Youth Worker

Applications close by COB on Friday 27th September 2024
- Generous Salary Packaging
- 5 Weeks Annual Leave
- Fixed term until 30/06/2026
- Part Time (60.8 Hours per fortnight)
- Remuneration SCHCADS level 5 dependent on qualifications and experience + 11.5 % Employer superannuation

**About the Position**

YSAS is working in partnership with Drummond Street and Odyssey to deliver a Care Coordination Platform called The Zone, across the northwest region of Melbourne, funded by the North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network (NWMPHN). The Zone is based on evidence informed therapeutic process and intersectional practice aimed at increasing the engagement and improving AOD treatment outcomes for specific young people and families from diverse backgrounds and identities. The Zone recognises the need to privilege cultural and intersectional knowledge and competence within therapeutic service and practice decision making. It also puts at the centre the primacy of family as a setting for both risk and protective factors for problematic patterns of AOD use, but also its importance as fundamental to support recovery. First Nations People, LGBTIQ+ people, people with disability, people of colour, public housing residents or people with a lived experience are encouraged to apply.

The role of the Youth Worker, is to provide evidence-informed AOD treatment and collaborative care to young people, using brief interventions, care planning, AOD counselling, harm reduction and trauma informed frameworks. The Youth Worker will provide treatment and collaborative care that is both safe and effective for young people and families with intersectional needs.

The Youth Worker will, drawing on their lived or living experience, provide resilience based AOD case management as well as plan and facilitate intensive and structured non-residential AOD rehabilitation programming (both individual and group). The Youth Worker will collaborate and integrate treatment with co-located and out-posted services at The Zone.

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**Some of your key responsibilities will be**
- Service Delivery
- Provide AOD support and collaborative care to young people and their families (if appropriate/safe) using brief intervention, care planning, harm reduction, trauma-informed, intersectionality and Whole of Family and resilience-based frameworks.
- Consultancy and Advice - Contribute to the development and maintenance of an innovative service delivery model for young people (from the priority populations).
- System Management - Ensure all administration, data recording; maintaining case notes, developing intervention plans using the Flexible Funding Pool and financial accountability processes are known and adhered to.
- Stakeholder Engagement - Identify, develop and manage collaborative relationships with key stakeholders to enhance service co
- ordination including external service Outposts and In-reach.
- Professional Development - Commit to continuous and relevant professional development including internal training programs and external role-specific training and forums.
- Continuous improvement, collaboration and teamwork - Actively contribute to continuous quality improvements in service delivery/business support in collaboration with others.

**Please note**:

- Service delivery aspects of the role may be modified in order to comply with Victorian Government COVID-19 guidelines.
- 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 Brydie Hill, Youth AOD & Family Practice Lead on 0418529471 regarding the Youth worker (Outreach) role - Recruitment Ref. Number - 094_2024.
- YSAS has a zero tolerance for child abuse and is committed to the provision of a child-safe organisation.
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