About the Role 

This role is responsible for the delivery of a range of evidence based, trauma informed, culturally competent and responsive services to enhance the capability and capacity of people experiencing homelessness identified through this program to maintain and secure their long-term housing. The key aim is to transition people onto a trajectory away from homelessness into long term, stable housing, whilst improving overall personal wellbeing. 

This is a senior case management and case plan delivery role providing person centred approaches and responses to complex cases of entrenched homelessness. You will take the lead role for the Together Home Program with a therapeutic framework. The role will include providing direction and support to the part time case worker who will work with you in this program.

This position is based in Campbelltown and works across Campbelltown and Wingecarribee in the Together Home Program in the Children, Youth and Families directorate. 

This is a short term contract working 35 hours per week until 31st December 2020.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Provide intensive casework and wrap-around support and case management services that is tailored to the persons needs.
• Practice in accordance with strength based, trauma informed and person centred approaches and other evidence based practice models.
• Provide person centred responses that include intensive multi-disciplinary support recognised as best practice with complex needs.
• Take responsibility for liaising with external services and stakeholders that make up the support network for participants including communities and families where appropriate.
• Work with our mental health consultants and with all Uniting SWS Youth and Homelessness services and teams collaboratively promoting an integrated approach to all service delivery.
• Provide access to culturally appropriate health, mental health and wellbeing services where appropriate.
• Facilitate, support and develop where appropriate the rebuilding of family, community and cultural connections.
• Provide support to enhance the development of daily living and self-management skills where appropriate.
• Facilitate engagement with positive structured activities such as social groups, education and or employment where appropriate.
• Administer any outcome measurement tools required by the program and enter data into relevant data bases in a timely and accurate manner.
• Operate with openness to learning and developing existing knowledge on various psychological theory and practice such as approaches to trauma, mental health, drug and alcohol and domestic violence.
• Work flexibly both on site at Uniting and remotely with complex cases whilst maintaining high level professionalism.
• Be available to participate in an on-call roster.

About You: 

• Degree qualifications in Social Work, Psychology or a related Bachelors degree with relevant casework and or clinical experience with at risk people experience long term and or entrenched homelessness.
• The ability to assess and work with individuals utilising best practice for participants with complex needs such as entrenchment in homelessness and people with chronic physical and mental health issues, drug and alcohol related issues or people at continued risk of domestic and family violence.
• Demonstrated ability to engage with participants in crisis and work in partnership with them to achieve their goals, using a variety of evidence based intervention strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to provide evidence based, trauma informed, culturally competent and responsive services.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and include intensive multi-disciplinary support services as part of person centered support plans.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with all services, programs and professionals.
• Demonstrated understanding of the most recent child protection legislation including experience of assessing child protection issues and an ability to conduct risk and family assessments using strengths based approach and undertaking reports to appropriate authorities.
• Experience working with people experiencing domestic violence.
• Experience in supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in providing culturally safe and sensitive interventions.
• Experience in engaging successfully with people from CALD backgrounds.
• Demonstrated ability to work co-operatively with colleagues (internal and external). 

For further information on the role please contact Zoe Banbury on 0428 734 381 or email [email protected], using the subject line: Intensive Case Worker enquiry via EthicalJobs.  

This role is targeted to providing welfare services to vulnerable Men and their families. Accordingly, it is a genuine occupational requirement that the role be fulfilled by a male as provided for in the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW).

Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks which include a National Police Check and Reference Check.