Case Worker - TAFE Students Preferred null

The support you provide will be crucial in helping people stabilise and sustain their accommodation and ultimately transition away from homelessness. This is a highly rewarding and diverse role with a mixture of outreach, tenancy and crisis case management support

 Your responsibilities: 

• Engage with persons sleeping rough and/or those people in danger of becoming homeless.
• Undertake home visits with clients located in temporary, transitional or permanent accommodation.
• Refer clients to appropriate external services and link to life skill and educational programs
• Create collaborative partnerships with other key stakeholders and services.
• Offer client support at all times with a respectful, non-judgmental and inclusive manner, upholding and respecting the rights of clients at all times while maintaining client confidentiality.
• Develop case plans with the clients, provide ongoing support to achieve the case plan and monitor the case plan.
• Attend to the primary needs of clients and maintain client records/case notes, both electronic and handwritten.
• Meeting service targets as required by the manager, Society and/or external agencies

To be successful, you will need: 

• Engage with persons sleeping rough and/or those people in danger of becoming homeless.
• Create collaborative partnerships with other key stakeholders and services.
• Ability to provide respectful, non-judgmental, and inclusive support upholding and respecting the rights and privacy of clients at all times.
• Develop case plans with the clients, provide ongoing support to achieve the case plan, and monitor the case plan.
• Attend to the primary needs of clients and maintain client records/case notes, both electronic and handwritten.
• Meeting service targets as required by the organisation and/or external agencies
• Excellent written and oral communication skills & sound computer skills
• NSW driver licence. 

If this sounds like you, don’t wait - apply now, we are interviewing applications as we receive them. Submit your application with a resume. For more about the role, see the Position Description.  

If you have questions about this role, or require an easy read Position Description, please email Candeda.Smith@vinnies.org.au quote: Case Worker / VIN3154