• Increase fortnight take-home pay with access to $15,900 salary packaging benefits!
• 10% gap discount for childcare services with Uniting Early Learning
• Permanent full-time position

About the opportunity

We are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Intake Coordinator to join our team. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for managing the intake of referrals, conducting placement matching, and overseeing case management and assessments. Your contributions will play a critical role in ensuring compliance with audit and quality standards while fostering positive and collaborative relationships with volunteers, stakeholders, and funding bodies.

As the Intake Coordinator – Out of Home Care, you will:

• Manage the intake process for referrals and conduct effective placement matching.
• Oversee case management and assessments, ensuring timely and accurate service delivery.
• Monitor and report on outcomes related to audit and quality compliance.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with volunteers, stakeholders, and funding bodies.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of services that address consumer needs.
• Identify and respond to evolving service development needs.
• Ensure all services meet and maintain accountability for statutory and reporting requirements.

What’s on offer

Join an organisation where we don’t just provide a service. We use our connections, our size, our scale, and our knowledge to push into places where we feel like we should be doing more.

In addition to receiving a salary equivalent to SCHADS Level 6 and superannuation, you’ll also receive 17.5% leave loading and an ability to increase your take-home pay by accessing up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits.

Paid parental leave (10 weeks) is available for eligible employees.

Receive 10% discount on the childcare subsidy gap fee when using a Uniting Early Learning service or centre.

About you

You will have a Bachelor level degree in Social Work or a related discipline. A Certificate IV in Training and Assessment as well as previous home-based care case management experience would be advantageous. You will also have:

• Experience and demonstrated ability to work with children and young people who have experienced past trauma and abuse.
• 1-2 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Working within a complex organisational structure, with the ability to multitask.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to work cooperatively, and relate/interact effectively at all levels within and outside of the organisation.
• Excellent time management skills, the ability to work under pressure and respond to competing/changing priorities and adapt easily to change.

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How to Apply

Click "Apply Now" to submit your interest and we’ll be in touch shortly. We’ll be reviewing applications as they come through as we’re keen to engage with someone.

If you have questions about the opportunity, please contact Stacey Hopkins – Manager Out of Home Care & Therapeutic Support Services on 0479 191 871.

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse range of services across Victoria and Tasmania.

Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org 

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and relevant Working with Children Check in your State prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

Uniting is also committed to equal opportunity and ensuring the workplace is reflective of the community. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability.