The organisation
Based in Toowoomba with offices in Ipswich, Goondiwindi, Roma, Hervey Bay, and Gympie, Tasc Community Legal Centre provides a broad range of services including legal advice and advocacy to clients across the Greater Southern Queensland region. Key to our ongoing success are advocates who are knowledgeable, patient, and tenacious, and a culture that is engaging, supportive, and driven to provide the best possible experience and outcomes for clients in a values-based framework.
The position
An opportunity exists for an Advocate to join our team. In this role you will provide high-level advocacy to people with disabilities or mental health conditions. Your focus will be on increasing clients’ knowledge and understanding of their rights, obligations, and entitlements. At times, you will also work collaboratively with our solicitors and social workers where there is an identified need and may also take on work in other programs such as Redress as required. Tasc Advocates also deliver educational presentations to stakeholders in our community, participate in law reform projects, do regional outreach, and develop mentoring and supervision skills by working with students and volunteers.
Reporting to the Advocacy Director, your innovation, adaptability, and compassion will be supported by a team committed to making the best use of their skills and knowledge to deliver meaningful outcomes for clients and to raise awareness of the services we offer in our communities.
The person
The ability to consider your work through the lens of client impact is essential. You will need to be eligible for a Positive Notice for Working with Children, and Disability Services (Blue and Yellow cards), and have a Certificate IV, Diploma, or Degree in Disability, Human Services, Psychology, Social Work, Community Services, or a related field.
We are looking for an individual who takes a collaborative approach to problem solving and leads by example. A positive attitude, the ability to value and respect each person for their contributions to the team, professionalism, resilience and a genuine desire to achieve better outcomes for clients facing adversity are highly desirable. The ability to work in a trauma-informed practice framework is essential.
This role can be based in Toowoomba, Ipswich or Goondiwindi, with travel to other offices for training, development and outreach as required.
Salary range is L4 of the SCHADS Award, depending on experience.
We offer above Award conditions including additional paid leave over Christmas, and salary packaging to increase your take-home pay. We cover the cost of your professional membership and provide other wellbeing initiatives to support you at work.
Please apply by clicking the apply now button and following the prompts.
For further information contact hr@tascnational.org.au or call 07 4616 9700.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
