Youth Worker

Apply now Job no: 505384
Employment type: Casual
Location: Mackay & Coalfields
Categories: Child, Youth & Family

- Competitive Award Rate + 12% Super + Salary Sacrifice up to increase your take home pay

- Are you looking for an inclusive and diverse organisation that offers career opportunities and understands the importance of work life balance?

- Would you like to pay less tax and increase your take home pay?

- You may need to utilise your own vehicle, with KMs reimbursed

About the Organisation

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role

Intensive Foster and Kinship Care (IFKC) is a family-based care program that supports children and young people aged 0 to 17 years, who have been assessed as having a complex or extreme level of support needs.

As a Youth Worker (IFKC) you will provide direct care and mentoring of children and/or young people with a wide range of responsibility for specialized program activities. You will assist in connecting the child or young person to family, access to purposeful and goal-oriented support. You will assist in identifying risks and emotional support needs and work in partnership with our Child and Family Practitioners to develop and implement individualized care plans to manage risk, pain-based behaviour, safety and health management needs. You will have access to training, supervision, 24/7 phone support, and access to planned and emergency respite.

This position is based in Mackay and is Casual.

Key Responsibilities

- Form and maintain professional, nurturing relationships with children and young people by building trust through visible interest and active engagement

- Act as an appropriate adult role model, seeking to engage young people in purposeful activities aimed at developing life skills and self-worth

- Support the involvement of family and where applicable, facilitate family visits/connection and the promotion of positive family relationships with children and young people, to suit individual needs

- Promote and encourage positive relationships with peers and other persons significant to the child/young person

- Assist the child/young person to participate as fully as possible in making decisions about the activities undertaken

- Experience working with young people, ideally in a residential setting is desirable, but successful applicants may have transferable experience from a background working in mental health, teaching/childcare, alcohol and other drugs or youth detention centres.

- The successful applicants will need to be confident in managing risk and assessment and respond well to young people.

- Valid Full Unrestricted Australian Drivers Licence (essential)

- You must have your own vehicle with third party insurance

- Valid First Aid Certificate and CPR Certification (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement)

- Complete Hope and Healing Framework Foundations prior to starting (we will enrol you in this if successful)

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).

- Multiple shifts available to promote work/life flexibility

- A fantastic, positive, and supportive team culture

- Growing organisation with great career opportunities

- Ongoing training and mentorship

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Joelene at recruitment@lwb.org.au with the subject heading ‘IFKC Mackay’.

Candidates with disabilities who require adjustments to the recruitment process or the application form in an alternate format can visit https://www.lwb.org.au/careers/ for information on our access and inclusion work and how to contact us directly.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications are continuously reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice. Current application closing date is midnight Sunday 16th November.

Advertised: 24 Oct 2025 E. Australia Standard Time
Applications close: 16 Nov 2025 23:55 E. Australia Standard Time

Expression of interest

No expression of interest currently available

As a Youth Worker in IFKC, you'll mentor children with complex needs, help build connections, and be part of a supportive, trauma-informed care team.

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