Youth Worker

5 days ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Education Full time

**About the Department**:
The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.
**About the Role**:
The Wellbeing Workforce is a growing, dynamic and innovative team who are passionate about helping prep to year 12 students enrolled in state schools across the Gold Coast, Logan and Scenic Rim. We work with students, families and school leadership teams to connect, engage and maximise educational outcomes for young people
The Wellbeing Workforce youth worker is based in schools, working alongside the school team, under the leadership and guidance of regional office based clinical supervisors, to maximise care for students.
**The role of the youth worker includes**:

- Enhancing students' social skills, assertiveness, self-esteem and problem-solving skills through a strengths-based approach to providing support.
- Using school data sets to monitor students' wellbeing and engagement and intervene early by providing counselling and support to address reasons for wellbeing concerns and disengagement.
- Work with students, and their families, to determine and implement strategies suited to their context that help students to have a more positive educational experience.
- Developing targeted strategies with students to address school avoidance or difficulties navigating social and learning situations.
- Work collaboratively with cohorts of students that may be facing similar challenges to build peer relationships and establish social networks for support.

Please view the Role Description for a full list of responsibilities.
**Highly regarded**:

- Experience working with children and/or youth.
- Tertiary qualification in youth work or similar.
- Experience working in a school environment.

This role is 0.7 FTE Permanent and 0.3 FTE Temporary. (Temporary period until 12 December 2025 unless otherwise determined)
Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.
**Interested? To Apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history).
- Attach a 2-page written statement in response to the attached role description.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

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