Residential Youth Worker

3 weeks ago

Toowoomba, Australia Well Life Services Full time

**WELL LIFE SERVICES**

**Youth Worker**

**About the role**

We are looking for several Residential Youth Workers. Your role will help support young people with high to complex needs and behaviours to have a stable, consistent and predictable ‘home-like' environment which is therapeutic and safe. You become the primary carer for young people during your shift. Your main role is to keep them safe, get to know them whilst teaching life skills to establish a stable consistent routine.

You will be part of a dynamic team, working with the Coordinator and Team Leaders to develop therapeutic trauma informed interventions that will assist the young person with complex issues.

**About Well Life Services**

Well Life Services aim is to empower our clients to discover their own potential. We provide a range of therapy and support services tailored to the individual to enhance their overall mental health and wellbeing. We encourage community inclusion, respect and valuing of people living with disability or mental illness.

The core values for Well Life Services include Transparency, Respect, Inclusion, Courage and Celebration. Having staff that live by these values is key to our organization to deliver the best services we can.

**Why work for Well Life Services**
- Casual employment with great flexibility.
- Part of a friendly and supportive team.
- Work for an ethical business that genuinely cares about its clients.
- Opportunities to gain experience across a range of support work streams.

**About the role**

A day in the role of a Residential Youth Worker will include:

- Planning, assisting, and engaging in suitable activities with the young person.
- Being a part of a wider team who work collaboratively to help with young person achieving their personal goals.
- Promoting good hygiene and good nutrition with young person.
- Completing daily case notes, admin tasks and incident reports.
- Must be flexible in availability for sleepovers, weekends, and awake shifts.

**About you**
The ideal person for this role:

- Must be empathetic, compassionate, have an open mindset, and patient with working with young people to create a positive and safe home-like environment.
- Passionate about being a part of a young person’s life in seeing them achieve their goals, enjoy working one on one with young people in relationship-based trauma informed manner.
- Wants to be a part of a dedicated team that also share the same focus-driven outcomes.
- Enjoy working with a diverse group of individuals and their families.
- Do meaningful work that improves the lives of young people.
- Providing interpersonal care to young people and assisting with their daily routines
- Assisting in domestic tasks, shopping, cleaning, meal prep.
- Medication administration.
- Empowering young people to make positive and informed life choices.

**Essential Selection Criteria**
- Strong interpersonal, oral, written and team building skills.
- Able to act with integrity in times of stress.
- Ability to work within flexible rostering.
- Strong time management skills.
- Self-motivation and the ability to work autonomously within the community.
- A strong understanding of professional and personal boundaries.
- An aptitude for learning new skills, competencies, and knowledge.
- A NDIS Worker Screening Clearance and satisfactory National Police Clearance.
- A current, valid QLD Australian C Class Driver’s License and comprehensive car insurance, and registration.
- A current, valid Working with Children Check.
- Current First Aid and CPR Certificates.

**Desirable Selection Criteria**
- Certificate IV or higher qualification in **Child, Youth & Family Intervention, Youth Services, Community Services or similar.**:

- TCI Trained
- Hope and Healing Trained
- Positive Behaviour Support
- Medication Management
- It is a requirement of this position to acquire and maintain a Working with Children
- Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Check.

“Well Life Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and we are committed to achieving a diverse workforce that embraces diversity in race, age, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation and disability".

**Job Type**: Casual

**Salary**: $30.61 - $40.26 per hour

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Afternoon shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Morning shift
- Night shift
- Public holidays
- Shift work

Supplemental pay types:

- Penalty rates

**Education**:

- Certificate I - IV (preferred)

**Experience**:

- disability: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- CPR Certification (preferred)
- First Aid Certification (preferred)
- NDIS Worker Screening Clearance (preferred)
- Working with Children Check (Blue Card) (preferred)
- QLD Australian C Class Driver’s License (preferred)
- Comprehensive car insurance (preferred)

Shift availability:

- Day Shift (preferred)
- Night Shift (preferred)
- Overnight Shift (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Expected Start Date: 10/07/2

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