Key Worker

at  Melbourne City Mission

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

MCM (Melbourne City Mission) is a leading community services organisation that innovatively works alongside thousands of Victorians and their communities to overcome barriers experienced through Homelessness, Early Years, Disability, Palliative care, Early Childhood Intervention Services and Education.
Living Learning (LL) is Melbourne City Mission’s first outcomes funded program under a Social Impact Bond (SIB) structure. The Victorian Government’s Partnership Addressing Disadvantage (PAD) contract and the Implementation Agreement (IA) along with the associated operating manual outline the program and the funding model for Living Learning. Living Learning works with young people who are persistently not in employment education or training (NEET) and who have a mental health condition. Through the supports offered by Living Learning (mental health supports, Key Worker supports and specialist education supports) the aim of the program is to re-engage young people into HHA, to stabilise their mental health and work with them over three years to achieve various cost savings for government and education and health success for the young people.
The Key Worker position is required to actively engage with students, conduct needs and risk assessments and planning with the multidisciplinary team, and provide a case coodination service response. The role, as part of a multidisciplinary student support team, aims to keep Living Learning students engaged with their education at Hester Hornbrook. This includes providing referral support for students to deal with any barriers they are facing to engaging and achieving in their education and providing outreach support and transport to students when required.

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for someone who can:

• Work with the Living Learning team, Hester Hornbrook and service providers to provide effective strategies for young people who have complex needs.
• Provide high quality support to vulnerable young people in the Living Learning program.
• Work with young people within a multidisciplinary team to build the capacity of clients to improve their wellbeing and build self-resilience through linkages to education, training and employment.
• Maintain and develop effective partnerships with a wide breadth of services including specialist and mainstream services in youth, family, employment, training and disability.
• Provide in-home or community-based support to student to support their engagement and access to services – to reinforce changes made through work with other services.

Please refer the Job description for details