Address- Starting rate $45 per hour + 11% Super + Salary Sacrifice up to $15,900 a year!
- Are you looking for an inclusive and diverse organisation that offers career opportunities and understands the importance of work life balance?
- Are you studying? Seeking a career change?
- Would you like to pay less tax and increase your take home pay?
- Would you like to receive discounted Private Health Insurance?
About Life Without Barriers
Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in their young lives and help pave a brighter future.
Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.
We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.
Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. To view our statement, please copy and paste this web address into a browser here (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA)
About the role
Working in line with the CARE model you will strive to enhance the lives of young people in our Child Youth and Family programs incorporating a therapeutic, trauma informed approach. We are seeking experienced candidates to support young people who display complex and pain-based behaviours, to reduce their stress and teach them better coping skills, to allow them to achieve their goals by providing a structured environment with daily activities such as, morning routines, school and/or work transportation, medical appointments, meal preparation, community engagement, extra-curricular and home activities, life skills development, in-homes support, family and friend connections, and bedtime routines.
Our Child, Youth and Family program in Rockhampton supports children and young people within a Residential Care service (aged between 12-17) who present with high complex needs, including medical needs, mental health, disability, emotional and complex behavioural issues and dual order engagement. Our ideal candidate will work closely with other staff to support young people to heal from their trauma and achieve their potential whilst planning for permanency, in the best interest of each individual child.
Key Responsibilities
As an LWB Youth Worker you will:
- Form and maintain professional, nurturing relationships with children and young people by building trust through visible interest and active engagement.
- Act as an appropriate adult role model, seeking to engage young people in purposeful activities aimed at developing life skills and self-worth.
- Support the involvement of family and where applicable, facilitate family visits/connection and the promotion of positive family relationships with children and young people, to suit individual needs.
- Promote and encourage positive relationships with peers and other persons significant to the child/young person.
- Assist the child/young person to participate as full as possible in making decisions about the activities undertaken.
Skills & Experience
- You must have obtained or be willing to work towards your Certificate IV in Child, Youth and Family Intervention (or similar) If you are unsure if you meet these minimum qualification standards, for further information, please copy and paste this web address into a browser https://www.cyjma.qld.gov.au/resources/dcsyw/about-us/partners/licensing/minimum-qualification-standards-information-sheet.pdf
- Experience working with young people, ideally in a residential setting is desirable, but successful applicants may have transferable experience from a background working in mental health, teaching/childcare, alcohol and other drugs or youth detention centres.
- The successful applicants will need to be confident in managing risk and assessment and respond well to young people.
- Valid Full Unrestricted Australian Drivers Licence (essential).
- Valid First Aid Certificate and CPR Certification (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement).
- Complete Hope and Healing Framework Foundations prior to starting (we will enrol you in this if successful).
How to Apply
Include your resume, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact ***********@lwb.org.au with the subject heading “YW Rockhampton”. Please note that we do not accept applicants to this email address, they must be submitted online.
We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. If you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face-to-face interview.
Please note: To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or hold a valid medical exemption certificate. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.
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