Youth Work Coordinator. Full-time

**Job no**: 504181
**Employment type**: Full Time
**Location**: Toowoomba & Darling Downs
**Categories**: Child, Youth & Family

**About the Organisation**

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

**About the Role**

The Youth Work Coordinator is responsible for coordinating, implementing, and monitoring Youth Worker rosters, transport services and 24/7 residential shifts within Life Without Barriers policies and procedures. This role has a large focus on the rostering, recruitment, and supervision of Youth Workers.

This position is being offered as a **Permanent Full-Time position**. This position is based in **Toowoomba.**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Provide supervision to the youth work team in line with organisational requirements.
- Prepare rosters to ensure risks are managed and staff levels reflect the needs of clients.
- Monitor and support the coordination of new Youth Workers, including induction and onboarding
- Support the youth work team to undertake mandatory and additional training in line with legislative and organisational requirements.
- Support and mentor youth work team to support clients using organisational practice frameworks and support strategies.
- Monitor the timely completion of high-quality client records (youth work shift reports).

**Skills & Experience**
- Demonstrated experience in the Child Welfare or health related fields with significant co-ordination experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge of trends and contemporary practices regarding child protection and in-home and out-of-home care programs.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the relevant legislation regarding child protection and in-home and out-of-home care programs.
- Demonstrated ability to work with individuals, families and/or groups from a strength-based culturally appropriate perspective.
- Demonstrated high-level ability to work with individuals, families and/or groups from a strength-based culturally appropriate perspective.
- Current Driver Licence.
- Please note: To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or hold a valid medical exemption certificate. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process._

**Benefits**
- Salary packaging tax benefits, meal entertainment benefit, novated leasing and more
- Growing organisation with great career opportunities
- Ongoing training and mentorship

**How to Apply**

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. If you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face-to-face interview.

**Advertised**: 16 Oct 2024 E. Australia Standard Time
**Applications close**: 30 Oct 2024 23:55 E. Australia Standard Time