Community Services Worker

Job description

About Wayside Chapel Wayside Chapel has provided unconditional love, care and support to the most marginalised people on and around the streets of Sydney since 1964. Our mission is to create a community with no ‘us and them’, and address underlying issues of inequality, wellbeing, and loneliness. From our centres in Kings Cross and Bondi and through outreach teams, we offer a range of support services that place dignity, respect, and love at the heart of what we do. Every day, we walk alongside people facing homelessness, addiction, mental health challenges, and isolation. We provide care that is trauma-informed, respectful, and human. Key Responsibilities: Working with visitors: flow through the service emergency clothes and emergency meals and community engagement - Greet visitors, build rapport, conduct basic assessment of need and direct visitor - Assess visitors in line with Wayside criteria to ensure suitability to access services - Provide visitors with information on Wayside services and other local services - Manage the provision of practical assistance including allocation of showers, toiletries, - Provide crisis support and respond to immediate visitor issues such as lac...