Myh Youth Health Worker

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 876396
**Location**: 5010 - ANGLE PARK
**Job status**: Short Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Metropolitan Youth Health, Health and Recovery Trauma Safety Services (HaRTSS) - Angle Park - Christies Beach or Elizabeth**:

- **Salary - Classification - AHP2 - Allied Health Professional L2 - $88,250 to $102,240**:

- **Employment Full time - Long Term Contract (temporary up to 30 Jun 2026)**

**About the Opportunity**

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the Metropolitan Youth Health team as a Youth Health Worker in the **Early Intervention Impacts of Violence on Children** program in a **Full time, temporary role up to 30 June 2026**.
- As the Youth Health Worker in this specialist program, you will engage with young people who are pregnant or are parents, and who are disadvantaged and/or vulnerable to access and navigate through specialised primary health care services.
- This role is focused on the development and delivery of quality outcomes for clients through the provision of youth health care services within a therapeutic counselling approach, aligned to the Metropolitan Youth Health Model of Care.
- This role provides improved service access and outcomes for young people, working in partnership with their families and in collaboration with other health professionals and government and community agencies.
- Be part of a continuous service improvement focus, through research, evaluation and the development of, policies, procedures and practice standards for the organisation.
- Give quality supervision and professional development to team members, and less experienced staff.

**About You**

To be eligible you must have an appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.

To be successful in this role, you will use your:

- Knowledge of impacts of violence on children and contemporary therapeutic approaches in working with young pregnant and parenting people around this issue
- Knowledge of Domestic and Family Violence in a youth context
- Provision of a high standard of therapeutic counselling service and support of young pregnant women and young parents with complex needs in assessment, case planning and health care services within a one to one and trauma specialist approach around the impacts of violence on children
- Experience in working with young people and in particular young pregnant women and young parents and their children from diverse value systems, cultural backgrounds and special needs who are impacted by violence.
- Advanced interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to foster productive working relationships across disciplines, manage conflict and to contribute positively in a multi-disciplinary team environment.

To find out the specifics, including the **key selection criteria** and **special conditions**, please go to the attached role description.

**What WCHN Can Offer You**
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
- Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
- Free Public Transport for SA Health Metropolitan Hospital Workers.
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
- Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

**About Us**

The **Women’s & Children’s Health Network** is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

- specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
- state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
- community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
- specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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