Two part-time (20 hours/week) positions available in Rockingham.

Assertive Outreach Workers are at the forefront of St Patrick's Community Support Centre in providing client facing support interventions.

Our service model focuses on ensuring people who are sleeping rough are linked into appropriate services to help them find and maintain suitable long-term accommodation. The Rockingham Assertive Outreach Service will focus on:

• Identifying people sleeping rough in the Rockingham area,
• Engaging people in appropriate services and refer them into housing or other suitable accommodation and/or services, and
• Working with Housing First Assertive Case Workers to support people to maintain their accommodation and prevent them from cycling back into homelessness.

The role provides support and assertive interventions to clients in order to assist them in improving their mental health, general health and social wellbeing, accessing and maintaining housing, improving their quality of life, maximising self-management, independence and participation in the community.

Local people living in the Rockingham area are strongly encouraged to apply.

To apply for this position please go to the job listing on our webpage by clicking Apply Now.