Work At ACON

Work At ACON

 

 

ACON offers a colourful, nurturing and fun workplace.

Our staff and volunteers are the foundation for our ongoing effectiveness. We are committed to our employee’s professional development and engagement – ensuring we build our capabilities with people that have the right values, attitudes, skills and knowledge.

We are grounded in the belief that diversity is our strength, our differentiator, and at the core of who we are and what we do. As part of our commitment to inclusion, we encourage applications from people living with HIV, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and LGBTQ people from culturally, linguistically and ethnically diverse, migrant and refugee backgrounds, and LGBTQ people of colour.

For all job details, download the relevant job pack.

How To Apply

How To Apply

  1. Download and follow the instructions within the relevant job pack.
  2. Download and complete the ACON Employment Application Form
  3. Create a Cover Letter outlining how you meet the Selection Criteria as outlined in the job pack. Tell us how your skills and experience relate to the requirements of this role and how you’d use them to excel in this job. You should use statements with examples that clearly demonstrate your competency in a particular area.
  4. Update your Resume (CV) with the latest information, certifications and employment history. Tell us about your current and previous employment experience and your education. Be sure to include your preferred name, contact details and preferred pronouns.
  5. Email your complete application with these three documents in MS-Word or PDF format to: vacancy@acon.org.au

Application Checklist

Application Checklist

Before you submit your application, ensure you have the following:

  • Completed ACON Employment Application form – ensuring that all questions are answered
  • Cover Letter document outlining how you meet the Selection Criteria – as outlined in the Position Description.
  • Resume (CV) document with your the latest information, certifications, and employment history.

Current Vacancies

Care Coordinator/Counsellor – Sexual, Domestic & Family Violence Service (Hunter)

An opportunity to join a newly formed team of specialist workers responding to the needs of the LGBTQ+ community:

  • 1 x Newcastle Based Role: Part-Time (3 days / week) 

What’s the Sexual, Family and Domestic Violence (SDFV) Service?   

The SFDV service is a project operating from our Surry Hills, Newcastle and Lismore offices, providing specialist care coordination and counselling services to LGBTQ+ people experiencing sexual, family and/or domestic violence. 

Ok, so what’s the role? 

The Care Coordinator / Counsellor roles are essentially a combination of case management and brief counselling in response to clients with experience of SDFV. This service is only for LGBTQ+ folk and recognises the unique contexts in which SDFV occurs for people of diverse sexualities and genders, and its impacts. You will: 

  • Maintain a caseload of LGBTQ+ clients who have experienced sexual, domestic and/or family violence. Some clients may also be seeking support in relation to gender and/or sexuality, mental health, substance support, ageing, housing, and/or be newly diagnosed or living longer-term with HIV. 
  • Collaborate with clients, other services, supervisors and managers to assess, manage and mitigate risk in a victim / survivor focused and trauma-informed manner.

Who are we looking for?

  • Someone who has an understanding of ACON’s communities and the unique complexities of working with LGBTQ+ clients who have experienced SDFV. 
  • Someone with real enthusiasm for working with victim / survivors of SDFV and can bring energy, optimism along with an organised, collaborative working style to the role.

What else can we tell you? 

ACON provides a colourful, nurturing, and fun workplace. Our employees and volunteers are the foundation for our ongoing effectiveness and for our capacity to deliver innovative community engagement and health promotion programs and initiatives for our communities. 

To support the successful candidate in their new role at ACON we offer: 

  • Flexible working arrangements. 
  • Generous learning and development opportunities. 
  • Potential for tailored mentoring opportunities. 
  • Supportive working environment with a knowledgeable and friendly team. 

You will be part of the Community Health team which delivers Care Coordination, counselling, substance support counselling, peer mental health support, trans mental health and trans peer support across NSW. It’s an energetic team of people with a dedicated focus on improving the lives of LGBTQ+ people.

What’s the remuneration and working details?

Salary (P-Time): $53,232.60 (Gross per-annum for 3 days / week, PLUS Superannuation and Leave Loading) – commensurate with skills, qualifications, and experience. 

Location: ACON’s Islington (Newcastle) Office, with some flexible working from home arrangements possible. 

Hours: Part-Time (42 hours per fortnight) on a 2-year fixed term contract with the possibility of extension. 

We offer flexible working arrangements and a generous array of entitlements often above the National Employment Standards (NES) including: 

  • Salary Packaging up to $30,000 gross up value (i.e., currently up to $15,899 tax free). 
  • Generous pro-rata leave entitlements – including up to an extra week of paid leave for full time employees to be taken during our Christmas and New Year’s shutdown period. 
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – access to a comprehensive counselling service free to employees.

How can I find out more details and apply?

If this sounds like you, we invite you to apply to join our team and help us make a meaningful impact on the lives of those we serve. By joining us, you will be part of a mission to create a healthier and more inclusive community. 

We’d love someone who has experience already in this area but people at all levels of experience are absolutely welcome to apply. We highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from CALD backgrounds, people with disabilities, and people of all genders to apply. 

For more information on the roles, please contact Maddy Liiv at mliiv@acon.org.au or (02) 9206 2000, or specifically for the Sydney position: Lila Rhodes at lrhodes@acon.org.au, and for the Newcastle position: Louise Dunne at ldunne@acon.org.au. 

All applications must include: 

  1. Your completed ACON Employment Application Form – with all the details filled in where requested; 
  1. Your Cover Letter outlining how you meet the Selection Criteria (max. 4 pages); and 
  1. Your Resume (max. 4 pages).

DOWNLOAD: Job Pack – Care Coordinator/Counsellor – Sexual, Domestic & Family Violence Service

Applications close: Sunday 7 April 2024 

We are grounded in the belief that diversity is our strength, our differentiator, and at the core of who we are and what we do. As part of our commitment to inclusion, we encourage applications from people living with HIV, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and LGBTQ people from culturally, linguistically and ethnically diverse, migrant and refugee backgrounds, and LGBTQ people of colour. 

Client Service Officer (Home Based Care Services)

We are looking for someone to join our Home Based Care team and actively support people living with HIV to live their healthiest and happiest lives.

What’s Home Based Care you say? 

Home based care delivers two services: 

  • The Community Support Network (CSN), and 
  • The Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme (ACVVS). 

For 40 years the CSN program has supported the quality of life, independence, and choices of people living with HIV in New South Wales. CSN provides FREE practical assistance to help people living with HIV live as independently as possible in their own homes. This program is available to people who have a diagnosis of physical or cognitive impairment as a result of, or in the presence of, HIV infection resulting in impaired capacity for independent living. The Community Support Network is a team within the Client Services Unit within the Community Health Division. 

ACVVS is a federally funded national program that matches volunteers to elder people either living at home or in aged care residential facilities with a goal of creating long lasting friendships that will reduce the social isolation and loneliness of elderly people and improve their sense of wellbeing. Our ACVVS recipients are all elder LGBTQ+ folk. 

Home Based Care recruits and trains volunteers and matches them with people in either the CSN or ACVVS service. The focus of the program is to improve the wellbeing of those living with HIV and elders within the LGBTQ+ community while giving volunteers the opportunity to make a meaningful difference to, and enrich their own and other’s lives. 

Ok, so what’s the role? 

The Client Service Officer (Home Based Care Services) is essentially responsible for assessing new clients, matching volunteer carers and working with service providers so that a high standard of community care is delivered people living with HIV within their own home (CSN). The role might also see you assisting in the recruitment of volunteers and matching of clients withing the ACVVS program for elder LGBTQ+ community members. You will: 

  • Conduct client assessments and re-assessments to determine the eligibility and support required from home-based support services and other relevant services. 
  • Match available volunteer carers with eligible clients and maintain links and positive relationships with both clients, their carers and other involved services. 

Who are we looking for?

  • Someone organised, hardworking, and good at building relationships with a range of age groups and who is truly excited about the idea of working with people living with HIV, volunteers and elders in the LGBTQ+ community 
  • Someone who loves both working independently and as part of a close, collaborative team. 

What else can we tell you? 

ACON provides a colourful, nurturing, and fun workplace. Our employees and volunteers are the foundation for our ongoing effectiveness and for our capacity to deliver innovative community engagement and health promotion programs and initiatives for our communities. 

To support the successful candidate in their new role at ACON we offer: 

  • Flexible working arrangements. 
  • Generous learning and development opportunities. 
  • Potential for tailored mentoring opportunities. 
  • Supportive working environment with a knowledgeable and friendly team. 

What’s the remuneration and working details?

Salary: $41,651.40 to $46,654.80 (Gross 0.6FTE per-annum, PLUS Superannuation and Leave Loading) – commensurate with skills, qualifications, and experience. 

Location: ACON’s Surry Hills office with some flexible working away from the office options a possibility. 

Hours: Part-Time (42 hours per fortnight). 

We offer flexible working arrangements and a generous array of entitlements often above the National Employment Standards (NES) including: 

  • Salary Packaging up to $30,000 gross up value (i.e., currently up to $15,899 tax free). 
  • Generous pro-rata leave entitlements – including up to an extra week of paid leave for full time employees to be taken during our Christmas and New Year’s shutdown period. 
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – access to a comprehensive counselling service free to employees. 

How can I find out more details and apply?: 

If this sounds like you, we invite you to apply to join our team and help us make a meaningful impact on the lives of those we serve. By joining us, you will be part of a mission to create a healthier and more inclusive community. 

We’d love someone who has experience already in this area but people at all levels of experience are absolutely welcome to apply. We highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from CALD backgrounds, people with disabilities, and people of all genders to apply. 

For more information on the role, please contact Oscar Sanchez at osanchez@acon.org.au or (02) 9206 2000. 

If this sounds like the position and organisation you’ve been looking for, find out how to apply at www.acon.org.au/jobs. 

All applications must include: 

  1. Your completed ACON Employment Application Form – with all the details filled in where requested; 
  1. Your Cover Letter outlining how you meet the Selection Criteria (max. 3 pages); and 
  1. Your Resume. 

 

DOWNLOAD: Job Pack – Client Service Officer (Home Based Care Services) 

Applications close: Sunday 24 March 2024 

We are grounded in the belief that diversity is our strength, our differentiator, and at the core of who we are and what we do. As part of our commitment to inclusion, we encourage applications from people living with HIV, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and LGBTQ people from culturally, linguistically and ethnically diverse, migrant and refugee backgrounds, and LGBTQ people of colour. 

Mental Health Peer Worker – Hunter (LGBTQ+)

An opportunity to join a team of peer workers using their lived experience to support the mental health of LGBTQ+ community members of all genders across NSW.

  • 1 x Newcastle Based Role: Part-Time (2 days / week) 

What is ACON’s Mental Health Peer Work Service?   

The Mental Health Peer Work service at ACON is the combination of two specialty streams of mental health peer work: Suicide Prevention and Trans Mental Health and Wellbeing. It is a state-wide service that can be accessed by community via telehealth or face-to-face at one of the three ACON offices; Surry Hills, Newcastle, and Lismore. The position we are recruiting for will be Newcastle-based. 

Ok, so what’s the role? 

The Mental Health Peer Worker – Suicide Prevention role is essentially utilising your personal lived/living experience of suicidality and mental health recovery to support community members on their mental health recovery journeys. This service is only for LGBTQ+ people and recognises the unique contexts that influence suicidality and mental unwellness for people of diverse sexualities and genders, and its impacts.  

You will: 

  • Maintain a caseload of LGBTQ+ peers (clients) who are experiencing suicidal crises or following a recent suicide attempt. Some clients may also be seeking support in relation to gender and/or sexuality, mental health, substance support, ageing, housing, and/or be newly diagnosed or living longer-term with HIV. 
  • Collaborate with peers, colleagues, other services, supervisors and managers in a person-centred, trauma-informed manner to appropriately meet the needs and support the people you are working with.  

Who are we looking for?

  • Someone who has an understanding of ACON’s communities and the unique complexities of working with LGBTQ+ peers who are experiencing suicidal crises or following a recent suicide attempt. 
  • Someone confident in sharing and using their personal lived experience of suicide and mental health recovery in a safe and meaningful way to support and advocate for the peers they are working with.  

What else can we tell you? 

ACON provides a colourful, nurturing, and fun workplace. Our employees and volunteers are the foundation for our ongoing effectiveness and for our capacity to deliver innovative community engagement and health promotion programs and initiatives for our communities. 

To support the successful candidate in their new role at ACON we offer: 

  • Flexible working arrangements. 
  • Generous learning and development opportunities. 
  • Potential for tailored mentoring opportunities. 
  • Supportive working environment with a knowledgeable and friendly team. 

You will be part of the Community Health team which delivers Care Coordination, counselling, substance support counselling, peer mental health support, trans mental health and trans peer support across NSW. It’s an energetic team of people with a dedicated focus on improving the lives of LGBTQ+ people. 

What’s the remuneration and working details?

Newcastle Role (Part-Time): 

Salary (P-Time): $27,767 – $33,620 (Gross per-annum for 2 days / week, PLUS Superannuation and Leave Loading) – commensurate with skills, qualifications, and experience. 

Location: ACON’s Islington (Newcastle) Office, with some flexible working from home arrangements possible. 

Hours: Part-Time (28 hours per fortnight). 

We offer flexible working arrangements and a generous array of entitlements often above the National Employment Standards (NES) including: 

  • Salary Packaging up to $30,000 gross up value (i.e., currently up to $15,899 tax free) pro rata. 
  • Generous pro-rata leave entitlements – including up to an extra week of paid leave for full time employees to be taken during our Christmas and New Year’s shutdown period. 
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – access to a comprehensive counselling service free to employees. 

How can I find out more details and apply? 

If this sounds like you, we invite you to apply to join our team and help us make a meaningful impact on the lives of those we serve. By joining us, you will be part of a mission to create a healthier and more inclusive community. 

We’d love someone who has experience already in this area but people at all levels of experience are absolutely welcome to apply. We highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally, linguistically and ethnically diverse, migrant, and refugee backgrounds, and people of colour, people with disabilities, and people of all genders to apply. 

For more information on the roles, please contact Chloe Wilson, Co-ordinator Mental Health Peer Work at CWilson@acon.org.au or 02 4962 7700, or Kage Gold, Acting Regional Manager Hunter at KGold@acon.org.au  

If this sounds like the position and organisation you’ve been looking for, find out how to apply at www.acon.org.au/jobs. 

All applications must include: 

  1. Your completed ACON Employment Application Form – with all the details filled in where requested; 
  1. Your Cover Letter outlining how you meet the Selection Criteria (max. 4 pages); and 
  2. Your Resume (max. 4 pages). 

DOWNLOAD: Job Pack – Mental Health Peer Worker – Hunter (LGBTQ+)

Applications close: Sunday 7 April 2024 

We are grounded in the belief that diversity is our strength, our differentiator, and at the core of who we are and what we do. As part of our commitment to inclusion, we encourage applications from people living with HIV, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and LGBTQ people from culturally, linguistically and ethnically diverse, migrant and refugee backgrounds, and LGBTQ people of colour. 

Care Coordinator/Counsellor – Hunter

An opportunity to join a dynamic team of workers responding to the needs of the LGBTQ+ community.

  • 1 x Newcastle Based Role: Full-Time 

Ok, so what’s the role? 

The Care Coordinator / Counsellor role is essentially a combination of case management and brief counselling in response to clients accessing ACON. You will: 

  • Maintain a caseload of LGBTQ+ clients who are experiencing mental health difficulties, suicidal crises, sexual, domestic, and family violence, and people living and/or affected by HIV. 
  • Use a range of short-term, evidence-based therapeutic interventions, care planning, advocacy, and building referral pathways to better equip people to deal with life’s challenges. 

Who are we looking for? 

  • Someone who has an understanding of ACON’s communities and the unique complexities of working with LGBTQ+ clients. 
  • Someone who uses a collaborative approach to client work and will actively engage with ACON’s other client services teams such as trans mental health and suicide prevention peer work, as well as external organisations such as crisis and mental health services when appropriate.  
  • Someone with real enthusiasm for working in mental health and can bring energy, optimism along with an organised, collaborative working style to the role. 

What else can we tell you? 

ACON provides a colourful, nurturing, and fun workplace. Our employees and volunteers are the foundation for our ongoing effectiveness and for our capacity to deliver innovative community engagement and health promotion programs and initiatives for our communities. 

To support the successful candidate in their new role at ACON we offer: 

  • Flexible working arrangements. 
  • Generous learning and development opportunities. 
  • Potential for tailored mentoring opportunities. 
  • Supportive working environment with a knowledgeable and friendly team. 

You will be part of the Regional Services Division which delivers ACON’s services and support across NSW. It’s an energetic team of people with a dedicated focus on improving the lives of LGBTQ+ people in regional areas. 

What’s the remuneration and working details? 

Newcastle Role (Full-Time): 

Salary (F-Time): $88,721.00 – $103,857 (Gross per-annum, PLUS Superannuation and Leave Loading) – commensurate with skills, qualifications, and experience. 

Location: ACON’s Islington (Newcastle) Office, with some flexible working from home arrangements possible. 

Hours: Full-Time (70 hours per fortnight). 

We offer flexible working arrangements and a generous array of entitlements often above the National Employment Standards (NES) including: 

  • Salary Packaging up to $30,000 gross up value (i.e., currently up to $15,899 tax free). 
  • Generous pro-rata leave entitlements – including up to an extra week of paid leave for full time employees to be taken during our Christmas and New Year’s shutdown period. 
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – access to a comprehensive counselling service free to employees. 

How can I find out more details and apply? 

If this sounds like you, we invite you to apply to join our team and help us make a meaningful impact on the lives of those we serve. By joining us, you will be part of a mission to create a healthier and more inclusive community. 

We’d love someone who has experience already in this area but people at all levels of experience are absolutely welcome to apply. We highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally, linguistically and ethnically diverse, migrant, and refugee backgrounds, and people of colour, people with disabilities, and people of all genders to apply. 

For more information on the roles, please contact Louise Dunne at ldunne@acon.org.au or 02 4962 7700. 

If this sounds like the position and organisation you’ve been looking for, find out how to apply at www.acon.org.au/jobs. 

All applications must include: 

  1. Your completed ACON Employment Application Form – with all the details filled in where requested; 
  2. Your Cover Letter outlining how you meet the Selection Criteria (max. 4 pages); and 
  3. Your Resume (max. 4 pages). 

DOWNLOAD: Job Pack – Care Coordinator/Counsellor – Hunter

Applications close: Sunday 7 April 2024 

We are grounded in the belief that diversity is our strength, our differentiator, and at the core of who we are and what we do. As part of our commitment to inclusion, we encourage applications from people living with HIV, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and LGBTQ people from culturally, linguistically and ethnically diverse, migrant and refugee backgrounds, and LGBTQ people of colour. 

Find Out More

For more information about ACON recruitment, please contact ACON’s People and Culture Team: