Overview
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Community Support Worker | Community Mental Health | Cairns
Details
- Employment Term: Permanent Full time (76 hours per fortnight)
- Location: Cairns
- Remuneration: $44.58 p/hr + Super + NFP Salary Packaging (save tax and increase your take home pay)
What you’ll do
Make a meaningful difference with UnitingCare; provide support to the practitioners and families who access the Family Support and the Community Support Service. As a Community Support Worker, you’ll be encouraged to grow, develop and feel empowered to make everyday life easier for the people we care about.
Your key duties will involve but not limited to
- Act as the first point of contact for families referred to the Family Support Program (including Child and Adolescent Counselling)
- Process enquiries and referrals into the program from various sources; in consultation with the Local Service Manager and team members, undertake assessments to determine eligibility
- Assist families to access support services including practical and crisis support where necessary
- In consultation with the Local Service Manager and team members, develop and initiate activities delivered from a community hub that promote personal and social development and a sense of belonging and wellbeing
- Develop and initiate activities to improve the quality, efficiency, and networking of community services
What makes a difference for you
- Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
- NFP Salary Packaging: Save tax and increase your take-home pay (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum
- Recognition and rewards platform with employee discounts, wellbeing and assistance programs
- 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave after 6 months service, in addition to government scheme
- Diversity and inclusive leave including paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options
- Career development opportunities to challenge yourself and grow
- A positive, inclusive team built on respect and shared values
About UnitingCare
Joining our FaDS team, you’ll be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. We are a not-for-profit with more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands, committed to child safety, inclusion and safe workplaces.
Child safe, Child friendly UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children; implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect; address such issues promptly if they occur.
Diversity & Inclusion Our approach is that everybody is welcome here. We are committed to equal opportunities regardless of sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants.
Safe workplace We work to keep children, young people and the elderly safe from harm within our services and workplaces.
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