Youth and Family Support Worker

5 months ago

Toowoomba, Australia Mercy Community Service Full time

**The Role**
- The Families and Young People Services team have an exciting opportunity for a Youth and Family Support Worker to join Mercy Community. This will be a casual position based in Toowoomba offering hours between Monday to Friday from 2pm to 5pm.
- As part of a close team, you will be responsible for providing support and activities to enhance children and young people sense of wellbeing, self
- esteem and to model behaviour consistent with goals which have been developed as a result of individual child intervention plans.
- This position offers a competitive hourly rate of $40.26 to $48.25 (dependent on qualifications and experience).

**To be eligible for this position you will require (Key Selection Criteria)**:

- Relevant qualifications (certificate or higher) and demonstrated experience in working with children and/or families in relation to complex issues.
- Demonstrated ability to work unsupervised with vulnerable children/young people, providing guidance, supervision and support within a set framework.
- Demonstrated ability to be a positive role model with children/young people, including engaging with children and young people and building appropriate relationships.
- A Queensland Provisional Green (P2) or Open Driver’s License.
- A current positive notice in the Working with Children Check (Blue Card), the ability to obtain positive Police Check and any other legislatively required personal history screening as required
- Evidence of current vaccination against whooping cough or willingness to obtain prior to commencement.

**Why choose to work at Mercy?**
- Mercy Community appreciates the important work that each person contributes to the success of our programs and services. Being part of the Mercy team, means you have access to some fantastic benefits, such as we:

- Take advantage of free onsite parking in a beautiful working environment just a few minutes from the centre of Toowoomba.
- Pay for your Queensland Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Card when you need - saving you up to $144 if you need both cards
- Provide you and your immediate family free, professional and confidential counselling services. This includes specialised First Nations counsellors.
- Provide the opportunity to increase your take home pay through the use of salary sacrificing and other packaging benefits -up to $18,550 per annum is available to take advantage of
- Provide access to novated leases for a vehicle to help reduce your taxable income.
- Depending on your role, you may also be eligible:

- For annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements
- To receive pay bonus’ of $500 for successful employee referrals
- To cash out or purchase annual leave and to
- take advantage of extra leave entitlements
- We also ensure all our employees have access to a wide variety of excellent learning and development tools to continue your professional and personal development. This includes making sure you have access to plenty of other career pathways and opportunities in the broader Families and Young People programs, or in other programs and services across Mercy.

**About Us**
- Mercy Community is a Catholic not-for-profit, compassionately inspiring and supporting people to live hopeful, connected lives within inclusive communities. We support families and young people, people living with a disability, and older people, and live by our values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity and Empowerment. We have been providing services and support for over 150 years and our team operates across a network that encompasses urban, rural and remote communities. Please visit our website to find out more about our dedicated team and the work we do.

Mercy Community is delivering the Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan to boost our commitment to First Nations deliverables and actions.

**How to Apply**
- Mercy is committed to Safeguarding - taking actions to promote and ensure the welfare of children and adults at risk, protect them from abuse or neglect and supporting an awareness of whole community responsibility to help and protect all in need._

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