Peer Mentor - Rockhampton

HumanKapital; Rockhampton Regional; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Fully maintained company car

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

HumanKapital is recruiting a full-time Peer Mentor in Rockhampton, Australia, to support youths aged 8-17 who face risk-taking behaviours and justice system exposure. The role is fixed-term to 30 September 2029 and involves mentoring up to 10 youths at a time during an 18-week program, with weekend workshops and family engagement.

You will apply your lived experience and trauma-informed practice to help youths, working autonomously and within a team, while engaging with families and external

Qualifications

• Trauma-informed practice mindset for engaging with youth
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Strong community engagement knowledge
• Capacity to build respectful relationships while maintaining boundaries
• Experience in similar youth support roles is desirable
• Lived experience related to risk-taking or justice context is valued

Responsibilities

• Provide one-on-one support to approximately 10 youths in the program
• Attend and support 2-day and 3-day intensive weekend workshops
• Participate in network meetings with families and extended networks
• Attend and facilitate youth support groups
• Engage with families, and liaise with external support agencies and community organisations

Skills

Trauma-informed

Autonomy

Teamwork

Community engagement

Relationship building

Boundaries

Lived experience

Education

Certificate III in Human Services or equivalent experience

Job description

About the Organisation

Our client is Australia's leading peer-led youth trauma recovery organisation, dedicated to supporting at-risk youth aged 8-17. Their mission is to empower young people by fostering healing and resilience through shared experiences. They do this by creating safe spaces, where young people with lived experience support each other to heal from trauma, make meaningful peer connections, improve mental wellbeing and overcome life challenges.

About the Role

We are looking for a full-time Peer Mentor in Rockhampton who has experience around risk-taking behaviour, crime and/or the justice system. This role is fixed-term to 30 September 2029.

The Peer Mentor's life experiences and challenges associated with risk-taking behaviour, crime and/or justice systems and their personal journey will provide the foundation to mentor and support young people who are displaying a pattern of early criminal and/or anti-social behaviours, with the intention to divert young people from the criminal justice system.

You will work alongside Case Workers assisting approximately 10 people at one time, with some overlap between groups of young people, through an 18-week program involving but not limited to the following:

• Providing one-on-one individual support
• Attending 2-day and 3-day intensive weekend workshops
• Attending network meetings with young people's families and extended networks
• Attending support groups with groups of young people
• Engaging and building relationships with young people's families and extended networks
• Engagement with external support agencies and wider community organisations and groups

Please note this role requires availability both outside of normal business hours and across weekends on an ongoing basis. Successful applicants will be required to attend 12 weekend workshops across a 12-month period.

About You

As someone with personal lived experience of risk-taking behaviour, crime and/or the justice system, you will apply your experience, and your journey, to support young people, applying trauma-informed practice, open dialogue principles and culturally safe practices in your interactions.

You will bring:

• Certificate III in any Human Services related field OR equivalent experience
• A willingness to purposefully use your own story to help others
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Knowledge of community engagement practices
• Ability to build relationships while maintaining boundaries
• Demonstrated experience in a similar role
• Understanding and capability to engage with people from a range of social and cultural backgrounds

Essential Requirements

• Queensland Working with Children Check (Blue Card)
• National Police Record Check
• Willingness to obtain First Aid Certificate
• A current valid Queensland drivers' license
• Australian working rights

Benefits

• Access to salary packaging to maximise your take home pay
• Fully maintained company car
• Professional development opportunities

Additional information

• Make a meaningful difference to today's youth
• not-for-profit salary packaging
• Fully maintained company car