School Leaver Employment Support Worker

**Salary packaging**:Up to $15,900 per FBT financial year
- **Benefits**: Fitness Passport & HCF Private Health Insurance discounts
- **5 extra leave days**: Access to an additional 5 individual leave days
- **Career growth**: Genuine career opportunities
- **Work life balance**: Flexible work arrangements
- **Salary**: Competitive remuneration
- **Location**:Based in our Broadmeadows office
- **Strong SLES focus**

**About us**:
We are a dynamic, innovative organisation committed to empowering people to create their own futures. Through the provision of high quality person-centered supports, we enable thousands of people every year to access the supports required for mental health, employment, disability & training needs. Working with us, you will be supporting our customers to achieve their goals and aspirations.

**About the role**:
This is a role in our **School Leaver Employment Support (SLES) program**.

This program is an early intervention approach for Year 12 school leavers, designed to support their transition from school to employment.

Each customer will have an individually tailored SLES program, that consists of 1:1 support and group support.

The role focuses on supporting customers to build employment readiness including customer service, time management, money handling, independent travel, effective communication, and learning how to take instruction at work.

You will deliver our SLES program to help our customers - young people with a disability - to prepare, look for, gain, and maintain employment. You will provide meaningful, individualised capacity building activities so that our customers can achieve their own employment goals.

You will use your initiative, identify focus learning areas, and use creative thinking to implement various strategies and skills to overcome these barriers.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Participate in developing and implementing individual and group-based capacity building, job readiness and work experience support
- Provide on-site support during work experience(s) to increase total understanding of workplace expectations and behaviours
- Support customers with personal growth and development
- Provide support and mentoring to customers that encourage a level of competence and independence with their employment and training goals
- Optimise appropriate work experience opportunities for participants
- Maintain necessary documentation of service provision and reporting
- Liaise and network with internal and external stakeholders

**About you**:
You are a passionate and dedicated individual who is looking to make a difference in the community. As a fun and creative person, you pride yourself on exceptional customer service whilst ensuring customers achieve their goals and aspirations.

**You will also be able to clearly articulate and demonstrate**:

- Ability to build rapport with a diverse range of customers
- Experience working with young customers with complex support needs
- Driven, energetic & committed
- Fun and creative outlook
- Strong communication skills
- SLES or group program experience (advantageous)
- Flexible and reliable (essential)
- Current driver's licence (essential)
- Working with Children Check and Criminal Record Check (or willingness to obtain)
- NDIS Worker Screen (or willing to obtain)
- COVID-19 Vaccination certificate (Required doses in accordance with Government Health Advice) or medical exemption

**What we offer...**:

- **Salary packaging**:Up to $15,900 tax free
- **Benefits**: Fitness Passport & HCF Private Health Insurance discounts
- **5 extra leave days**: Access to an additional 5 individual leave days
- **Career growth**: Genuine career opportunities
- **Work life balance**: Flexible work arrangements
- **Salary**: Competitive remuneration
- **Leadership**:Supportive and experienced leadership team
- **Culture**: Friendly and close-knit team environment

**What’s next**:
If this sounds like the perfect role for you, CLICK HERE TO APPLY NOW and start your journey with us

Please note: The successful applicant will be required to undergo pre-employment checks including but not limited to a NDIS Worker Screen Clearance, current criminal record check (no older than 3 months), working with children check, employment history and referee checks.

**All final applicants for this position will be requested to provide evidence of their COVID-19 vaccination immunisation record or medical exemption certificate as part of the recruitment process** _We do not provide sponsorship and no agencies please._

We champion diversity & encourage people from an Aboriginal, Torres Strait or South Sea Islander background or other culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds or people with a disability to talk to us about opportunities within breakthru.