Senior Youth Support Worker

Do you have previous management or leadership experience in either Youth Support, Employment Services or Retail and enjoy leading and supporting your Business Manager and co-workers? Join APM as aSenior Youth Support WorkerinRyde, NSW .

Your work will help enable better lives as you guide your team along side your Business Manager to provide support to young people to achieve ongoing education and/or employment.

You'll be empowering and motivating Youth Support Workers to drive the very best outcomes for their clients. Your teams' success is what drives you, so sharing your knowledge through mentoring and coaching will be important, supporting them to hit their KPIs. You'll also lead by example, engaging with your own clients to provide tailored employment services.

The role

You're empowering and motivating Youth Support Workers to drive the very best outcomes for their clients. Your team's success is what drives you, so sharing your knowledge through mentoring and coaching will be important, supporting them to hit their KPIs. You'll also lead by example, engaging with your own clients to provide tailored employment services.

What makes a great Senior Youth Support Worker?

You're driven to exceed personal and professional goals, and take pride in helping others do the same. Strong communication and negotiation skills are some of your assets, along with the ability to identify a person's strengths to create solutions that are 'outside the square'. You'll know that resilience is important in this line of work and you have it in spades along with your impressive ability when it comes to time management.

What we need from you:

• Previous management and leadership experience
• Ability to coach, motivate and provide guidance
• A creative problem solver who can tackle complex issues as they arise.
• Ability to establish strong relationships with Community organisations, Schools and RTO's
• Willing to complete a Criminal History Check
• Working with Children Check (Blue card)
• A current driver's licence and a comprehensively insured vehicle
• Ideally you will hold a Cert IV Youth Work, Cert IV Employment Services or Cert IV Community Services or higher or equivalent (if you don't hold formal qualifications, you must be happy to obtain).

Ready to make a difference in the lives of others, and your own? Join the APM team today.

Am I suited to being an Senior Youth Support Workerwith APM's Employment Services?

We hire people with who are driven, and solution focused with a can-do approach. People who are motivated to go above and beyond for their participants, have excellent communication skills and can demonstrate composure and adaptability through the day-to-day challenges of the role.

We find people with a background in sales, retail, call centre, hospitality, consulting, business development, and administration are well suited to this role. We provide full training, and we'll help you turn your transferable skills into a new career in Employment Services.

About APM Group

We're a diverse team of over 13,000 people across 11 countries with a shared purpose - to enable better lives. Our purpose is the common thread that lives in everything we do, and it starts with enabling better lives for our employees and their families too.

Our work enables the people we serve to realise their ambitions and aspirations through sustainable employment, independence, better health and wellbeing, and increased social participation.

When you join APM, there's an opportunity to grow your career in Human Services, across multiple global brands and geographies. You can expect a great work-life balance, extensive learning opportunities, networking programs and employee benefits. But most of all you can expect to make a lasting impact on the lives of others, who rely on our services.

At APM we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities and cultures including indigenous peoples, the LGBTQI+ community and people with a disability.