About the Role

You will:

• Provide culturally safe casework services to clients using appropriate and evidence based social and emotional wellbeing assessments and frameworks through all stages of service delivery
• Ensure a comprehensive, individually tailored and culturally appropriate case management plan is in place, inclusive of both social and physical health needs for each client allocated for support
• Work in partnership with other Nunkuwarrin Yunti social and emotional wellbeing and primary health care programs to ensure wrap around supports are provided to each client allocated for support
• Referral, advocacy and liaison activities are undertaken with external government and non-government agencies to ensure clients are provided with the best possible range of services to meet their needs
• Provide education/awareness presentations to the community to promote positive wellness outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as required
• Promote the range of Nunkuwarrin Yunti services through networking, education and presentations to ensure the continued visibility of the service and ongoing referrals from other agencies
• Participate in the delivery of Nunkuwarrin Yunti’s emergency relief program with other members of the TP team, as coordinated by the Senior Case Worker and/or Team Manager
• Additional periodic or ongoing activities that may arise during the tenure of the role to meet client needs or otherwise as requested of the Team Manager

About You

You bring:

• Minimum Certificate 4 level qualification or a minimum of two years of demonstrated vocational experience in a social health care setting
• Demonstrated understanding of the contemporary issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the impacts these issues have on Indigenous Australian societies and cultures and health
• Ability to work within relevant legislative frameworks
• Organisational skills, self-confidence and the ability to work with general supervision to assess priorities, organise workloads and meet deadlines
• Ability to revolve conflict or solve problems in discussion with clinical supervisor as required
• Demonstrated ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, organisational staff and other providers
• Ability to communicate effectively both written and verbally with a wide range of people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, government and other agencies, committees and other bodies
• Knowledge of and demonstrated commitment of workplace diversity, workplace participation, work health and safety