Youth Support Outreach Worker

**Introduction**:
**About us**:
ATSICHS Brisbane is a not-for-profit community owned health and human services organisation delivering on the unique health and wellbeing needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in greater Brisbane and Logan. We pride ourselves on providing health and human services, our way - supporting our people and community in our commitment to create a flourishing future and lasting legacy for them and their families.

**Description**:
About the Role

The Outreach and Support Worker will identify the needs of young people by delivering targeted and goal-driven support that focuses on their genuine needs and aspirations. You will be directly assisting young people during outreach coordination to access a coordinated wrap-around suite of services to achieve behavioural changes and engagement with ATSICHS Youth Case Managers.

Duties

**You will enjoy**:

- Positively and warmly engaging, encouraging, and guiding young people to achieve their goals.
- Deliver comprehensive assessments with young people in determining their genuine needs and aspirations.
- Deliver targeted supports to a general caseload assessed as low and/or moderate and a smaller caseload of high needs young people with the intent of achieving the four (4) program objective.
- Coordinate the access and direct support to specialist services and care.
- Use quality and care systems, and prepare data, and reports.

**Skills and Experiences**:
Skills and Experience

Required
- Certificate IV qualification or higher in Social Work, Human Services, Social Science, Health, Allied Health, Youth Work, or Community Services.
- Minimum of two years of experience in working with vulnerable young people and the use of a client information system.
- Knowledge of the supports available to young people in the areas of mental health, education, employment, and housing.
- Ability to communicate sensitively and effectively to young people through the use of decisive listening, influencing, and persuasive skills.
- Current drivers’ licenses P1, P2, and/ or open.
- Willingness to do Afternoon shifts.
- Working with Children’s Card (Blue Card) and Disability Services (Yellow Card) or being eligible to apply.
- Your immunization history as listed on the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) clearly shows both doses of COVID-19 vaccination details.
- Your exemption as listed on the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) may be submitted.

Desirable
- Previous experience in social or health service.
- Knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and their cultures, and a general understanding of the issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience of the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services sector.
- While this is not an identified role, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.

Culture
- Friendly, dedicated and professional team
- Work with a multi-disciplinary organization
- Non-for-profit and community-controlled

**Benefits**:
Annual salary inclusive of the benefits of not-for-profit salary packaging equivalent to $54,276, plus super. (Salary packaging provides for up to $15,900 of your salary to be tax-free on top of the tax-free threshold and can be applied to living expenses such as mortgage repayments or rent, meals, entertainment, and accommodation)
- Career development
- Training opportunities
- Work-life balance
- Work phone provided

How to Apply

Applications can be submitted by following the links on the Recruitment page. Please note the advertising closing date is indicative only.