• Leading community services organisation
• Salary packaging and competitive sector remuneration
• Permanent full time opportunity
• Based at Mount Waverley

About the opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate Transitional Support Worker to join our Homelessness Support Services Program. Within the Program, our HOPE (Housing Options Program Eastern) team provides early intervention outreach support to families, single adults and couples who are homeless, or at risk of experiencing homelessness. The team assists clients to access and maintain housing, and break the cycle of homelessness.

As a Transitional Support Worker, you will provide engaging case management support to clients from a diverse range of backgrounds. The role will empower clients to identify and address their individual support needs that contributed to their homelessness. The Transitional Support Worker will engage clients through outreach, assist clients to establish and maintain sustainable tenancies, and support them to access relevant specialist services and resources.

View the full position description here

About you

To be successful in your application you will meet the person specification in the position description, including having a Diploma of Community Services, Welfare Work or a related discipline. A degree qualification in Social Work would be highly regarded.

You will also have:

• Demonstrated case management experience within the homelessness services or community housing sectors
• Previous experience in assisting clients to access and maintain private rental housing
• An understanding of relevant regulations and legislation including the Victorian Residential Tenancies Act
• Knowledge of the Specialist Homelessness Information Platform (SHIP)
• Strong communication, organisation and problem solving skills

How to Apply

If this sounds like you, find out more about this role or click "Apply Now". Please upload the following as part of your application:

• Cover letter (outlining your suitability according to the position description)
• Current resume

Get in touch

Abi Cohen – Homelessness Team Leader
T: (03) 9051 3000

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

Visit us: unitingvictas.org.au 

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.

We work in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australia’s First Peoples and as the traditional owners and custodians of this land. We celebrate diversity and value the lived experience of people of every ethnicity, faith, age, disability, culture, language, gender identity, sex and sexual orientation. We welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse and non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people at our services. We pledge to provide inclusive and non-discriminatory services.