About the Opportunity
MCM’s Housing First for young people (Housing First) program is an innovative five-year program focused on providing housing and support to eligible young people leaving care. It will be delivered across the South-East region of Victoria, in partnership with Quantum Support Services and Junction Support Services and will compliment existing supports to young people.
This program is the first of its kind in Victoria and Australia for young people leaving care, and we are very excited to lead this with our partners and work with young people to shape this program into the future.
Housing First is a program that will provide housing, personalised case work and tenancy support for young people leaving Residential care, other care types, or custodial settings.
This program will:
- Provide housing stability that enables young people to achieve their transition goals across housing and independent living, health and wellbeing, education, employment and community connections, strengthen social, community, cultural and where appropriate, family connections;
- Improve health outcomes for young people and increased educational attainment and employment participation rates; and
- Reduce the risk of homelessness and contact with the justice system.
The Team Leader is a key member of the Youth Housing First team, their role is to supervise and lead the South East MCM program team, in collaboration with consortium partners to provide intensive and holistic support to achieve housing stability and broader goals to support Young People as they transition from Residential Care. This exciting role will closely collaborate with partner agencies Quantum Support Services and Junction Support Services.
About you
We are looking for someone who can:
- Provide high quality leadership of the Youth Housing First Team, including regular supervision, coaching, support and direction.
- Promote and maintain a positive workplace culture guided by MCM’s Healing Oriented Framework and MCM Values, and Advantaged Thinking.
- Effectively support team members to provide high quality support to young people leaving care, through application of the Housing First principles and Housing First guidelines.
- Support the Youth Housing First Team to engage with program participants and advocate on their behalf with other agencies to ensure access and delivery of services.
- Support the team to adopt a sustaining tenancies practice approach to assist young people to establish a new tenancy, settle well into new housing, intervene/prevent ongoing tenancy issues, manage a tenancy long term, and as required, end a tenancy on the best positive note.
Benefits of working with MCM include:
- Diverse and inclusive organisation
- Attractive Salary Packaging benefits
- Supportive learning and development environment
- Culture of continuous improvement
Essential:
- Bachelor level qualifications in youth work, social work, psychology, human services, or other related fields.
- Experience of staff leadership, supervision and coaching in a complex service delivery environment providing individual planned support.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and delivering healing-informed programs and services for young people at risk or experiencing disengagement.
- Knowledge and experience in Advantaged Thinking, Housing First, Sustaining Tenancies principles and practices.
- An extensive understanding of the youth service system with knowledge of patterns, trends and systemic issues.
- Strong ability to build and maintain positive relationships, including problem solving and communicating with people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.
- Demonstrated ability to develop your own capabilities and improve performance, with guidance from supervisors.
- Strong written communication skills.
- Ability to perform regular travel between North (North Fitzroy) and other MCM work sites and in the community in the SE corridor is required. Travel within metropolitan Melbourne to support clients and staff is also requested (fleet vehicles are available for staff use).
- Knowledge of the legislative requirements when working with at risk young people, including Child Safety Standards.
- Provide First Aid certificate (formerly First Aid Level 2) or willingness to obtain.
- Computer literacy, including proficiency in Microsoft products (Office, Teams) and client databases.
Screening Criteria:
- National Police check
- Working with Children check and NDIS Worker Screening check or ability to obtain
- Valid Victorian Drivers license
- Right to Work in Australia
Applications for this role will close on 13th of January 2025 or Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early. Please include your current resume and cover letter.
Please review the position description to understand more about the role and responsibilities. If you have any needs throughout the recruitment process that have not already been catered for, we encourage you to contact recruitment@mcm.org.au to let us know how we can better support you to apply.
About MCM
MCM is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to safety. MCM embraces differences because we know that diversity and inclusion help us to attract, recruit, engage and retain talented people.
We are a leading not-for profit-for-purpose organisation that offer a broad range of services in Early Years, Disability, Homelessness, Palliative Care and Education.
Our commitment to Safety
MCM is committed to the safety of its clients and employees, taking a zero-tolerance approach to violence within the workplace and abuse, including child abuse and abuse of people with disability. All employees are required to comply with the Child Safe Standards.
Our commitment to Diversity, Inclusion & Equity of Access
At MCM we embrace our differences because we know that diversity helps us to innovate and make the biggest impact possible. Our DEI Strategy supports and drives an inclusive workplace culture. We embrace the learning opportunities that come with authentic commitment to equity of access for all. We particularly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates to apply.