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LGBTQIA+ Homelessness & Housing Peer Navigator

  • 521918
  • Ballarat, VIC
  • Crisis & Homelessness
  • Maximum Term Part Time
  • Provide support to the LGBTIQA+ community experiencing homelessness and housing crisis
  • Part-time (38 hours per fortnight), Max term until 30/06/2025, based in Ballarat
  • Access salary packaging to increase take-home pay
Your new role

As the LGBTQIA+ Homelessness and Housing Peer Navigator, you will undertake preliminary case work and engage clients within the LGBTQIA+ Housing and Homelessness Pathways function that present with multiple and complex support needs.

In this role, you will empower clients to navigate the housing system, come up with creative and safe solution to their housing situation, and will provide practical supports where needed.  

Peer Navigators are LGBTIQA+ people who have lived experience of homelessness and who will bring a personal understanding of the complexities and challenges involved in finding and securing housing.

This is an LGBTQIA+ Identified Position, classified under 'special measures' of section 12 of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010. Only people who identify as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community are eligible to apply.

Benefits of working at Uniting

Our work isn’t easy, but it matters. Work with people who care as much as you.

In addition to your salary + super, you can access the following.

  • Access salary packaging to increase take-home pay.
  • Enjoy a 10% discount at Uniting Early Learning, or 60% for centre staff!
  • Up to 10 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers (4 for secondary).
  • Free counselling with our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
  • We value diversity and lived experiences. Access support via work groups.
Your skills and experience
  • A relevant vocational or tertiary qualification, or equivalent professional experience in a related field (required)
  • Further qualifications in another discipline or specialist area (for example Graduate Diploma) (preferred)
  • Full Victorian Driver’s Licence
  • Ability to support LGBTQIA+ people who are experiencing homelessness and presenting with multiple needs
  • Lived experience of navigating service systems with and for LGBTQIA+ clients.
  • Ability to effectively build, engage and maintain professional working relationships with people experiencing homelessness from the LGBTQIA+ community
  • Demonstrated commitment to social justice which drives persistence and an unconditional positive regard.

View the position description here.

How to apply

Click APPLY to submit your interest.

Applications should include a core selection criteria and cover letter.

If this role sounds like a good fit for you, please apply soon. We'll review applications as they come in and may close the ad early.

For any questions, reach out to Kate Dharumasena on 0439 178 636 (during business hours) for a chat.

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

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 LGBT+. 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.

 

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