Financial Capability Worker

What makes a difference for us?

• Completed a Financial Literacy Skillset (or willing to obtain within the first 3 months of employment).
• The preferred Qualification is Certificate III in Community Services.
• Demonstrated competency in financial literacy and knowledge of interventions and approaches to empower individuals and families to make informed budgeting choices.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the creation and delivery of workshops and presentations in a variety of settings.
• Membership of eligibility for membership with Financial Counselling Queensland (FCQ).
• Current driver’s license.
• Working With Children Check (Blue Card).

What makes a difference for you?

• 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.
• Staff Discounts: Participation in our team member purchasing program.
• 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.
• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
• Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference.

About the role

At UnitingCare Queensland, 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. We are seeking a Financial Capability Worker to join our Financial Resilience and Wellbeing Service—a free, confidential service supporting individuals and families experiencing financial hardship, stress, anxiety and mental health challenges.

In this role, you will support those accessing the service to create positive and practical outcomes. The Financial Capability Worker works with clients and the community on a one-on-one basis as well as in group settings to ease the hardship of people in financial difficulty or crisis by helping people build longer-term capability to budget and manage their money better and make informed choices.

Responsibilities

• Deliver financial literacy education, by way of workshops, information sessions, and maintain a strong focus on supporting people to change behavioural patterns.
• Work with individuals to create strategies to develop a longer-term capability to budget and manage their money and make informed choices.
• Develop and deliver tailored group community education (financial literacy) activities with a focus on empowerment and building resilience by providing strategies and awareness of current needs and issues, which facilitate early intervention outcomes.
• Work in a mobile capacity in the community, co-locating with organisations to ensure accessibility to clients in need.
• Contribute to community education initiatives that raise awareness of financial well-being issues.

Requirements

• Completed a Financial Literacy Skillset (or willing to obtain within the first 3 months of employment).
• The preferred Qualification is Certificate III in Community Services.
• Demonstrated competency in financial literacy and knowledge of interventions and approaches to empower individuals and families to make informed budgeting choices.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the creation and delivery of workshops and presentations in a variety of settings.
• Membership of eligibility for membership with Financial Counselling Queensland (FCQ).
• Current driver’s license.
• Working With Children Check (Blue Card).

Qualifications

• Completed a Financial Literacy Skillset (or willing to obtain within the first 3 months of employment).
• The preferred Qualification is Certificate III in Community Services.
• Demonstrated competency in financial literacy and knowledge of interventions and approaches to empower individuals and families to make informed budgeting choices.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the creation and delivery of workshops and presentations in a variety of settings.
• Membership of eligibility for membership with Financial Counselling Queensland (FCQ).
• Current driver’s license.
• Working With Children Check (Blue Card).

Benefits

• 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.
• Staff Discounts: Participation in our team member purchasing program.
• 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.
• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
• Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference.

Pay

$44.58 p/hr + Super + NFP Salary Packaging (save tax and increase your take-home pay)

Schedule

Not specified