Recovery Support Worker
Job No:
S3346
Location:
Anglicare SQ - Homelessness Services Women & Families - Toowong, QLD
About the Position
Anglicare SQ provides an integrated service of support in our Homelessness Services, Women & Families located at Toowong, and are currently looking for a part time Recovery Support Worker to join this dedicated team of professionals. The Recovery Support Worker will work alongside women who are experiencing / at risk of homelessness who would benefit from support to transition towards independent living. You will provide one on one practical support, working weekends 8.30am – 4.30pm and or overnight 5pm – 9am which includes a sleepover component, to support a safe and secure environment for women in the residential facility.
About You
We’re seeking a Support Worker to join our team on a part time basis and provide a high standard of responsive, strength-based practical support within a trauma-informed framework to all service users in our residential services, in accordance with their individual needs and circumstances.
Our successful applicant will have:
- Tertiary qualifications in Human Services or similar field
- An understanding of the issues affecting women who are homeless; young and adult women; women who are pregnant and parenting
- A passion for providing strengths-based services to clients
- Strong team work skills
- Ability to work autonomously within a larger multidisciplinary team
- A current Queensland Driver Licence
- A current Blue Card (Working with Children)
- Availability to work a range of shifts including sleepovers and weekends
Due to the nature of this role only female applicants will be considered. This is arguable under Section 25 of the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act 1991.
Most importantly, you will possess the commitment and drive to make a real contribution to our service and the outcomes we achieve in the community.
What We Offer
Anglicare is committed to building a highly skilled workforce, assisted by a dedicated management team. We support our staff with learning and development initiatives, an employee benefits program and progressive human resources management strategies, and are recognised as a leading employer in the non-profit sector. You will also enjoy:
- Working with a great team of professionals who care
- Increase your take home pay with Salary Packaging options
- Work and life balance with part time hours
- Genuine and realistic personal and professional development, including training and networking events
Show Your Interest
Apply now and be rewarded with a position that directly and positively influences the quality of life for our clients; working with an organisation that values your professional contribution and personal well-being. People of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island heritage are strongly encouraged to apply.
JOB NUMBER S3346
For further information please contact
Wendy Mathews on 07 3377 3106
Applications close Sunday 25th March 2018
Shortlisted applicants will be asked to complete a Pre-Employment Assessment that requires disclosure of pre-existing injuries, illnesses or conditions that could reasonably be aggravated by performing the duties of this position.
About Us
Anglicare Southern Queensland is a proud member of the Anglicare Australia network. We provide the support you need for the life you want in partnership with government and other support organisations in response to identified care needs throughout southeast Queensland.
For over 140 years our staff have connected with people on every step of their life path, responding with compassion, creativity, commitment and courage to the needs of the members of our community who require support.
Every day the passionate staff and volunteers of Anglicare Southern Queensland are working to respond to growing community demand for our services. Whether it is providing nursing care and domestic assistance in the home, physiotherapy to enable the return of mobility, emergency accommodation for victims of domestic violence, working with foster carers in the care of vulnerable children, a safe caring environment for the elderly, skills training for young unemployed people or parental education and counselling, Anglicare Southern Queensland is here, to offer the best quality support to enable you to live the life that you want.
We also offer a range of specialist services within indigenous, homeless, multicultural and rural and remote communities. The work of Anglicare Southern Queensland stretches from Cairns to Coolangatta, from Birdsville to Brisbane and reaches out to support to people of all ages with a variety of needs.
Anglicare Southern Queensland has a workforce of over 2500 people in Queensland across residential aged care, community care and a range of social services programs all working towards a happier, healthier community.