WOCHP provides a safe and stable long-term environment to give individuals the best chance for independence and self-determination.

The program emphasises social and emotional learning while enhancing self-awareness and social awareness. It offers daily support within a structured framework that promotes a welcoming and nurturing atmosphere, building on individuals’ strengths and identity pride.

Our vision is to ensure that Aboriginal Victorians secure appropriate, affordable housing as a pathway to better lives and stronger communities within the context of coordinated wrap around support services, build relationships that are important to the individuals, and access education and employment within a case management framework.

In addition the WOCHP will ensure meaningful participation for four residents in newly built, self contained units, with the aim of maximising staff-client engagement that speaks to strengths to maintain Aboriginal communities and cultural ties.

As the service delivery response worker, the Mentor and Recovery Support Coordinator plays a crucial role in the operational excellence of the program, overseeing daily operations, monitoring team, progress and strategies. You will be responsible for developing tailored workshops in collaboration with Executive Officer as well as engaging and managing strong partnerships with external key stakeholders while completing compliance reporting as required.

This includes embracing tenants’ rights and responsibilities and managing duty of care obligations between tenants, staff, family and facility visitors.

The role of the Mentor and Recovery Support Coordinator is not just about individual client support but also intake, assessing suitability and maintaining and administering the waitlist for clients who are suitable for future vacancies.

Additional foster and cultivate community relationships that support participants recovery needs, supervising staff with coordinated access to training and professional developments, scheduling participant movements, oversee planned visitors to facility, monitor workplace health and safety, organize meetings and stay up to date with current legislation and standards of practice.

In addition, access and ideally proven respect of Elders to enable the coordination of cultural ceremonies, and improve program needs in consultation with participants, stakeholders, elders, executives, support workers and volunteers.

The Mentor and Recovery Support Coordinator will report to the Executive Officer and foster a sense of connection and engagement within the program based on respect and significant knowledge shared.

We are looking for candidates who will bring a client-centred focus to the role with the following key attributes and skills:

• Confidence and competent awareness and appreciation of Aboriginal societies and cultures and an understanding of the issues affecting Aboriginal people in contemporary Australia and the diversity of circumstances of Aboriginal people.
• Strong knowledge and experience of community housing and operating within the legislative/regulatory environment of the Residential Tenancies Act and Housing Act.
• Demonstrated capacity to lead and positively influence a team of direct support staff.
• Develop and implement group and individual culturally relevant programs whilst encouraging individuality that meets the participants’ aspirations.
• Provide specialist cultural case management, service coordination day to day with demonstrated support planning to enable seamless program delivery between direct and indirect employers.
• You will demonstrate your ability for advocacy and support the empowerment of Aboriginal men, their families and communities.
• Demonstrate experience supporting participants and their families with complex needs, prevention and intervention strategies and access to services as part of recovery goals.
• Manage data collection and program reporting ensuring confidentiality and professionalism that is reflective to enable improved outcomes and program deliverables.
• Promote and maintain confidentiality and integrity that represents program guidelines, ensuring practice, policies and procedures that reflect a safe environment free of harm in the context of mitigating and or revealing risk factors for participants, staff and visitors to the facility.
• Demonstrated capacity to support and identify continuous improvement opportunities to existing management processes.
• Advanced interpersonal and communication skills that support the open and transparent engagement with participants, staff, members of the board and elders.
• Willingness to engage in training, professional development with regular supervision, possibly overtime and weekend work when operationally required.
• Availability rostered emergency response and or on call as required.
• The ideal candidate will have appropriate qualifications in community development, counselling, social work or equivalent relevance to community services. Consideration for experience of at least 5 years in a similar position and environment may be considered.
• Additionally, at minimum, candidates are expected to have a full driver’s licence, first aid levels one and two or, a commitment to obtain them within three months of commencing, and a willingness to undergo a national police check.

As a not for profit organisation employees will be able to access salary packaging.

For further details or submission of Applications, contact Merryn Stevenson, Executive Officer, Warrigunya Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation, email: [email protected], using the subject line: Holistic Well Being Mentor & Recovery Support Coordinator - Darriman enquiry via EthicalJobs, phone: 0492 984 212.

A position description is attached.