Job description
- Rewarding, community-based role
- Support newly arrived migrants and refugees settle in Australia
- Hybrid working environment – one day from home and four from office
- $43.08 – $46.35/hr+ 11.5% superannuation + not for profit salary packaging
- Perm Full Time
About us
MiCare is a non-profit providing services to people from a range of diverse backgrounds in the areas of aged care, home care, retirement living and migrant services. Our mission is to enable migrants to have comfortable, enjoyable, dignified, and meaningful lives.
About the role
The Senior Settlement Worker will equip eligible clients (including adults, families, and young people from migrant/refugee background), to address their identified settlement needs in order to improve social participation, economic well-being, independence, personal well-being and community connectedness more broadly.
The Senior Settlement Worker is responsible for the provision of high-quality case management (Low Medium and High intensity casework) and community development initiatives. The position operates within MiCare’s Integrated Family/Client Service.
- Employ a strength-based, client-centred, & trauma-informed approach that promotes self-efficiency and agency.
- Maintain up to date and integrated understanding of mainstream service providers, referral processes, relevant legislation and frameworks.
- Deliver case management services (high, medium and low intensity)
- Meet identified community needs thorough groupwork initiatives
- Ensure quality and safety of service delivery. Contribute to and engage in continuous improvement activities that enhance best practice.
- Maintain data collection, client records, to meet all funding body and legislative requirements. Contribute to financial oversight of program/activities as required.
About you
- Appropriate Tertiary qualifications in Social Work or other relevant human/social sciences and/or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Demonstrated skills/experience in Casework/Case Management, conducting needs assessments, developing, and reviewing case plans, providing information, referral, advice and case co-ordination.
- Excellent relationship management and communication skills including the ability to develop and maintain collaborative partnerships with individuals, communities, and key stakeholders.
- National Police Check, Working With Children Check and must be attained.
- Current driver’s licence.
- Evidence of current flu vaccination and COVID-19.
Why MiCare?
- Family friendly, work/life balance workplace
- Hybrid client facing role
- Generous salary packaging benefits for the non-profit sector
- Rewarding and meaningful work
A position description is attached.