Youth Worker
6 months ago
Key responsibilities
**The Youth Worker key responsibilities are**:
- Provide supervision and support to young people in accordance with relevant legislative provisions, strategic priorities, statutory delegations, departmental policies, procedures and contemporary best practice.
- Provide supervision and support to young people to assist with their compliance with court orders and reintegration into the community in accordance with the case plan.
- Negotiate with other Government and community agencies, on behalf of young people, so as to enhance their access to services in accordance with the case plan.
- Maintain records of program attendance and prepare reports to assist case planning and reviews, and attend these meetings as required.
Delegations
Youth Workers have a range of statutory delegations under the Youth Justice Act 1992.
What we are looking for
The Queensland Public Service Leadership competencies for Queensland (LCQ) applies to all role profiles within the department. This role profile is aligned to the Individual Contributor profile of the LCQ and outlines the relevant competencies from the Individual Contributor profile that are the basis of assessment of your suitability for the role.
Vision
- Stimulates ideas and innovation: Gathers insights and embraces new ideas and innovation to inform future practice.
- Makes insightful decisions: Makes considered, ethical and courageous decisions based on insight into the broader context.
Results
- Builds enduring relationships: Builds and sustains relationships to enable the collaborative delivery of customer-focused outcomes.
- Drives accountability and outcomes: Demonstrates accountability for the execution and quality of results through professionalism, persistence and transparency.
Accountability
- Fosters healthy and inclusive workplaces: Fosters an inclusive workplace where health, safety and wellbeing is promoted and prioritised.
- Pursues continuous growth: Pursues opportunities for growth through agile learning, and development of self-awareness.
Role specific/technical skills
- You understand the impacts of historical and contemporary policy and practices upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. You have a demonstrated ability to engage and communicate with humility and effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly develop proficiency in organisational specific programs and databases. You have capacity to acquire basic knowledge of the issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other cultures. Every staff member is expected to role model leadership behaviours. This role requires the leadership capabilities of an individual contributor as outlined in the Leadership competencies for Queensland booklet.
Role requirements
- Citizenship/visa: to be appointed to a position, you must be an Australian citizen, have permanent residency status or a visa permitting you to work in Australia.
- Successful applicants who are either a current or previous public sector employee will be required to disclose previous serious disciplinary action taken against them.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
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