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Social worker tangentyere aged and community support - alice springs

Alice Springs
Permanent
Tangentyere Council
Social Worker
Posted: 2 October
Offer description

Position Summary Tangentyere Council Aboriginal Corporation (TCAC) is an Aboriginal community-controlled organisation, providing services and running social enterprise activities for the benefit of Aboriginal people from the Alice Springs Town Camps, Urban Alice Springs, and Central Australia. Tangentyere Aged & Community Services (TACS) is part of the Social Services Division, which aims to improve the quality of life of Central Australian Aboriginal people and the wider community through providing innovative, responsive, and culturally safe services. TACS provide CHSP, HCP & NDIS home care & centre-based services to an extremely diverse and vulnerable cohort of people, where health is more than often secondary to other social determinants. With more than 7 languages spoken and over 100 clients, TACS continues to uphold quality service provision and maintains its strong ties with members of the Alice Springs and wider community. This position will also develop awareness campaigns and social support activities that will be co-designed with TACS clients and the leadership group at Tangentyere Council aiming to spread culturally safe messages to community members about elder abuse, neglect, and family violence. This position will also support those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, to access appropriate and sustainable housing as well as community care, residential aged care, and other support services, specifically targeted at avoiding homelessness or reducing the impact of homelessness while providing early intervention strategies for clients to ensure their emotional, psychological, and physical health and wellbeing is maintained. As part of your role, you will be working with children, people with a disability and people who are vulnerable. It is your obligation to always ensure their safety and report any concerns in line with our duty of care obligations. We have zero tolerance when it comes to abuse of any kind and will take disciplinary action, including and up to termination of employment, should we determine that abuse has taken place or there has been a failure to report any suspected or alleged abuse. Responsibilities Provide high quality outreach, risk assessment, and advocacy for referred clients and their families. Collaborate with clients, their carer/family, TACS staff and relevant stakeholders that contribute to the assessment and development of holistic and appropriate care plans. Address and reduce the risk and occurrence of abuse, exploitation or neglect. Provide culturally safe social support. Prepare, collect, and disseminate data and reports. Assist with achieving quality management objectives across the organisation. Assist with achieving safeguarding objectives across the organisation. Assist with achieving compliance objectives across the organisation. Other reasonable duties as required. Our organisation is committed to child safety. We have zero tolerance of child abuse. Our robust human resources, recruitment and vetting practices are strictly adhered to during the application and interviewing process. Applicants should be aware that we carry out working with children, police records and reference checks to ensure that we are recruiting the right people. To apply for a position at Tangentyere Council Aboriginal Corporation please click ' Apply Now ' to complete the application. A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date. A position description is attached.

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