Youth And Family Support Worker

About the Role
The Families and Young People Services team have an exciting opportunity for a Youth and Family Support Worker to join Mercy Community. This will be a casual position based in Underwood and servicing the Brisbane Region. Most shifts will occur Monday to Friday although some shifts will be outside business hours and across weekends, so a degree of flexibility will be required. Hours will vary but on average it will be approximately 10 hours per week.
$40.26 - $48.25 per hour (award) plus superannuation plus generous salary packaging available
What You’ll be doing
You will be responsible for providing support and activities to enhance children and young people sense of wellbeing, self- esteem
Model behaviour consistent with goals which have been developed as a result of individual child intervention plans
Facilitate links with social supports and networks which reflect individual identified needs
Work collaboratively with your line manager to identify client needs and deliver appropriate services within available resources, continually assessing effectiveness and responding to changing needs and dynamics
Build and maintain trusting and meaningful working relationships with clients and relevant stakeholders
Support and provide opportunities for life and personal skill development for clients by role
modelling expected behaviours
Contribute to the development of a responsive and innovative therapeutic intervention team that is able to meet the needs of children and young people
About you
As the successful applicant, you will possess:
Relevant qualifications (certificate or higher) and demonstrated experience in working with children and/or families in relation to complex issues.
Demonstrated ability to work unsupervised with vulnerable children/young people, providing guidance, supervision and support within a set framework.
Demonstrated ability to be a positive role model with children/young people, including engaging with children and young people and building appropriate relationships.
A Queensland Provisional Green (P2) or Open Driver’s License.
A current positive notice in the Working with Children Check (Blue Card), the ability to obtain positive Police Check and any other legislatively required personal history screening as required
Evidence of current vaccination against whooping cough or willingness to obtain prior to commencement.
Why Mercy Community
Mercy Community is a Catholic not-for-profit, compassionately inspiring and supporting people to live hopeful, connected lives within inclusive communities. We support families and young people, people living with a disability, and older people, and live by our values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity and Empowerment. We have been providing services and support for over 150 years and our team operates across a network that encompasses urban, rural and remote communities.
Being part of the Mercy Community team, means you have access to some fantastic benefits, such as:
Increase your take home pay through the use of generous salary packaging - up to $18,550 per annum of your salary is available as a tax-free component
Pay for your Queensland Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Card when you need – saving you up to $144 if you need both cards!
Provide you and your immediate family free, professional and confidential counselling services including specialised First Nations counsellors
Depending on your role, you may also be eligible:
For annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements
To receive pay bonus’ of $500 for successful employee referrals
To cash out or purchase annual leave and to take advantage of extra leave entitlements
We also ensure all our employees have access to a wide variety of excellent learning and development tools to continue your professional and personal development. This includes making sure you have access to a range of other career pathways and opportunities across Mercy.
APPLY NOW! Please note we may contact applicants prior to closing date so not delay in applying.