Therapeutic Programs Officer

About us

Trek Learning Centre is a not-for-profit youth and family based organisation working to ensure all children & young people experience health, wellbeing, equity and access in their lives. Our mission is to provide Therapeutic Programs and interventions within trauma recovery frameworks for children and young people who have significant developmental trauma impacts and who expereince personal and structural barriers due to trauma & disadvantage. We lead the way in supporting young people and their families into healthy adulthood with significance, purpose, strength, connection and belonging. We develop sustainable and equitable pathways to education, employment, health and wellbeing for each young person through individual case management, building strength and personal capacity. We provide therapeutic trauma responsive training to agencies, improving how trauma impacts are understood and addressed.

Qualifications & experience

• Youth worker
• Teacher
• Support Worker
• Social Worker
• Mental Health Clinician
• Experience working with children, teens and families
• Experience in horticulture, building,

Tasks & responsibilities

• Delivery of therapeutic, trauma recovery-based programs operating in a therapeutic farm environment
• Can operate in an outdoor environment engaging therapeutically with small groups of 4-8 children or young people
• Can participate within a team to ensure all aspects of programming are set up and packed down.
• Has strengths, training or interest in food growing and the associated aspects involved in doing so successfully
• Can case manage multiple children or young people, attending care team meetings, write reports & develop next step pathways
• Enjoys working with and being surrounded by animals in the workplace, can contribute to the care of animals including working with children and young people to clean spaces, feed and water all animals daily
• Can apply recovery approaches and work within a range of therapeutic frameworks
• Can respond to the needs of children and young people in the moment with safety and calm within trauma recovery frameworks

Benefits

• A unique working environment encompassing outdoor, creative, bushcrafting and artistic pursuits, animal therapy, play, food growing, cooking, building/construction of small projects, hiking, exploring and social engagement for trauma recovery, connection, joy, curiosity, mental health and wellbeing
• Daily reflective practice as a team supporting best practice, strengthening the purpose of our work and professional development
• Salary sacrifice
• Daily lunch- harvested, cooked and shared as part of program delivery with participants
• An incredible team of committed, warm and inclusive professionals working together to ensure better outcomes for vulnerable young people
• The opportunity to bring your own skills, knowledge, passions and interests into each term therapeutic program delivery
• Catch-up periods where children and young people are not on-site, where training, reflection and review can take place without the pressure of direct contact work.
• Flexible 1.0- 0.6 EFT