assertive outreach model is aimed at providing integrated services that focus on consumer identified goals, improved health outcomes and transition from homelessness to safe, secure and sustainable long term accommodation. We persist and work with people over the medium to long term supporting people to maintain their tenancies once they are in housing.
Street to Home staff will be responsible for engaging individuals sleeping rough within the Adelaide CBD, North Adelaide and surrounding parklands. Community Rehabilitation and Support Workers (CRSWs) and Street Outreach Workers (SOWs) (terminology used interchangeably) are responsible for providing assertive outreach patrols to rough sleepers with the aim of providing integrated services that focus on consumer identified goals, improved health outcomes and transition from homelessness to safe, secure and sustainable long term accommodation. We persist and work with people over the medium to long term supporting people to maintain their tenancies once they are in housing.
Neami National is a community mental health service supporting people living with mental illness to improve their health, live independently and pursue a life based on their own strengths, values and goals.
In our most recent Staff Engagement Survey, 89% of our Staff recommend Neami as a great place to work, with 88% of staff proud to say they work for Neami.
A position description is attached.