Youth Worker

2 weeks ago


Ballarat, Australia Aruma Full time

Ballarat - New Service
- Be supported with Nationally recognised training with Aruma RTO
- $30 -$32 + NFP salary packaging increasing your take home pay

**About the role**

**Key Focus Areas**
- Provide direct care within a residential setting, ensuring a safe and nurturing home-like environment and promoting positive family relationships
- You will have resilience to work within a trauma-informed framework that makes a real difference with young people who have complex needs and challenging behaviours

**Benefits**
- Casual conversion to permanent
- Regular rostered hours for permanent staff
- Access to nationally recognised training through (Certificate IV) via Aruma RTO
- Mentoring by an experienced and passionate management team
- Benefits to increase your take home pay through salary packaging
- Employee Assistance Program - a health and wellbeing benefit

**What you’ll need**
- Certificate IV in Child, Youth and Family Intervention (Residential Care), or equivalent (click here to view more details),
- Willingness to study Top Up Units Residential Care (4 Modules) through our RTO
- Valid Victorian driver’s licence
- Valid Australian working rights
- Willingness to complete a Child Safety and Personal Screening Check
- Hold (or are willing to obtain) a Working With Children Check, NDIS Worker Screening Clearance, First Aid and CPR qualifications.
- A confirmation record of COVID-19 vaccination (dose 1, 2 & booster)

**Skills and experience**
- Availability to work any rostered shifts across a 24/7 roster model, including awake nights and sleepovers
- You are passionate about supporting young people who have experienced trauma and have a disability

**Culture**

People love to work at Aruma because they get the satisfaction of knowing they are Supporting people to live a great life, the life they want, the life they choose. Aruma is also BRAVE. That's what makes us a trailblazer, being part of our team means you need to meet our BRAVE behaviours (Bold, Respectful, Authentic, Value Teamwork, Excellent)

**Diversity & Inclusion**

Aruma is a Child Safe Organisation and an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer. To this end, we invite applicants to answer optional questions around Diversity and Inclusion as part of the recruitment process. The information provided will be treated in strictest confidence in accordance with Aruma’s Privacy Policy.

**How to apply**

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