Key Development Coach
Located Burnie, Devonport, North-West
Full-Time Contract Until June 2029
Make a real difference in the lives of people experiencing homelessness and housing instability.
We are seeking an experienced and passionate Key Development Coach to join our Housing Connect team. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside individuals and families experiencing homelessness or housing vulnerability, supporting them to find and sustain housing while building the capabilities, confidence and connections needed for long-term success.
As a Key Development Coach, you will be a key part of a person-centred service response that is grounded in Advantaged Thinking, focusing on people's strengths, aspirations, talents and potential rather than their challenges alone.
About the Role
The Key Development Coach provides intensive, flexible and tailored support to people requiring a high-level intervention response through Housing Connect.
Working closely with Housing Connect Front Doors, shelters, specialist services and community stakeholders, you will build trusted relationships with people and provide coaching, advocacy, practical assistance and coordinated support to help them achieve positive housing and life outcomes.
The role involves both office-based and outreach work, meeting people where they are and maintaining continuity of support throughout their journey.
About You
You are an experienced practitioner who is able to engage effectively with people experiencing significant adversity and housing instability. You bring a strengths-based approach, excellent relationship-building skills and a commitment to helping people achieve sustainable change.
You will possess:
Essential Qualifications and Experience
Why Join Us?
How to Apply
To apply, please submit:
A current resume; and a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role and specifically addressing the Selection Criteria listed below.
Selection Criteria
Applicants must address their knowledge, skills and experience in relation to the following:
1.High-level expertise in proactive engagement (including with those that are hard to engage) to build an open, trusting and respectful relationship
2.Expertise in assisting people in crisis to stabilise through direct interventions and mobilising needed supports and services
3.Expertise in working with people to plan and set and work towards goals to create the conditions which will facilitate long term change
4.Demonstrated experience providing intensive, flexible support led by people’s goals, needs and circumstances
5.Up-to-date knowledge base of housing information, community resources, service providers and referral points
6.Knowledge of multidisciplinary issues relating to homelessness and the concepts of capabilities, agency, choice and control and their application to practice
7.Understanding of relevant theoretical and conceptual frameworks and a commitment to the values and ideals of capabilities and Advantaged Thinking practice approaches
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.
