Lead Coordinator

**Job no**: 493401
**Work type**: Permanent (Full-Time)
**Location**: Kingston
**Categories**: Employment Services

**yourtown** is a trusted provider of services for young people, with a focus on mental health and wellbeing, long-term unemployment, prevention of youth suicide, child protection, as well as support for those experiencing domestic and family violence.

**yourtown** helps children and young people realise they have the ability to tackle whatever life throws at them. We help them to believe in their unique strengths, tenacity and self-determination. We recognise the courage and determination of children and young people when they reach out to **yourtown** for support.

Realise **your** potential at **yourtown**

**our program**
- Are you looking to tackle a new & exciting pilot program and make it your own?
- Do you have Employment Services experience and are eager to join Transition to Work in a new pilot program implementing evidence-based practice that improves outcomes for young people with a disability?

Join our **Transition to Work team in Kingston** to deliver our new & exciting PILOT **Inclusive Pathways to Employment** (IPE) Program. The IPE practise model will showcase that implementation though co-design, capacity building, a collaborative approach and individual support will improve employment outcomes for young people with a disability.

**your opportunity**

We are seeking two **Lead Coordinators** to join our **Transition to Work Team in Kingston**. In this role, you will implement and deliver the **Inclusive Pathways to Employment** (IPE) program by supporting young people with a disability to pursue their interests, aspirations, and goals to enable them to be socially and economically included in their communities, regardless of their individual challenges.

Your day will include:

- Manage a complex caseload of young people with disabilities, and develop individual case plans, outlining the young person’s goals and monitoring their progress and achievements against the plan.
- Increase our participant’s expectations, confidence, skills, opportunities, and career prospects as well as promote greater social inclusion, agency, and wellbeing.
- Work with and build capacity of schools and other stakeholders to anticipate employment pathways for young people with disability; change attitudes and reduce stigma, to support effective systems and pathways into open employment.
- Support our young people to identify their skills, capabilities, curate opportunities and provide vocational guidance tailored to the participant’s aspirations.
- Work with employers and ability to customise jobs that suit both the employer and the young person with a disability.
- Work collaboratively with the families, employers and community to support our young people to achieve their aspirations.
- Challenging the status quo and advocating for the young person.
- Actively engaging with the local community and gain support for referrals for our young people.
- Contribute and participate in IPE evaluation activities including engagement with government and policy makers.
- Lead and facilitate all facets of the Logan Beaudesert Community Investment Committee including enacting action items.
- The Logan Beaudesert Community Investment Committee brings together leaders from across different sectors (industry, skills and training, youth employment services, community, and all levels of government) with a shared purpose to develop solutions that benefit both young people and local employers, through harnessing community investment and expertise. We commit to challenging ourselves to think and work together in new ways, to test out new ideas and contribute to collaborative action._

**$89,651 per annum + Salary Packaging + Monthly RDOs + 10.5 % Superannuation**

**what we are looking for**

You are passionate about what you do. To you this is not just a job, it is your career - a choice that you make every day Your practice is client-focused, our young people are at the heart of it, and you understand that they are the experts in their own lives.

In addition, you also possess;
- Demonstrated experience in identifying and implementing actions including job seeking activities to progress the young person on their pathway to employment.
- You are resilient and can work in a fast-paced environment where no 2 days are the same.
- Great employer & community engagement skills - you are confident and love building networks
- Ability to lead a committee
- The drive to meet KPIs - it isn’t just a number; it is a young person’s life that you help change for the better.
- Proficient skills in using technology and systems; our compliance requirements are high, and your administration needs to be on par with this.
- Your practice is client focused, our young people are at the heart of it, and you genuinely want to make a difference in their lives.
- A solid understanding of the local labour market as well as the b