THE ROLE

Provide enhanced coordination of care and direct high-level support for clients with complex support needs including substance use.

Provide coordinated, integrated and accountable client care service in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team and the community, for clients at risk of or experiencing homelessness.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Undertake person centred comprehensive assessment & care planning in conjunction with persons seeking support.
• Work in partnerships with referring staff and agencies.
• Develop and implement referral pathways & facilitate access to range of community-based health and non-health services.
• Ensure treatments are targeted & culturally appropriate for Indigenous Australians including linkages to appropriate services.
• Maintain accurate client records, case notes and other data as directed and required.
• Provide direct support and referral in the particular focus areas of employment, training/education, daily living skills, homelessness/housing, social engagement and participation and family and community reconnection.

YOU WILL NEED

• Relevant tertiary qualification/s or VET sector qualification and significant ongoing experience.
• Demonstrated experience in coordinating care for persons with complex support needs (including in particular AOD support needs co-occurring with serious mental health issues and other issues such as homelessness, trauma, contact with the criminal justice system and family and cultural separation).
• Demonstrated ability to undertake assessment including utilising standardised tools.
• Demonstrated ability to work therapeutically with clients (e.g. provide therapeutic (treatment) interventions).
• Demonstrated ability to conduct self in a professional, ethical and non-judgmental manner.
• Willingness to work within the CCCP, the Society’s AOD Model of Care and the Society’s Client-centred Service Delivery Model.
• Knowledge of, and ability to access, a range of relevant community resources.
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and to work independently and unsupervised.
• Computer literacy skills including experience in computerised data collection.
• NSW driver licence (will be required to drive and sometimes provide client transportation)

APPLY NOW

If this sounds like you, don’t wait - apply now, we are interviewing applications as we receive them.

If you have questions about this role, or require an easy-read position description, please email [email protected] using the subject line: Outreach Case Workers x2 - Newcastle enquiry via EthicalJobs.

St Vincent de Paul Society (NSW) welcomes people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to engaging a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, candidates of any or no religious beliefs and applicants of all ages. If you are a candidate with disability please let us know if you require any support to participate in the application and recruitment process.

The Society is committed to being a Child Safe organisation, further information can be found in the Society’s commitment to Safeguarding Children & Young People. Prior to an offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete the pre-employment checks including a Police check & Working with Children check. A health / medical assessment may be required for some roles.