Housing Keyworker
Hub and Housing Keyworker - Fixed Term Contract August 2024 - February 2025
About the role
Hub and Housing Keyworkers provide services to individuals and families in a variety of settings, the majority of which will be in either emergency housing placements and/or permanent housing settings. You will also be responsible for supporting clients to build on natural support systems and community connection that will remain in place once they graduate from Street to Home. You will work with a client centered and holistic approach to connect people with services that address their mental, physical, family and spiritual wellbeing.
Duties
- Support clients to access and retain housing, sustain their tenancies, and address barriers that impact on tenancy sustainment.
- Develop consistent engagement with clients in a planned and coordinated way.
- Provide reviews guided by the Street to Home assessment framework to understand client needs.
- Deliver outreach and case-management services to people experiencing homelessness and/or housing instability.
- Develop collaborative, goal orientated, time referenced action plans that encourage confidence, accountability, and independence.
Skills & Experience
- A relevant tertiary qualification in Social work and / or previous experience working with clients who have complex needs including trauma, mental health, addiction, poverty and homelessness.
- Ability to engage successfully with a range of clients, to assist with completing assessments.
- Willingness to advocate for improved social conditions and a fair sharing or community resources.
- Commitment to embodying the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in organisational practice.
- A full clean New Zealand Drivers Licence.
Benefits
- 5 x ‘Mission leave’ days, additional to annual and sick leave.
- Access to EAP & external supervision.
- Access to monthly romiromi (holistic energy and bodywork), kapahaka, and weekly waiata.
- Ongoing training and development.
- 15% discount at Auckland City Mission Op Shops.
- Access to low cost, farm fresh produce on a weekly basis.
- Close to public transport.
- Discounted parking at SkyCity.
- Career progression opportunities.
About the organisation:
Auckland City Mission - Te Tāpui Atawhai supports Aucklanders in greatest need. Our services have evolved as the city’s social needs have done and we respond to these needs with care and compassion while advocating for a reality where there are: enough suitable homes, enough money for nutritious food and easily accessible health care for all. Since our doors opened more than 100 years ago, this has been our ‘why’. Today we operate across 10 sites in Tāmaki Makaurau. We offer support for however long and in whatever way needed – for some people that’s simply accessing one of our many services, for others that’s a complex journey with our full support.
Over the past 12 months the Mission has provided 200 people with permanent homes, conducted over 20,000 consultations at the Calder Health Centre in HomeGround, cared for 474 people in our residential social detox facility in HomeGround, distributed over 50,000 food parcels to families and individuals, and served over 75,000 warm meals in our community dining room, Haeata. Last year we were proud to win the Nga Āhuatanga o Te Tiriti Tohu (Award), and the Supreme Award at the 2023 Diversity Awards. These awards recognise our mahi to create a workplace which empowers Māori, and where Māori solutions can be developed and offered to the people who we support.
If you are interested in this role please apply with your resume and a cover letter outlining your interest in the role and Auckland City Mission.
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