Multicultural Support Officer - TAFE Students Preferred null

SSI’s vision is to achieve a society that values the diversity of its people and actively provides support to ensure meaningful social and economic participation and to assist individuals and families to reach their potential.

Recruitment Pool

We are developing a recruitment pool for Multicultural Support Workforce for ongoing and temporary roles that may become available across Settlement Services International for filling over the next 3-6 months.

Please note a recruitment pool is a group of candidates who have undergone a rigorous assessment process and have satisfied the pre-established standards for a role or type of role.

In the role of a MSO you will support clients and community members to achieve self-agency and thrive. The role does this in a variety of ways from welcoming and orientating new arrivals to Australia, supporting migrants to build their independence in the community and when accessing services, providing language support to case workers, engaging with their ethnic and faith community to provide information & referral and providing cultural insights to build the capacity of the wider staff team and sector. There are some administration components to this role which require digital and written skills.

About the Team

The Shared Services team at SSI provides support to service delivery program areas across the organisation. Our MSO workforce is a great strength of SSI. It allows programs to deliver services in a clients first language and with a culturally responsive approach. The Shared Services team is diverse, flexible and responsive, allowing us to support the changing needs of our clients and programs.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting clients to attend appointments or events and taking this opportunity to help build their capacity so they can learn about the services offered and how to navigate them independently in the future  
• Language support for interactions between clients and internal/externals services and teaching clients how to use professional interpreting services when required and providing clients with basic words and phrases in English which they can use to help start them on their Settlement journey
• Transporting clients: Transporting clients by car or public transport to activities, supervisions, and other appointment they may have. Supporting clients to learn about the public transport system and how to use navigation tools
• Workshops and information sessions support services: Organizing and accompanying clients to workshops and information sessions, conducting orientation sessions workshops for clients, interpreting for workshops
• Accommodation support services: Assisting clients in settling into short term or long term accommodation. Support clients to inspect properties and learn general accommodation requirements in Australia
• Support to Children and Youth: assisting them to achieve their goals, supervising Child Protection Out of Home Care visits or youth work type support
• General Orientation activities: Providing newcomers with information about living in Australia (in accordance with client handbook), providing general guidance
• Engage with Ethnic/Faith communities to provide information about SSI services, arrange information sessions or activities for communities
• Administration: Writing clear, concise, accurate, and objective case notes. Using email and Microsoft Office applications to perform basic administration tasks
• Cultural consultancy: Using cultural background to assist programs co-design activities by identifying community needs

About You

You will need to be able to speak read and write in any other language whilst also being proficient in written and spoken English.

A Certificate IV or higher (or current enrolment) in Community Services related area and experience working in a CALD setting within and outside their own language/ community group would be an advantage.

While we will accept and encourage candidates that can speak any language, we do have preferred languages listed below.

Preferred Languages

• Arabic
• Tibetan
• Kurdish
• Dari
• Farsi
• Tamil 
• Various Pacific Island languages 

If you have the capability to achieve success in this role and are interested in creating an impact for communities who need your support, we would love to hear from you!

About our Benefits

• Salary packaging options to receive up to $15,900 of your salary tax-free meaning more take-home pay!
• Industry-leading flexible working arrangement supported to work from home and office, including 9-day fortnight;
• Access to in-house training and learning opportunities for professional development and growth.
• Access to our in-house well-being programs
•  Working alongside professional and dedicated team members all wanting to make a difference in our communities.

About our Recruitment Process

At SSI we have zero tolerance for child abuse and are committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is embedded in the everyday thinking and practice of all employees, contractors and volunteers. SSI expects all applicants who can be safely vaccinated for COVID-19, to be so. This is also a pre-condition to ongoing employment.

All successful candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment checks including reference checks, WWCC, a Criminal History Check and NDIS Screening check (if applicable) as a reasonable condition of employment.