Personal Advisor

Foundations Care; Tamworth; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary Packaging

Ongoing training and career dev

Flexible working

Professional supervision and support

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Foundations Care in Tamworth, NSW, seeks a Personal Advisor to mentor young people exiting care and coordinate services. The role focuses on building networks and skills for independence, guiding education and employment planning, and supporting plan goals through a fixed-term eight-month contract with potential extension.

You will engage with youth to address barriers, foster pro-social connections, and ensure culturally safe practice as part of a supportive team.

Qualifications

• Minimum Certificate IV in Human or Community Services.
• Ability to build trusting relationships with young people.
• Commitment to cultural safety and client-centred planning.

Responsibilities

• Develop mentor-like relationships with YI program participants.
• Coordinate services and support the leaving care plan.
• Help youths build study or work skills and employment pathways.
• Create education/employment plans aligned with individual goals.

Skills

Mentoring

Communication

Cultural competence

Networking

Education

Certificate IV in Human and/or Community Services

Job description

The Youth Initiative (YI) Program is an initiative that aims to prevent homelessness among young people leaving care by building their capacity, skills and capability. The primary purpose of this position is to work alongside young people transitioning out of Out of Home Care (OOHC) services to support and mentor them to develop networks and skills for independence and successful community living.

About the role:

Foundations Care is seeking a Personal Advisor to develop a mentor-like relationship with the YI program’s young people. This role will be based at our Tamworth, NSW location and is being offered in a full-time fixed term contract capacity, initially for eight (8) months duration, with a view to extend or make permanent, dependent on funding.

The Personal Advisor will be the central point for coordination and mentorship for all service elements accessed by the young person to support them to gradually develop the skills and strategies to manage change and crisis. You will build on the young person’s pro‑social networks and support the facilitation and implementation of the young person’s leaving care plan.

This position will also support the young people to actively achieve plan goals, including supporting the young person to build appropriate study or work skills, providing avenues for employment engagement, develop strategies to address barriers in engagement and celebrating achievements. This involves the understanding of the young person's history, interests, ability and motivation to create and implement an education and/or employment plan with the purpose of achieving engagement in sustained learning and/or earning opportunities.

About you:

You will ideally be an enthusiastic, knowledgeable individual with a heart for working alongside young people to assist them to develop the necessary skill to transition into independence.

You will show flexibility in your approach with a focus on creating a trusting relationship with young person/s but with a clear goal of achieving planned outcomes aligned with the goals highlighted in the young person’s leaving care plan.

You will always demonstrate cultural competence in your approach and interactions and will adhere to Foundations Care Ltd core practice and policy frameworks, engaging in self‑learning or training opportunities to further your knowledge and skills.

You will bring your knowledge and networking skills to the role and will demonstrate an ability to focus solely on building resources and strategies to improve positive outcomes for young people in their communities.

You will have a minimum of a Certificate IV in related fields of Human and/or Community Services; be enrolled in; or be willing to obtain.

Please note appointment to this role is subject to the following compulsory screening checks:

• National Police Check
• NSW – Working with Children Check

What we can offer you:

At Foundations Care you’ll be able to access a range of benefits:

• Increased remuneration via Salary Packaging
• Ongoing training and career development opportunities
• Flexible working and family friendly environment
• Professional supervision and support
• Employee Assistance Program

'Our Commitment to Cultural Safety'

We are committed to creating a culturally safe and inclusive environment for all children, young people, families, and staff. We value and respect diverse cultural identities, perspectives, and experiences, and we actively work to ensure our services and workplace are free from racism, discrimination, and exclusion. We recognise the importance of cultural connection as a key part of wellbeing and strive to promote culturally responsive practices in everything we do.

Foundations Care is committed to adhering to the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations, where children's safety and wellbeing is at the centre of our thoughts, values and actions.

Foundations Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we encourage applications from First Nations people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately and the position may close earlier than stated ifa suitable candidate has been found in that time.

We thank you in advance for your time, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.