Senior Youth Worker - Children & Families
Job No:
S3937
Location:
Anglicare SQ - Children & Families - Logan, QLD
About the Position
Anglicare’s Children & Families have a long history of providing family and children support services, including family intervention, foster and kinship care, counselling, relationship support and much more. We provide Fostering, Residential and Semi-Independent services to children and young people with complex support needs, who are not able to live with their own family and are living in out-of-home-care.
We are looking for two Senior Youth Workers for part time work in the Logan region, supporting young people in residential care who are on Child Protection or Youth Justice orders to become actively engaged with school based or alternative education programs, training or employment opportunities. Each case will be individually tailored to suit the young person, their needs and life goals. These positions are fixed term until the end of October 2019 however there is potential for extension.
About You
Complimenting your exceptional communication skills and previous experience in child and family support will be:
- Strong leadership and guidance skills with the ability to share knowledge and information with a team
- Exceptional record keeping and reporting and capacity to support others with administration requirements
- Ability to engage youth quickly and effectively and support them in education and employment opportunities
- Offering support and supervision to ensure homework and other structured tasks are completed as required
- Sound understanding of the behaviours and development of young people, working from a trauma-informed framework
- Confidence and professional response to crisis situations - working within risk and compliance guidelines
- A team player who works in a collaborative manner, but is capable of operating autonomously on a daily basis
- Ability to provide a positive adult role model to young people, assisting them to develop confidence and self-worth
- Effective contribution to Care Plans by providing evidence-based insight, assessments and evaluations
You are required to hold:
- Degree or Diploma in Child, Youth & Family Intervention, Youth Services, Youth Justice, Community Services or similar
- A valid Blue Card (Working with Children) and current LCS
- Current First Aid Certificate with CPR
- A current Queensland Driver Licence
JOB NUMBER S3937
For further information please contact
Isabel Monaghan on 07 3340 9230
Applications close Wednesday 1st May 2019