Community Connections Program Case Manager

Community Connections Program Case Manager

North Melbourne VIC 3051

• Part-Time – 0.6 EFT and 0.7 EFT – Permanent Roles
• $ 37.54 – $ 44.89 per hour + Superannuation + NFP Salary Packaging 
• Rainbow Tick accredited organisation

About the role

VincentCare Victoria is currently looking for a passionate and experienced individual to join the Community Connections program! As the Case Manager, you will work closely with various stakeholders to provide support to marginalised individuals experiencing crisis or homelessness. You will be utilising short-term and medium-term case management strategies to stabilise a client’s crisis, identify and implement seamless pathways to ongoing supports, creating linkages, advocating and supporting clients to access mainstream and specialist services, particularly housing and health services.

We have a lot of work to do in this space. In your first year you will work on:

• Providing assertive outreach to engage with clients around their unmet health needs and to link the with the Community Connections Program;
• Utilising persistent and assertive engagement techniques to establish and maintain a robust professional relationship with clients;
• Managing a case load in an Outreach case management capacity;
• And plenty of other interesting initiatives…

About you

You are an appropriately qualified professional with experience in providing high level assessments, case planning and support response to people experiencing homelessness.

You are well known for your collaborative, integrated and client centred approach to providing tailored support to your clients. You are thorough and detailed in your practice of completing ongoing assessments, case planning and review, and making appropriate referrals. These skills have enabled you to successfully stabilise the client’s crisis, create pathways to ongoing supports, and facilitate access to appropriate and sustainable housing.

You are passionate about working closely with a client to enable and empower.

What We Are Looking For:

• Experience working in an assertive outreach capacity to engage with clients and to link them with support;
• Experience in case management practice and navigating service systems with and for clients;
• Demonstrated understanding of the range of needs and issues affecting people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness;
• Highly developed communication and relationship management skills;
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and as a member of a team;
• A strong alignment to the values of VincentCare.

Why work for us?  We offer:

• An opportunity to contribute to an award-winning Not-For-Profit organisation. 
• 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. 
• We are committed to professional development to make sure that your career keeps growing while you’re working with us. 
• We like to have a laugh and you will always find some sort of chocolate or cake in our work area… be prepared!
• We believe in families, so we like to provide a family-friendly environment in which to work. 
• We have some great talent who are happy to share their experience and skills to help you on your way. 
• We offer a place where you know you are contributing to an organisation committed to helping others. We are passionate about #Social Justice.

Grow with VincentCare

If you would like to have a confidential discussion regarding the role please contact Stacey Hill on 0499 200 873

All appointments within VincentCare Victoria are subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks. These will include a police check, character/performance reference checks, working with children check, and providing your COVID-19 vaccination certificate.

 VincentCare welcomes applications from people from diverse cultural & linguistic backgrounds including people who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Aboriginal and/ or Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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.