Work Ready, Release Ready Mentor

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Identified Position
- Full time, permanent role
- Based in Adelaide Metropolitan Area
- Must be able to travel around the metropolitan area and to Murray Bridge as required

**What's on offer?**
- A Wellbeing Day every fortnight (9-Day Fortnight)
- Salary Packaging benefits
- Comprehensive onboarding
- Cultural Leave
- Access to Flexible Working Arrangements
- Personal development
- Positive team environment
- Coaching and Mentoring

A requirement of this role is that the applicant is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander pursuant to an exemption under Section 56 (2) the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (SA).

**About the Role**

We are actively seeking to employ a specialised role delivering our Work Ready, Release Ready (WRRR) service throughout the Adelaide Metropolitan area. You will support prisoners both pre-release and post-release from local prisons under the Work Ready, Release Ready program.

You will work with prisoners pre and post release to engage in services to transition smoothly into society with the aim of preventing re-offending. Work Ready, Release Ready Mentors will deliver sessions which will prepare prisoners for release, case manage prisoners and identify and address vocational and non-vocational support post release to these ex-offenders. You will source and support employment placement and six months or more of post-placement mentoring.

**About You**

To be successful in the role you will be able to:

- An understanding of the impacts of intergenerational trauma and the affects this has on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons and their families.
- Able to work sensitively and effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, while respecting traditional culture and values.
- A strong passion and drive for helping people find employment.
- Collaborative interpersonal skills and the ability to develop positive relationships.
- Ability to have a yarn with customers to assess, match and refer to appropriate job opportunities and talk them up directly to employers.
- Ability to work hard and achieve your targets to work to clearly defined KPIs.
- Able to use a computer (Word, Outlook, Excel) and have a good typing speed.
- Able to show strong administration skills and experience with data entry.
- Understands the importance for attention to detail and able to work under pressure.
- Experience working in the prison system or with ex-offenders (desired).

You will also be required to:

- Hold a current driver's licence;
- Pass a National Police Check and Vulnerable Persons Check;
- Have qualifications in Employment Services, social sciences with a minimum
- Certificate IV in a relevant discipline or willingness to study with the assistance from Workskil Australia

**About Us**

For over 40 years Workskil Australia has been a national not-for-profit and charitable organisation dedicated to supporting Australians find jobs whilst also supporting our wider communities towards positive family and social outcomes. We are focused on delivering culturally appropriate and holistic support services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. Our values remain at the heart of everything we do, and we strive to conduct our business with the highest degree of care, integrity, respect, honesty, and service. We believe that the care, respect, and high level of service we give to all our customers is our key point of difference.

In alignment with our values, we adopt a holistic model to provide a range of employment, work experience, disability, youth, Indigenous and community services across New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia, and Victoria.

We work hard every day to:

- Work with our customers to help them secure meaningful long-term job opportunities.
- Meet the labour needs of businesses and industry by providing quality recruitment services at no cost.
- Provide specialist employment and community services to people seeking work and who may be living with an injury or disability, including mental ill-health.
- Provide a dedicated culturally safe specialist employment and community program for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander customers.
- Deliver work experience projects for adults and Youth to the community.
- Assist businesses to diversify their workforce.

Our values remain at the heart of everything we do and we strive to conduct our business with the highest degree of care, integrity, respect, honesty and service. We believe that the care, respect and high level of service we give to all of our customers is our key point of difference.

**Remuneration**

A competitive salary will be negotiated commensurate with skills and experience. As Workskil Australia is a public benevolent institution, we can also offer a portion of the salary through tax effective salary packaging.

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