Engagement Worker - Community Hub

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• Location: Inner Melbourne Community Hub – North Melbourne
• Work type: Part Time 60.8 hours per fortnight – Ongoing
• Salary: SCHADS 4 at $46.70 - $50.25 per hour + Superannuation + NFP Salary Packaging
• Working model: On Site

About the role

VincentCare Victoria is seeking an experienced and qualified person to take on the position of Engagement Worker within the new Ozanam House accommodation and Homeless Resource Centre.

The role aims to provide a safe and supportive drop-in and accommodation environment, and to co-ordinate the practical aspects of the Homeless Resource Centre and on-site accommodation. Engagement workers provide a variety of supports to clients ranging from assertive engagement, monitoring, managing challenging behaviours and facilitation of planned activity groups. The Engagement worker will work within a multi-faceted team and has a primary focus of facilitating engagement and participation of clients within the service.

The role sits within the Engagement team and workers must demonstrate unconditional positive regard and develop genuine, non-judgemental and predictable relationships with people through their journey of crisis, recovery and growth. A strong service delivery focus of engagement and participation to support people in their recovery journey out of homelessness is the core work of the team.

Key Selection Criteria

• Demonstrated understanding of the range of needs and issues affecting people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
• Experience in direct service delivery within the human services field.
• An empowering approach, demonstrating flexibility and initiative, in working with homeless individuals.
• Ability to work well within a team environment.
• Excellent communication skills, including knowledge of conflict resolution.
• Ability to be available to work a rotating roster including weekends, evenings, and public holidays.
• Evidenced administrative accuracy and detail, including timely data entry.
• A current Working with Children’s Check is required.

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About You

You are a compassionate and professional individual with a strong understanding of the causes and impacts of homelessness. You thrive in a client-facing role and are skilled at creating a welcoming and respectful environment for all who walk through the door. You have experience greeting and triaging clients, visitors, staff, volunteers and service providers, ensuring smooth communication and follow-up with relevant teams. You are confident answering calls in a courteous manner, managing inquiries, transferring calls, and relaying messages efficiently. You can provide clear, accurate information about housing options and support resources to individuals experiencing housing stress or homelessness.

Why join Vincentcare?

• Salary packaging, sometimes called salary sacrificing is a huge attraction here! It is a popular way of providing employees in the community sector with tax benefits over and above their salary. It means the real value of a salary package can be significantly higher than the nominal value.
• Career Development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program
• We offer a place where you know you are contributing to a firm committed to helping others. We are passionate about #SocialJustice.

About Vincentcare Victoria

VincentCare Victoria is an award-winning organisation established to provide a range of accommodation and support services to people that are facing disadvantage throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria.

We are a leading community-focused organisation dedicated to supporting people experiencing disadvantage, including homelessness and those impacted by family violence. We are committed to the principles of social justice and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion.

VincentCare has over three hundred dedicated, talented and enthusiastic staff working across a range of programs and services and offers a number of benefits including career development opportunities; salary packaging; study leave; family friendly, flexible working environment.

VincentCare is committed to demonstrating the principles of self-determination, reconciliation, intersectional inclusion, equity, and social justice. This means that we will resolutely:

• Take specific steps to ensure that all staff, volunteers and clients feel valued and are treated with dignity and respect.
• Celebrate people’s diverse physical and cognitive abilities, mental or cognitive health status, cultural background and ethnicity, gender identity, sex characteristic, sexual orientation, age, faith or non-faith.
• Critically review our work to identify disadvantages and we actively seek to place the voices and expertise of marginalised people at the centre of our actions when improving our inclusion strategies.
• Lead by example in how we challenge disadvantage and contribute to a more equitable world which is free from discrimination and marginalisation.

Want to know more?

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How to apply

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, we’d love to hear from you.

Please submit:

• Your CV
• A short cover letter outlining your suitability

Please note: applications will be reviewed as they are received and the role may close earlier. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Phone enquiries may be made to Stella Giordano, Manager – Coordination, Engagement and Participation, on 0437 962 538.

Important information

• Pre-employment checks are required (including National Police Check, Working With Children Check and right to work)
• We are committed to child safety
• We value diversity and inclusion and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all backgrounds

No agencies please.

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