Case Manager Navigator Hume Merri-bek

Two exciting opportunities (one parental leave position, one contracted position) exist for suitably experienced and qualified individuals to take on a case management role within the Hume Merri-bek team. The suitable candidates will have knowledge and/or experience working with young people experiencing mental illness, neurodiversity, disability; and those who may be part of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Case Managers are responsible for providing individually tailored outreach support to disengaged learners within the context of their families, whilst developing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders across a range of sectors.

The Navigator Hume Merri-bek team is based in Brunswick.

Two (2) full time positions available with an attractive salary in the range of $85,126 – $91,587, plus salary packaging benefit, together with ongoing professional and career development.

About the program

Navigator is a program funded by state government which aims to support disengaged learners aged 10-17 years old to re-engage with an education. Jesuit Social Services delivers the Navigator Program in Hume Merri-bek.

The Navigator Program provides case management and outreach support to the most severely disengaged learners, to help create a pathway back into education. Navigator works one-on-one with young people and their families and schools to provide disengaged students with the specific and tailored support they need to reengage in education. Case managers work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and also work closely with schools and key stakeholders to support each young person’s individualised pathway back to regular attendance at school and engagement in learning.

Candidate requirements

• Tertiary qualification/s and/or relevant experience in field
• An understanding of the factors that can contribute to a child’s disengagement from learning and education; and the ability to work holistically with disengaged learners and their families/carers to re-engage in learning and increase school attendance. 
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of key child developmental stages and age-appropriate strategies and interventions to support disengaged learners and their families/carers to re-engage in learning and increase school and a clear understanding of case management, intensive support, crisis intervention and assertive outreach. 
• Capacity to work with a high degree of cultural competency and understanding of culturally appropriate service delivery in relation to Aboriginal young people, their families and communities, and in relation to CALD young people, their families and communities. 
• Experience working with families and ability to use a range of strategies around family issues such as family violence, family breakdown and school disengagement.