Youth Outreach Street Worker

About ATSICHS Brisbane

ATSICHS Brisbane is a not-for-profit community owned health and human services organisation delivering on the unique health and wellbeing needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in greater Brisbane and Logan. We pride ourselves on providing health and human services, our way - supporting our people and community in our commitment to create a flourishing future and lasting legacy for them and their families.

ATSICHS Brisbane is committed to promoting the wellbeing, protection and cultural safety of all children and young people. Our recruitment and screening practices reflect our zero-tolerance approach to child abuse and our dedication to creating culturally secure environments where children feel safe, respected, and empowered.

ATSICHS Brisbane is a member of the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH).

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About the Role

Effectively identify the needs of young people in delivering targeted and goal driven supports that focuses on their genuine needs and aspirations. The Outreach workers effectively divert young people from becoming involved in the criminal justice system by providing evening transport from Brisbane CBD and Logan areas where young people are meeting, to a place of safety: most often home with parents or other family members. This ongoing contact with often the same young people allows us to link them into case management services to address whatever they identify they would like help within their life. The Outreach Street Worker directly assists young people during outreach coordination to access a coordinated wrap-around suite of services with the aim to achieve behavioural changes and engagement with ATSICHS Youth Case Managers. The Outreach Street Worker respond to the coordination on shift of the Outreach Team Leader.

Duties

• Effectively engage with young people on the streets. Turn initial 'service offerings', including transport offerings, into consent by delivering motivational interviewing and positive reinforcement practice interventions.
• Be upfront in explaining the rights and boundaries of the ATSICHS Outreach Program, client rights, worker responsibilities, mandatory reporting requirements, and complaints processes.
• Complete immediate scan and safety assessments of young people, particularly where risk is present, or danger to young person or workers.
• Prior to transporting young people, complete an initial 'Client Safety Screening Assessment' with clients to determine client risk and immediate critical needs.
• Build agency, self-efficacy and facilitate change through youth empowerment, while actively discouraging a young person's dependence on supports.
• As per the nightly route schedule, drive to all locations known to frequent by young people. Engage young people and provide brief interventions and prosocial engagement of young people.
• Adhere to the Digital Model of Care transport safety guidelines when providing transport services. Ensure all steps are completed prior to young people entering busses.
• Liaise with the Child Safety After Hours Team in supporting any vulnerable young people that require transport to a place of safety.

Culture

Enjoy working in an organisation that makes a difference in the community. Join our friendly and cooperative team that will help you grow personally and professionally.

Benefits

• Starting base rate is $37.97 per hour (depends on qualifications and experience) + 25% of casual loading and 12% super.
• Casual position.
• Afternoon shifts (3:00pm - 12:00am).

COVID-19 Requirements

• Immunisation history showing you have received two doses of a Covid 19 vaccine is encouraged.

Required

• No required experience or qualifications, however a commitment to complete a Diploma (funded by ATSICHS) while working.

AND

• Sound engagement skills of volatile young people, including the ability to de-escalate crisis in a calm manner.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and apply social work theoretical frameworks of practice, aligned with ATSICHS values. Ability to deliver client interventions that build client motivation, insight and acceptance, self-awareness, decision making (agency), and sustainable behaviour change.
• Ability to proactively engage with/develop strong working relationships with external stakeholders, particularly Queensland Police Service and Child Safety After-Hours team.
• Ability to identify young people to internal ATSICHS programs and services to activate wrap-around care for clients, trading-off and negotiating resources across the organisation and between other teams to achieve client impact.

Additional Requirements

• National Police Certificate.
• Working with Children's Card (Blue Card) or be eligible to apply.
• Current driver's licence.
• Evidence of Work Rights.
• Travel to work in the community on a regular basis.

How to apply

If this sounds like you, please submit your application by following the links on the recruitment page. Applications will be assessed with interviews being conducted as they are received so do not delay in applying.

Only successful applicants will be contacted.