Work Ready Coach

**Are you looking for a role where you can make a difference?**

As a Work Ready Coach, you will provide professional, individual tailored services to participants to enable them achieve successful employment and/or education outcomes.

The Transition to Work (TtW) program provides intensive pre-employment support to improve the work readiness of young people and to help them into work (including apprenticeships or traineeships) or education. SYC delivers employment services at over 50 locations throughout Australia. You will be located primarily in our **Strathpine** site on a **full-time** permanent basis.

In this role, you’ll be part of a supportive and result driven team who are dedicated to our vision of wellbeing, independence, and opportunity for everyone.

The day-to-day activities will include:

- Conducting comprehensive assessments to identify participants individual needs, barriers and career goals.
- Providing effective coaching, case management and client services to participants.
- Collaborating with the Youth Employment Coaches and other key stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
- Developing and facilitating group activities and training with participants.
- Providing proactive coaching and support of participants on work experience activities.

**About You**
- Experience in effectively engaging and working with young people
- Time management and organisational skills, including the ability to plan, prioritise and achieve outcomes.
- Sound interpersonal, conflict resolution and negotiation skills; and the ability to identify innovative and lateral solutions to problems
- Knowledge of education, training, and employment options available to young people

**For this role, you will need to**:

- Be willing to complete a Working with Children Check, National Police Check
- Be eligible to work in Australia
- Have possession of a current valid Driver’s License and a willingness to drive.
- Where a motor vehicle allowance is paid for the use of the employee’s personal vehicle for work purposes, the employee’s vehicle used must have a safety rating of 4 or 5-star ANCAP or EURO-NCAP to be used for SYC business purposes.
- Prepared to work from, or be located at, any SYC site.

**Why join Team SYC?**
- Increase your pay with Salary Packaging options
- Career development opportunities
- Enjoy an additional day off to celebrate your Birthday*
- Access an additional one week of paid leave each year, through SYC loyalty leave*
- Be provided an additional paid personal leave
- Stay healthy with discounted Corporate Private Health Cover
- Access our free and confidential Employee Assistance Program
- Discounted gym membership for all employees
- Enjoy special benefits with Beaurepaires
- Qualifying periods apply.

**About us**

**SYC** has a relentless belief in people and their potential. We provide services that foster wellbeing, independence and opportunity for all Australians. As a not-for-profit organisation, we invest back into the Australian community, helping tens of thousands of people every year with housing, education and employment. Founded in 1958 to support young people experiencing disadvantage, we now extend this expertise to people of all ages.

**If you match the criteria above, we want to hear from you**

**We’re proud to be a Circle Back Initiative Employer and we commit to respond to every applicant.**

SYC is a Child Safe organisation and will require the successful applicant to complete pre-employment checks. This includes a Working with Children Check and National Police Check.