Organisation : Housing for the Aged Action Group
Location : Melbourne
Work type : Part-time, Contract/Temporary
Sector : Aged Care & Seniors, Community Support Services, Homelessness & Affordable Housing
Salary type : Hourly
Application closing date : 28 Aug, 2022
About the organisation
Housing for the Aged Action Group is a community-based organisation specialising in the housing needs of older people. The organisation was formed just over 30 years ago and today has over 500 members that actively campaign for housing justice. We are committed to the principles of social justice and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their age, cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, intersex variation, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs.
Our Services: Home at Last
Home at Last is a unique specialist housing service for older people, providing information, support, advice, and advocacy. This includes:
• State-wide Information and Referral – providing support to over 1000 older people a year with information on housing options, referrals to housing support and other services.
• Outreach Case-Management Support – a service for older people on low-incomes who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, to assist them into long-term affordable housing (mainly social housing). Assistance includes housing applications, support during moving, establishing a new home and referrals into aged care and other supports. We house over 100 people a year, 60% of them women.
• Retirement Housing advice and advocacy – specialist information, support and advocacy for people interested in, or living in, retirement housing. This includes lower cost retirement villages, residential parks, rental villages, and caravan parks.
• Aged Care Service Navigation – assistance to register for aged care services
About the role
Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of older people? Join our small organisation and work with older people towards achieving housing justice. Great conditions, supportive team, satisfying work contributing to changing the lives of older people in housing stress.
We are seeking an enthusiastic Housing Support Outreach worker to join our Housing Support team providing outreach case-management support to older people at risk of, or experiencing, homelessness. You will have high levels of empathy for older people in stressful housing situations and a professional manner with service providers.
You will be assisting clients to find long-term affordable housing, linking them in with other services, and assisting them to move where appropriate. The client group is made up of 50% culturally diverse older people, so experience in working with older, culturally diverse people, an understanding of cultural barriers, and experience with using interpreters or speaking a community language, will be an advantage in this role.
Knowledge of the social housing sector, the aged care service system, and the health and community services sectors is desirable. Experience in working within community member-based organisations will be an advantage.
HAAG is committed to recruiting a diverse range of people with a diverse range of skills and experience to help us achieve our goals. We encourage applications from those with a lived experience of homelessness or housing stress, culturally and linguistically diverse, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals. The ability to speak a community language other than English is an advantage.
Housing for the Aged Action Group provides generous above award salary and conditions.
All applicants must have the right to work in Australia and will be required to complete a Working with Children Check and Police check.
Position descriptions can also be found on our website: www.oldertenants.org.au.
For more information, please contact Christine Stapleton, Client Services Manager,Ph: 0396547389
How to apply
Applications not allowed for this job listing.
Please quote in application: Housing Support Outreach Worker via Pro Bono Australia.
Sector: #Aged_Care_and_Seniors, #Community_Support_Services, #Homelessness_and_Affordable_Housing