Night Shift Worker | Supported Accommodation | Labrador

Employment Term: Permanent part-time (26.6 hours per week)

Location: Labrador

Remuneration: $88k + Super + $15,900 NFP Salary Packaging (save tax and increase your take home pay)

Make a meaningful difference with UnitingCare Queensland

At UnitingCare we are leaders in crisis response, the protection of vulnerable people and children, financial resilience and family wellbeing. Our FaDS (Family and Disability Services) team work passionately across Queensland to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.

As a Night Shift Worker - Supported Accommodation, you’ll be encouraged to grow, develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about. Let’s make a meaningful difference, together!

Your part in our UnitingCare team

We are seeking a highly motivated and responsible individual for the position of Night Shift Worker within our Labrador Homelessness Service. This service provides essential support to clients who have experienced homelessness and are currently residing in onsite supported accommodation. The cohort consists of 12 men who are working toward securing sustainable, long-term housing solutions.

As a Night Worker, you will be responsible for the after-hours care and supervision of these clients, ensuring their safety, wellbeing, and addressing any emergency or incident that may arise during sleep-over shifts. You will work in close collaboration with the Case Worker, Life Skills Officers, Local Service Manager and other team members to maintain a secure and supportive environment for the residents.

To be successful in this role, you will provide direct care, support and supervision of clients after hours/at night, ensuring their safety and wellbeing and respond to incidents and emergency situations, including those that occur during sleep-over shift.

Key Responsibilities

Provide overnight care and supervision for 12 male clients in supported accommodation.

Respond promptly and appropriately to incidents and emergency situations, ensuring the safety of clients and staff.

Assist clients with addressing housing barriers and support their connection with relevant services and resources.

Maintain detailed and accurate records of overnight shifts, including incidents, client interactions, and other relevant observations.

Ensure the site remains secure and that clients adhere to house rules during overnight hours.

Work collaboratively with the team to develop and implement support plans for residents.

What makes a difference for us?

Experience working within the community services sector, in particular in the field of homelessness or another field which provides transferable experience and skills.

Working with Children Check (under the screening provisions of the Commission for Children and Young People Act 2000). Employment is conditional upon presentation of a current Suitability Card (Blue Card) or a willingness to apply for the same.

An open Australian driver's license.

Able to work some weekends.

If you have the flexibility in your life to work nights and days, weekends when needed, and are confident that you have the skills and personality to be our Night Shift Worker, we look forward to receiving your application.

What makes a difference for you?

Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance

NFP Salary Packaging: Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via the following link: Salary Packaging Explained

A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs

12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme

Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events

Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference

A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others

We’d love you to be part of our UnitingCare family

Joining our FaDS, team, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years.

Child safe, Child friendly

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:

provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children

implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services

appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur

Diversity & Inclusion

Our approach is simple – everybody is welcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.

Safe workplace

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.