Residential Youth Worker

3 weeks ago

Toowoomba, Australia All Care Australia Pty Ltd Full time

**OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROGRESSION INTO A PERMANENT PART TIME ROLE**

All Care Australia are seeking to be a leading provider of care services. We are looking for Residential Youth Workers to support strong care teams in the provision of high quality trauma-informed residential services for young people.
- Do you have the energy and enthusiasm to embed strong practice frameworks into daily habits?
- Are you passionate about making an impact in a young person's trajectory?
- Are you looking to advance your career within the community services industry?

If your answer is yes to these questions, then this exciting role may be for you.

**About The Role**:
The Residential Youth Worker supports a team of like minded individuals under the supervision of a Care Coordinator, to provide stability, consistency and security for the children and young people in our care.

This role requires the capacity to work day shifts, night shifts, sleepovers, weekends and public holidays.

**About You**:

- Demonstrate high levels of resilience, patience and unconditional positive regard whilst confidently working with challenging behaviours.
- Act as an appropriate adult role model, seeking to engage children and young people in purposeful activities aimed at developing life skills and self-worth.
- Embed strong practice frameworks into daily habits.
- Provide detailed written reports with the online tools provided, following policy and legislative requirements whilst maintaining full confidentiality.
- Support the involvement of family and significant others and promote positive relationships.
- Engage with stakeholders within the community to support the development of children and young people.
- Provide the essential needs for the children and young people.
- Be able to support children and young people with complex needs and disabilities.
- Encourage independent living skills including but not limited to, cooking, meal planning, budgeting, shopping and cleaning.
- Work both autonomously and as part of a care team.

**Essential Criteria**
- Hold, or be working towards, a Certificate IV or higher in Youth and Community Services or related field.
- A current blue card (or willing to obtain).
- Open Driver's license.
- LCS clearance obtained within the last 2 years (or willing to obtain).
- Possess strong personal values including; integrity, dignity, compassion, diversity and excellence.
- Exceptional communication and conflict resolution skills.

**Preferred Criteria**
- Minimum 6-12 months experience working with children/ young people with complex behaviours, mental health, trauma backgrounds &/or disability.
- Experience working within Child Protection Residential Care Programs, with an understanding of the complexities that come with working in this environment.
- Experience attending multi disciplinary meetings and adhering to behavioural and safety plans as provided by external therapeutic specialists and stakeholders.

**About Us**:
All Care Australia provides therapeutic home environments for young people with histories of complex trauma, abuse, and neglect. We care deeply about the wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people and aim to make a positive difference in their lives.

All Care Australia uses a trauma-informed approach when supporting the young people in our care. Our goal is to provide the young people with a sense of family, support to heal, a chance to positively connect with others and the opportunity to rebuild their lives.

We deliver services aligned with our values and our practice framework.

**Our values**:

- Respect: we see people’s value and co-create opportunities for a bright future.
- Integrity: we show our uncompromising ethical principles and value.
- Safety: we work with people to carefully mitigate risk while living a full life.
- Excellence: we use continual improvement to strive every day for best practice.

As a commitment to our young people and our team's continual professional development, All Care Australia has partnered with Dr. Paul Gibney who has developed an in-depth training program for our team utilising relationship-based practice. At its core, this training has an emphasis on:

- The centrality of relationship;
- The reciprocity in adult/child relationships; and
- Social and emotional intimacy.

Our practice framework reinforces the importance of:

- Relationship-based care;
- Engaging young people in therapeutic processes;
- The critical emotional skills;
- Assessments understanding the repeating patterns and meaningful contradictions; and
- Therapeutic conversations that create possibilities.
- All Care Australia acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and pay our respects to their Elders, past, present, and emerging throughout Australia._

**Job Types**: Permanent, Casual

**Salary**: $40.00 - $45.00 per hour

Expected hours: 20 - 40 per week

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Supplemental pay types:

- Penalty rates

**Experience**:

- Youth

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