Youth Worker - Wollongong

Be Recruitment is a leading agency in the recruitment sector, offering workforce solutions to the social and community sectors. 

Joining the Be Recruitment team allows you to choose shifts according to your availability. You'll have the opportunity to work with prominent and leading community service organisations and receive above-award wages paid weekly. 

As a Therapeutic Residential Youth Worker, you will work directly with young people living in residential care. The young people within the service may have complex social, emotional, and behaviour needs that require coordinated, tailored responses.

You will work within a residential program and ensure a homelike environment is maintained, and children and young people engage in activities promoting wellbeing and capacity building. 

Core responsibilities:

• Attend to the daily care needs of children and young people;
• Provide therapeutic support and guidance and ensure consistency of care at all times;
• Manage challenging and complex behaviours;
• Facilitate the operation of the residential household, including cleaning, cooking and other relevant tasks;
• Support and promote social, emotional, behavioural and developmental outcomes for children and young people
• Provide detailed daily shift reports, incident reports and other documentation

Essential Criteria

• A minimum of six months paid experience as a Therapeutic Youth Worker.
• Minimum Diploma of Community Services, Youth Work, Disability or similar. 
• Full NSW Drivers Licence 
• Have Australian working rights
• Current First Aid certificate
• Current CPR certificate 
• WWCC
• Willingness to undergo a police check 
• Vaccinated or exempt from vaccination against Covid-19

For more information, please contact our recruitment team on ************@berecruitment.com.au