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About the Role
The position provides casework support within the NSW/ACT Support for Trafficked People Program (STPP), to individuals who have experienced exploitation. They will provide individualised support to clients to identify strengths and needs and assist in setting and attaining identified goals. The position may work across multiple programs and/or functions of the case work service delivery. They will work with other agencies and organisations in a collaborative approach to source appropriate support for clients.
Responsibilities
- Provide individualised support to clients to identify strengths and needs.
- Assist clients in setting and attaining identified goals.
- Work across multiple programs and/or functions of case work service delivery.
- Collaborate with other agencies and organisations to source appropriate support for clients.
Requirements
- Demonstrated sound technical knowledge and proven ability to provide high quality, specialist casework support and case management.
- Demonstrated understanding of how to holistically assess complex client needs, including conducting risk assessments, and developing effective case plans and safety planning.
- Demonstrated cultural competence and ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds who have experienced grief, loss, torture, and trauma and who experience ongoing safety risks.
- Sound understanding of the social political issues and needs impacting migrants in transition (including people seeking asylum and people impacted by human trafficking, slavery and slavery like practices).
- Demonstrated effectiveness in contributing to interagency collaboration and ability to lead collaboration, advocate and network with internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated expertise in applying trauma-informed, strengths-based and person-centred approaches that promote client choice, agency, safety and recovery.
- Experience working with people who have experienced exploitation, violence, abuse, coercion, human trafficking, forced marriage or other forms of vulnerability and trauma.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex service responses, navigate multiple service systems, and facilitate effective referrals and advocacy across health, legal, migration, housing and community sectors.
- Actively participates in reflective practice, supervision and demonstrates reflective casework principles.
- A Working with Children Check is a mandatory requirement of this role.
Skills
- Casework support
- Case management
- Holistic assessment
- Risk assessment
- Case planning
- Safety planning
- Cultural competence
- Interagency collaboration
- Advocacy
- Networking
- Trauma-informed approaches
- Strengths-based approaches
- Person-centred approaches
- Service coordination
- Referral facilitation
- Reflective practice
Location
- Sydney, NSW
Work Type
- Full time
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Relevant experience required
Education Level
- Relevant degree in Social Work/Social and Community
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary + superannuation + access to salary packaging
Benefits
- Hybrid working model (two days on-site, two days from home)
- Option to work from the office each day if preferred
- Salary packaging up to $15,900 for living expenses
- Salary packaging up to $2,650 for holiday accommodation and meals
- Novated car leases
- Salary packaging for superannuation
- Purchase additional annual leave
- Paid ‘Me’ day
- Wide range of other paid leave options
- Specialist health and wellbeing advice
- Access to ongoing learning, training, and development
About the Company
- Australian Red Cross is part of the world’s largest humanitarian organisation.
- Our aim is to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people in Australia and across our region.
- The Support for Trafficked People Program (STPP) assists people in Australia who have experienced modern slavery.
Equal Opportunity
- Red Cross strives to create a safe and inclusive culture with wellbeing at its centre.
- We embrace diversity and welcome Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people with diverse lived experiences, abilities, genders, ethnicities, ages, and sexual orientations.
- We are a child safe organisation with zero tolerance of any harm to children.
- Our vision is to be trusted as the leading humanitarian organisation making a genuine difference in the lives of people and communities.