• Support unpaid carers to strengthen their wellbeing & navigate challenges.
• Part-time 0.6 FTE
• SCHADS Level 4 + super + salary packaging benefits + hybrid WFH.

Your new role

As a Carer Wellbeing & Support Planner for Carer Gateway, you’ll work alongside unpaid carers to understand their circumstances, priorities and the impact of their caring role. Using the Carers Star™ tool, you’ll complete assessments and develop practical, goal-directed support plans.

Your work will include:

• Providing carers with information, guidance and individual support.
• Arranging brokered services within approved funding limits.
• Engaging with carers through coaching, peer support and community events.
• Helping carers plan for future needs and periods of difficulty through referrals to other relevant supports.

About the program

Unpaid carers play an essential role in supporting family members or friends who are ageing, living with disability, experiencing mental health challenges or managing other health and wellbeing needs. While caring can be rewarding, it can also affect a person’s health, relationships, work and ability to plan for their own future.

Our Carer Wellbeing team works with carers through the Carer Gateway program to understand their individual circumstances and connect them with timely, practical and person-centred support.

Benefits of working at Uniting

At Uniting, you’ll enjoy:

• Working in a large values-led organisation with real community impact.
• Up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits that can be used for living expenses such as groceries, bills, clothing and streaming services.
• Save on dining out and drinks with a meal entertainment benefit of $2,650 annually.
• Up to 10 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers (4 for secondary).
• An extra 17.5% on top of your fortnightly pay when you take paid annual leave.

Your skills and experience

You’ll bring a strengths-based and compassionate approach, with the assessment skills and service knowledge to help carers identify their goals and access the right support.

You will also bring:

• A tertiary qualification in disability, social work, health, psychology, community development, community services or a related discipline.
• An understanding of the experiences and challenges associated with an unpaid caring role.
• Strong engagement, needs-assessment and care-planning skills.
• Knowledge of community services, supports and referral pathways relevant to carers and the people they support.

View the position description here.

How to apply

Click APPLY to submit your interest, and we’ll get in touch shortly. If this role sounds like a good fit for you, apply soon. We'll be reviewing applications as they come in and may close the advert early.

For any questions about this opportunity, please reach out to on Stephanie Mesley on stephanie.mesley@vt.uniting.org. 

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse range of services across Victoria and Tasmania.

Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org

We are proud to work alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities, and we strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants to apply. We are committed to creating a culturally safe, welcoming and supportive workplace.

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and relevant Working with Children Check in your State prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

Through the recruitment process, we will ask you for personal information. Disclosure is optional, however, it can help us support you better. We invite you to tell us if you identify as Aboriginal, a person with disability, from a diverse background or LGBTQIA+. You will be given an opportunity in the application form to request additional support. We welcome the opportunity to discuss how we can support you.