Youth Transition Officer

4 weeks ago

Moreton Bay, Australia Education Full time

**About the Department of Education**:
The Department of Education (DoE) is committed to delivering responsive services focused on equity and excellence to Queenslanders and their communities. We promote equity and excellence by our commitment to respect, protect and promote human rights. Our objectives are: a strong start for all children, every student realising their potential, fair and safe workplaces and communities, capable people delivering our vision. Our vision is one of equity and excellence in a progressive, high performing education system that realises the potential of every student.

**Your Role**:
Based in Metropolitan Regional Office (Nundah) this role is to support re-engagement of young people in the youth justice system into an educational or training pathway to ensure they reaching their full potential and maximise their learning days. Building partnerships to refer and working collaboratively with external agencies, to support the student and deliver meaningful educational or training pathways, are a key component of this role.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Assist Court Liaison Officers in supporting young people in the youth justice system to engage, or reengage, with education and training.
- Provide support to young people and their families to ensure they are well informed of their available options relating to viable education and training pathways.
- Work with and support the needs of vulnerable young people from diverse and complex backgrounds, including First Nations young persons, young persons with disability and young persons in care.
- Support schools to interpret and enact departmental policies, practices and procedures relating to vulnerable young people to ensure they remain engaged in education.
- Collate confidential information, identifying needs and barriers to formulate the basis for activities required to support the young person's transition to the education or training pathway.
- Forge links with external government departments, community agencies and training organisations to ensure young people in the youth justice system receive the appropriate support.
- Work directly with schools, government agencies, industry, business and community groups to form productive partnerships and develop networks, operating both individually, and as a member of a work group to facilitate transition to education or training.
- Maintain a reporting framework, and report on the progress of young people in the youth justice system transitioning to education and training pathways

Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.

**Interested? To Apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
- Attach a 2-page written statement in response to the attached role description.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

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