Cultural Support Worker. NISS - (Male Only) Permanent Full Time - Parramatta

About the Organisation

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.   
 
We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Service

Our National Immigration Support Service (NISS) provides a broad range of support to people seeking asylum and Refugees who are living in the Australian community.

As an asylum seeker or refugee in Australia, the path to stability can be rocky and we acknowledge the relentless fight for freedoms that some of us take for granted. Life Without Barriers supports people to reach their goals, one step at a time to navigate what can be a complex and challenging system.

Within this stable and agile team, you can play a vital part in enhancing the lives of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia. If you, like us, value inclusivity and respect, this could be the best career move you ever make to truly make a difference. Life Without Barriers is the largest national provider of the Status Resolution Support Service (SRSS), contracted by the Department of Home Affairs.

About the role

*The Employer considers that being female is a genuine occupational qualification for this position under Section 27 (2), (c), (e) and (g) of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984.

The purpose of the Cultural Support worker- NISS is to provide responsive and tailored support services to clients to support them to meet identified goals and address their barriers and vulnerabilities to achieve independence.

This position is being offered as a Permanent full-time position based at our Parramatta office. (Male only) 

Responsibilities

• Proactively work with clients towards supporting meaningful engagement.
• Assist clients to progress towards their own personal development goals.
• Provide high quality service delivery which will enable clients to connect meaningfully to the community and achieve their goals.
• Plan with the individual to create program and personal goals.

 Skills & Experience

• Certificate III in Community Welfare, or similar, or willingness to complete this within first 2 years of employment
• Experience working with Refugees and/or Asylum Seekers or knowledge in this area of support
• Ability to develop a positive relationship with service users and to support their Individual Care Plan
• Commitment to the values of dignity, respect, inclusion, empowerment, confidentiality and strength-based practice
• Ability to maintain service user privacy and confidentiality
• Ability to use initiative and to work both individually in supporting service users and as part of a team
• Proactively work with clients towards supporting meaningful engagement
• Assist clients to progress towards their own personal development goals
• Ability client safety and wellbeing through the timely notification of incident reports and following the identified risk assessment protocols and safety plans
• each shift
• Provide clients with an opportunity to collaborate and inform practice
• Provide balanced and objective information to assist clients to understand the problem, alternatives and/or solutions
• Ability to manage clients with complex physical and mental health issues
• Ensure the handover notes and CIRTS database is up to date with all required information
• A current unrestricted Drivers Licence

  
Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).

Benefits

• An attractive remuneration package will be offered to the successful applicant
• Excellent tax benefit options, for further information please go to our salary packaging providers website Maxxia Salary Packaging

  
How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Sadna PatelThomas at sadna.patelthomas@lwb.org.au

Applications close at midnight Wednesday 10th April 2024

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA)