Current Vacancies

Cultura is the new organisation resulting from the merger of Geelong Ethnic Communities Council (trading as Diversitat) and Multicultural Aged Care Services Geelong (MACS).

Our Purpose: Provide innovative services to support, care for and celebrate culturally diverse individuals through their life journey

Our Vision: Empowering diverse individuals and communities to reach their full potential

Our Values: Inclusion Integrity Sustainability Kindness

MACS and Diversitat have been serving the Geelong community for more than 40 years with a focus on our multicultural communities. As the new entity, Cultura operates across various sites delivering a range of services including residential aged care, home care and aged support services, settlement, training and education, financial counselling and disability support. We also operate a range of social enterprises including The Pulse community radio and various community events including the popular Pako Festa.

Cultura also offers an extremely generous salary packaging benefit, giving staff the opportunity to salary package up to $18,550 per annum of their pre-tax yearly income.

The Role:

The Settlement, Engagement, Transition and Support (SETS) Case Worker may work across programs to develop wrap around services and support for individuals whilst using the Multicultural Policy Statement as a framework. This role works within program guidelines to empower individuals to feel safe and secure, healthy and well, full participation in society, connected to culture and community and have equal rights and opportunities. You will work under general direction with assistance usually available. This will be towards set outcomes with solutions to problems generally found in precedents, if not you may be required to exercise judgement.

This position will be contracted on a maximum term basis, working 15 hours per week from 29 April 204 until 31 May 2024, and 38 hours per week from 7 June 2024 until 29 July 2024.

About You:

• Undertake needs assessments with individuals;
• Undertake case plans with individuals, including supporting them to identify, and work towards, their own goals;
• Deliver short term case work, including support, information, advice and referrals;
• Provide longer term, tailored support to individuals;
• Introduce information sessions and activities in response to needs identified;
• Build and maintain good working relationships with key stakeholders and promote understanding and awareness of the needs of clients;
• Identify emerging needs of individuals/communities and assist in the development of innovative programs/projects as part of the continual improvement of services;
• Assist in the development of work plans, funding and reports;
• Work from a culturally-sensitive, strength-based framework to support the following client outcomes –

• Clients are aware of their specific settlement needs;
• Clients have their immediate needs addressed;
• Clients become aware of services that are available and understand how services operate;
• Clients demonstrate greater independence when navigating services;
• Clients are aware of and begin to feel comfortable attending services/ programs;
• Clients participate in their local communities;
• Clients are empowered on a sustainable settlement journey with language proficiency, access to housing, meaningful employment and/or education.