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Senior Housing Officer, Critical Response Team
Homelessness Rapid Response; Service Delivery; Housing & Homelessness Services; Ipswich
•Appropriately and sensitively respond to customers experiencing homelessness or who are ready to transition from supported accommodation including understanding their specific housing needs •Approve high and very high need social housing applications and transfers, and quality assuring application assessments•Develop effective professional relationships with stakeholders to improve customer outcomes and processes and manage formal internal and external complaints and facilitating resolutions•Supervise team activities and exercising delegation as required, including monitoring performance, workload management, addressing operational issues and reporting•Primarily work in the field, which includes meeting with customers who are rough sleeping. Conditions are changeable and can be volatile, requiring varying degrees of vigilance and management of risk.
Job details
Position status | Permanent |
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Position type | Full-time |
Occupational group | Community Care |
Classification | AO4 |
Workplace Location | Brisbane - West |
Job ad reference | QLD/639847/25 |
Closing date | 12-Jun-2025 |
Job duration | |
Contact person | Maree Uhlmann |
Contact details | Phone: 047 776 6907 Access the National Relay Service |
- 1x Permanent flexible full-time, Ix Temporary fixed term flexible full-time until 05/01/26 with possibility of extension, You will manage complex social housing and housing assistance services delivering direct services to homeless customers in person over the front counter, by telephone, correspondence, in the field and through outreach services in the community.
What you will be doing: - Appropriately and sensitively respond to customers experiencing homelessness or who are ready to transition from supported accommodation including understanding their specific housing needs
- Approve high and very high need social housing applications and transfers, and quality assuring application assessments.
- Develop effective professional relationships with stakeholders to improve customer outcomes and processes and manage formal internal and external complaints and facilitating resolutions.
- Supervise team activities and exercising delegation as required, including monitoring performance, workload management, addressing operational issues and reporting.
- Primarily work in the field, which includes meeting with customers who are rough sleeping. Conditions are changeable and can be volatile, requiring varying degrees of vigilance and management of risk. Regional roles may involve intra-state travel overnight.
- Lead and ensure you establish and maintain a workplace safety culture by ensuring that all policies and practices concerning Workplace Health and Safety are applied and a part of day-to-day operations.
The skills you will need include being able to:
It is recognised that everyone is a leader regardless of classification level. Refer to the Team Leader stream of the Leadership competencies for Queensland framework to understand the expectations for this role.
The skills you will need include being able to:
- Actively work to understand customers and stakeholders, encouraging a strong customer-focus and building understanding of customer perspectives within the team.
- Demonstrate a balanced approach to managing conflicting demands and comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
- Readily share your knowledge and experience, acting as a coach, mentor, role-model and sounding board for others.
- Demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication, modelling open communication by actively and attentively listening to others.
- Demonstrate strong skills, knowledge and expertise in service delivery.
- Model professional, ethical and culturally sensitive behaviour and consistently apply those standards to yourself and others.
Applications will remain current for 12 months.
Further information
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
Two positions are available one permanent and one temporary until 05/01/26 with possibility of extension,.
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