Mentor - Parent Pathways Service

APS Level 5
- Adelaide, SA
- $87,264 - $93,294

**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer.

We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.

With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.

It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’- where our people reflect our purpose.

**The Role**
Parent Pathways is a voluntary service that provides personalised assistance and financial support to eligible parents and carers of children up to the age of 6 years. Parent Pathways is about parents and carers and their individual needs. Reporting to the Service Delivery Manager, Mentors provide eligible parents with flexible support to help them with personal, study or work goals.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities of the APS5 Mentor include:

- Taking a strengths-based approach, providing one on one mentoring to parents to help identify immediate needs, confidence levels and strengths and work together with the parent to create personalised goal plans based on their aspirations.
- Supporting parents to work towards their identified goals by providing advice, guidance and connection to community organisations, support programs, education, services and opportunities.
- Travelling within the Playford and Gawler Local Government Associations (LGAs) in South Australia to promote the Parent Pathways service at local community hubs, forums and events to educate and build awareness amongst parents, community organisations and referral services to ensure eligible parents are provided opportunities to be connected to the service.
- Providing flexible servicing options across the region, supporting parents with limited accessible transport.
- Identifying continuous improvement opportunities and working with team members and internal stakeholders to develop high quality approaches to service delivery for parents.

**Qualifications and Education**
The following are essential:

- Ability to obtain or maintain a Baseline security clearance.
- Ability to obtain or maintain a Working with Children Check administered by the South Australia State Government.
- Minimum Certificate III in a relevant field such as (but not limited to) Social Work, Community Services, Employment Services, Education or Early Childhood Education and Care, Health or Society and Culture or equivalent experience (including lived experience) and willing to work towards a relevant Certificate III or IV qualification.
- Class C Driver Licence.

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than 750 words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.

The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.

In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.

**Eligibility**

**Don’t meet all the role requirements?**

**Citizenship** - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.