Parents Next Facilitator

**Do you want to work with a leading purpose driven, community-based organisation?**

**SSI’s vision is to achieve a society that values the diversity of its people and actively provides support to ensure meaningful social and economic participation and to assist individuals and families to reach their potential.**

**About the Program**

SSI Employment and Enterprises provides recruitment services, pre-employment planning and training, and work experience opportunities to help people establish suitable career pathways.

Meaningful employment is an important component to a stable, secure and independent future. SSI works with long-term unemployed, newly arrived refugees, people seeking asylum, migrants, young people and people with disability to achieve this.

**About the Role**

The ParentsNext Facilitator is responsible for a caseload of participants who have been referred onto the ParentsNext contract to engage with participants to attain with career objectives for sustainable employment and/or training or educational opportunities. This will be achieved through job focused activities, individual and group training and support, and customised interventions.

The ParentsNext Facilitator will also be involved in approaching businesses for prospective employment opportunities for participants, promoting participants to employers, building relationships with employers, introducing participants to employers, assisting participants to prepare for interviews, job trials, or similarly related activities; as well as following up with employers and external stakeholders once participants are placed into employment or education and creating ongoing relationships.

You will thrive on a challenge and have the ability to motivate and engage with our participants. As a ParentsNext Facilitator, you will have a highly empowering style with the ability to build effective professional relationships with participants, community organisations and other stakeholders including Government departments.

**Essential Criteria**
- Certificate IV in Employment Services, Career Development, Disability Services, or other similar qualification, desirable or be willing to work towards.
- Case management and experience interacting with job seekers both in groups and also one-on-one
- Customer centric approach and the ability to work towards customer service standards, KPIs, and targets
- Good working knowledge of local, state and national labour markets
- Proven business development, sales or marketing ability including excellent communication skills, high level negotiation skills, and persuasive ability
- Strong ethics, accountability, and integrity
- Ability to show empathy

**About Us**

Settlement Services International (SSI Group, of which Access Community Services is a subsidiary) is a community-based organisation and social business that supports newcomers and Australians to achieve their full potential. Taking an integrated approach how everyone can thrive within the community in which they live and the wider Australian society, we support children, young people and families; people living with disability; and asylum seekers, refugees and migrants. Our programs include facilitating employment, multicultural foster care, creating community engagement, advocacy, and influencing government and international affairs and provide though leadership within our sector nationally and globally.

**About our Benefits**
- Salary packaging options to receive up to $15,900 of your salary tax-free meaning more take-home pay
- Industry leading flexible working arrangement supported to work from home and office, including 9-day fortnight;
- Access to in-house training and learning opportunities for professional development and growth.
- Access to our inhouse wellbeing programs
- Working alongside professional and dedicated team members all wanting to make a difference in our communities.

**About our Recruitment Process**

At SSI we have a zero tolerance for child abuse and is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is embedded in the everyday thinking and practice of all employees, contractors and volunteers. All employees will undergo a National Police Clearance and a Working with Children Check as a condition of employment.

**To Apply**
- SSI is a Disability Confident Recruiter, and our Talent Acquisition team can also assist in; providing alternative formats to apply, making adjustments to the recruitment process and offering information about workplace adjustments and support networks._

For any job specific question, please contact Ian Jacobs on 0402 354 167.