Youth Worker, Foster

2 weeks ago

Caboolture, Australia Anglicare Southern Queensland Full time

Permanent Part-time role with 16 hours per fortnight,so great work/life balance
- Positive impact on supporting young people in placements
- Salary packaging to increase your take home pay

**About the opportunity**
Our Children and Families services offer a variety of child protection, youth justice, outreach, family intervention and family support services.

As a Part-Time Youth Worker, Foster & Kinship Care within our Caboolture team your role will help support young people with education, medical appointments, family contact, social and cultural connections, positive living skills and budgeting, and enhances the development of self-regard, community inclusion and family relationships. We have permanent part-time role of 16 hours minimum.

You work with the Coordinator and Practitioner to develop therapeutic interventions that will assist the young person through their Foster & Kinship placement.

A day in the role of a Youth Worker, Foster & Kinship Care will include:

- Providing support to children and young people incorporating a therapeutic and trauma informed approach
- Providing young people in placements with transport to school, appointments, community access as well as in-home support
- Being a part of a wider team who work collaboratively to help with young person achieving their personal goals
- Promoting good hygiene and good nutrition with young person
- Completing daily case notes, admin tasks and incident reports
- Participation in individual and group supervision.
- Must be flexible in availability for weekday shifts

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**About you**
The ideal person for this role:

- Must be empathetic, compassionate, an open mindset and patient with working with young people to create a positive and safe home like environment.
- Passionate about being a part of a young person’s life in seeing them achieve their goals, enjoy working one on one with young people in relationship based trauma informed manner
- Wants to be a part of a dedicated team that also share the same focus-driven outcomes
- Enjoy working with a diverse group of individuals and their families
- Do meaningful work that improves the lives of young people
- Values work/life balance as this role does give you this 100% with 16 hours permanent part-time

We also require workers to have:

- Already hold a Certificate IV or higher qualification in **Child, Youth & Family Intervention, Youth Services, Community Services or similar**:

- A paid Blue Card or have applied for one
- Child Safety Personal History Check (LCS2)
- Completion of Hope and Healing Framework training
- Current valid driver's license (Green provisional plates or higher)
- Be able to provide 2 recent references
- A COVID-19 vaccination requirement applies to this role - evidence of your vaccination status must be provided prior to commencing employment
- Flexibility to cover both planned and emergency shifts, weekdays and weekends shifts, **with the largest majority of shifts occurring on weekday afternoons.**

**How to apply**

**Andrea O’Toole or Julie Green** on
**5428 4949**.

Anglicare Southern Queensland is committed to the health and safety of our workforce. Shortlisted Applicants will be asked to complete a Pre-Employment Assessments that requests the sharing of information regarding pre-existing injuries, illnesses or conditions that could reasonably be aggravated by performing the duties of this position. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for all applicants.

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