Program Worker Children Youth and Families

Program Worker Children Youth and Families

**Posted**:
08/10/2025

**Closing Date**:
22/10/2025

**Job Type**:
Permanent - Part Time

**Location**:
Tweed Heads

**Job Category**:
Community Services & Development

Social Futures is a voice for social change in regional Australia, helping to create connected, resilient communities. With more than 49 years’ industry experience, we are a community service leader, striving to create change through our work across homelessness and housing supports, youth and family services, sector advocacy and programs that promote genuine participation for people with disability.
- Job Description

**About the Role**:
We are looking for an experienced practitioner to join our Reconnect and Getting Together youth programs. Reconnect is a program that focuses on strengthening relationships between young people and their families. Getting it Together provides strengths based practical solutions for children, young people and their families. This position requires a practitioner who is passionate about delivering positive outcomes for young people, by developing meaningful relationships with them, their families and the wider community. This role requires flexibility to provide service delivery to both the Tweed and Ballina regions, dependent on the current community needs.

**While this position has a contract date till the 31st December 2025, we anticipate this will be extended.**
- Have experience delivering one on one sessions with young people and their families.
- Have experience facilitating family mediation.
- Have experience in developing person centered case plans and supporting young people in achieving these goals.
- Have an understanding of the barriers young people face.
- Are prepared to travel across the Tweed to Ballina areas to provide service delivery.
- Understand the importance of building strong relationships with key stakeholders, communities and other services providers, to promote best outcomes for young people.
- Are highly organised individuals who are flexible and able to manage a high case load, while ensuring KPI's are met.
- Can work with integrity when delivering support and interventions in alignment with the programs objectives.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:

- Tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in health, psychology, social work, social science or social welfare, health promotion or similar
- Demonstrated experience in the social and human services sector
- Experience and knowledge of working with young people presenting with mental health and/or other complexities including trauma, homelessness and substance use
- Demonstrated knowledge of trends and models of service delivery for community, family, housing, employment and/or youth programs
- Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining key stakeholder relationships.

**About Social Futures**:
Social Futures is committed to prioritising the safety and well-being of children and upholds the National Child Safe Principles. Working with Children Check and National Police Check are mandatory requirements for all staff.

**Our Benefits**:

- Generous Salary packaging options
- Staff Well-being Program
- Flexible wing options
- Opportunity to bank additional days leave per year
- Access to ongoing Learning and Development
- Staff Recognition Program and Organisational Celebration Events
- Organisational paid Parental leave
- Access to Pool Vehicles

At Social Futures, we believe in the value of your voice, and we are dedicated to making positive changes every day. We’ve got your back in providing a supportive and inclusive workplace, one that celebrates diversity and promotes inclusion. Here, your wellbeing matters to us.

Here, we believe in inclusivity, integrity, and learning. Why you’ll like working with us:

- Your voice will be valued and heard in our mission to support positive social change
- You’ll be part of a supportive, diverse, and inclusive environment where we celebrate individuality
- We prioritise your wellbeing, with benefits such as access to online wellbeing platform, flexible working options

**We are proud to announce that we have received recognition as an accredited Great Workplace by WRK+. Our amazing team makes our workplace special.**

Social Futures is a Rainbow tick accredited organisation and an equal opportunity employer and actively recruit from key communities; including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTIQSB+, people living with a disability, people with lived experience and people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

Working with Children and a National Police Check are mandatory requirements for all staff.

**How to Apply**:
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**Applications close Wednesday 22 October 2025.**

We ensure clear communication and a response for every applicant.

For more information about Social Futures please visit our website:
For further information, please contact **Gemma Smith**on**0477 994 902