Youth Support Worker

6 months ago

Sydney, Australia LEAP Social Services Full time

**About the business**

Join LEAP SS in making a positive impact on the lives of children and young people We are dedicated to empowering independence, ambition and fostering positive relationships. As a LEAP Support worker, you'll play a crucial role in providing strengths-focussed support, which can include mentoring, transport, supervised contact visits, in home support and overnight crisis support.

**About the role**

At LEAP SS, we prioritise building meaningful relationships. When you join our team, we take the time to understand your interests and skills to match you with children and young people you'll genuinely enjoy supporting. We believe in creating connections that go beyond simply assigning a worker to a young person; instead, we aim to form genuine bonds that make a positive impact.

Working with LEAP SS offers you the opportunity to help young people achieve their goals, work towards independent living, and engage pro-socially within their community. As a support worker, you'll be involved in various support services;
- _**Mentoring**_**: providing positive, consistent, ‘gender specific’ role models for young people who do not have supportive relationships with adults within their own families, schools and peer networks.
- _**Supervised Contact Visits**_**:supervising visitation between children/young people and their relatives.
- _**Transport Services**:_transporting children/young people to complete daily activities, attend appointments, go to and from school/work and participate in community activities.
- _**In Home Support**:_Supporting young people/families in their homes to create unity and work towards a stable placement.
- _**Overnight Support**:_assisting children/young people and their families to develop and maintain routines in a home-setting.

**Benefits and perks**

Becoming a support worker is an extremely enriching and rewarding experience for individuals who are empathetic toward young people in need and want to give back to their community. In addition to a rewarding sense of emotional wellbeing, the following perks are involved while working with LEAP SS:

- Flexible working conditions to accommodate your schedule.
- An on-call management team for you to contact whenever you need support.
- Career opportunities for advancement.
- Comprehensive training and induction programs, as well as regular in-house training to build new skills.
- A safe work environment and diverse team demographic, made up of various cultures and languages.
- An opportunity to make a significant difference enriching peoples' lives, and building relationships.

**Skills and experience**
- **Applicants must possess**:_
- A current employee Working With Children Check (WWCC),
- A current National Police Check (NPC),
- A current drivers license, (Provisional license accepted) and access to a clean, road worthy vehicle for transporting children/young people.
- A relevant industry qualification (minimum Cert III), or currently studying. This can include but is not limited to: social/community services, early childhood education, psychology, criminology, teaching, nursing, and other welfare studies.
- A current First Aid Certificate
- 100 points identification
- Driver's history report

**Work Authorisation**:

- Australia (required)

**Job Type**: Casual

**Schedule**:

- Flexible hours
- Monday to Friday
- On call
- Public holidays
- Weekend availability
- Overnights

**Salary starting from**:$30.61 per hour

**There is a high demand for male support workers within the industry.**

**If you are bi-lingual, or have an Indigenous background or experience supporting Indigenous communities, we highly encourage you to apply. Please include this in your cover letter.**

**Job Type**: Casual

**Salary**: From $30.61 per hour

Schedule:

- Afternoon shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Monday to Friday
- Morning shift
- Night shift
- On call
- Public holidays
- Shift work
- Weekend availability

**Experience**:

- Youth work: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- First Aid Certification (preferred)
- Working with Children Check (preferred)
- Driver Licence (preferred)
- National Police Check (preferred)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (preferred)

Work Location: On the road

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