• SCHCADS Award hourly rates range from $41.52 – $44.68 + super + tax-free salary packaging
• Amazing NFP salary packaging tax-free benefits: increasing annual pay package to $15k
• Clear paths to career progression + ongoing learning and development opportunities

The St Vincent de Paul Society is a leading provider of community support services, whose values it is to shape a more just and compassionate society.

We believe our employees are key to our success and offer Learning and Development programs to enhance and grow your career across a range of teams and services. Our employees are recognised for their achievements and offered promotional opportunities on a meritocracy basis within a collegiate and values driven team environment and culture.

The Role

In this rewarding role, you will deliver a mixture of outreach and onsite case management, group work and general drug & alcohol support, with the key goal of empowering clients on their journey to recovery. You will be joining a diverse and dedicated multidisciplinary team, who offer a supportive and inclusive work environment where everyone’s contributions are valued and recognised.

Your responsibilities:

• Provide outreach and onsite case management for clients of Rendu House AOD Services
• Building relationships with clients through community outreach and delivering therapeutic interventions based on evidence-based practices.
• Conduct intake and comprehensive assessment (including risk assessment) of clients
• Assist Clients with developing holistic treatment plans across a range of domains and stages of treatment.
• Work collaboratively and liaise with other service providers towards achieving client’s goals.
• Contribute to the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of Rendu House service model
• Facilitate delivery of therapeutic & education groups at various locations in South Western Sydney and Rendu House
• Support partnerships and build connections with external stakeholders

You will need:

• Relevant tertiary qualification/s or working towards, e.g. Certificate IV or Diploma in Alcohol and Other Drugs or other Community Services field, or approved counselling / welfare / psychology equivalent or working towards the same.
• Demonstrated experience in case management including; managing a caseload, case planning, assisting clients with implementing case plans, including with persons who have complex support needs (e.g. co-occurring drug and alcohol issues along with mental health, homelessness or contact with criminal justice system).
• Willingness to work within the established Rendu House, the Society’s AOD Model of Care and the Society’s Client-centred Service Delivery Model.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct self in a professional, ethical and non-judgemental manner.
• Knowledge of, and an ability to access, a range of relevant community resources.
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and to work independently and unsupervised.
• Basic computer literacy skills including experience in computerised data collection.
• NSW driver licence (unencumbered).

If this sounds like you, don’t wait – apply now, we are interviewing applications as we receive them. Submit your application with a resume. For more about the role, see the Position Description.

This is our Recruitment process

If you have questions about this role, or require an easy-read Position Description, please email Christine Faddoul on [email protected], quoting: Outreach Case Worker /VIN3205

St Vincent de Paul Society (NSW) welcomes people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to engaging a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, candidates of any or no religious beliefs and applicants of all ages. If you are a candidate with disability please let us know if you require any support to participate in the application and recruitment process.

The Society is committed to being a Child Safe organisation, further information can be found in the Society’s commitment to Safeguarding Children & Young People. Prior to an offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete the pre-employment checks including a Police check & Working with Children check. A health / medical assessment may be required for some roles.

St Vincent de Paul (NSW) has a COVID- 19 vaccination policy that has identified this role as requiring a full COVID-19 vaccination. Medical exemptions with the NSW government contraindication form will be considered, subject to a satisfactory risk assessment.