Youth Worker

Application close COB 7th November 2025
- Fixed term until 30/06/2026
- Part-time hours 60.8 hours per fortnight
- Remuneration SCHCADS level 5 dependent on qualifications and experience + superannuation
- 5 Weeks Annual Leave
- Up to $15,900 for living expenses + up to $2,600 towards meals and entertainment can be tax-free through NFP Salary Packaging

**About us**

Youth Support + Advocacy Service (YSAS) is one of Australia’s largest and most comprehensive, youth specific community service organisation that enables young people experiencing serious disadvantage to access the resources and support they require to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.

YSAS is a Child Safe organisation. We actively promote the safety and wellbeing of young people, and are committed to protecting young people from harm or abuse who come into contact with and/or access our service.

At YSAS we are committed to people of a diversity of backgrounds and identities being included, represented, and having the opportunity to participate equally in the life of our organisation and the communities in which we provide our services. We strive to create the conditions where people feel safe, enfranchised and valued. We value lived-living experience wisdom, insight, and knowledge.

**About the position**

As a member of a small team based at Headspace Sale office, the Youth AOD Outreach Worker provides crisis intervention, assessment, case management services and ongoing support to minimise the harm of drug use to vulnerable young people residing in Wellington. The Youth AOD Outreach Worker operates with a high degree of autonomy to support a caseload of up to 12-15 young people - undertaking comprehensive Youth AOD assessment, case planning, provision of drug and alcohol education, internal and external referrals, collaborations and shared care with other professionals and engagement with families and significant others. The Youth AOD Outreach Service is funded by the Gippsland Primary Health Network and is delivered in partnership with Gippsland Lakes Complete Health.

**Key selection criteria**
- Experience in working with complex and vulnerable young people experiencing problematic substance use.
- Demonstrated understanding of the principals and practice of harm minimisation orientated treatment and prevention interventions, as well as knowledge of contemporary approaches to youth drug treatment.
- Knowledge and understanding of adolescent development and ability to practice a range of interventions including assessment, case work, care planning, advocacy, group work, crisis intervention and collaborative outreach based service delivery.
- Highly developed engagement and communication skills with young people from a range of backgrounds and age groups.
- Demonstrated capacity to work effectively both independently and within a multidisciplinary team setting.
- Well-developed written, organisational and communication skills

**What our young people request from our workers**:
****Young people across YSAS have spoken out and given feedback about the qualities that best describe a good YSAS worker:
“A good worker takes the time to understand your interests and doesn’t treat everyone the same.” “Young people believe that a good YSAS worker is empathetic and good at actively listening in a non-judgmental way, is relatable, down-to-earth and able to build trust and rapport in a consistent manner”. “It takes time to trust someone, but it’s worth it when you know they’ve got your back”. Young people have also raised that genuine human connection is an important quality, “being authentically human”, while having a holistic, flexible, and adaptable approach that considers the entire context of a young person’s life and their intersectionalities. “It’s about making sure workers don’t just tick boxes but genuinely want to see us thrive”

Regardless of where they are based or what position a worker has, everything we do at YSAS is about young people and their families.

**Why work with us?**
- YSAS has a true commitment to flexible working, ensuring that individual, team and client needs are met
- YSAS offers additional leave entitlements such as gender affirmation, ceremonial leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, fertility leave, blood donors leave, a generous Parental Leave Scheme and the ability to purchase additional leave.
- Access to learning and development opportunities
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

**Please note**:

- ****As part of our Employment screening process you will be required to undertake a National Criminal History check and have a current Working with Children Check.

**Further Enquiries**
For a confidential discussion about the position, please contact, Brett McCaughan, Community Manage, on 0408 933 099 regarding Youth Worker (Outreach), reference number 104_2025.

YSAS has a zero tolerance for child abuse and is committed to the provision of a child-safe organisation.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term