Youth Worker - Mount Isa Flexible School

Schools; Mount Isa City; Hybrid; AUD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary sacrificing benefits

12.75% Superannuation

Induction and Professional Development

Support for new youth workers

Great team environment

Job summary

Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) Flexible Schools Ltd in Mount Isa is seeking a Youth Worker to support engagement, wellbeing and social inclusion for students who have disengaged from mainstream schooling. You will design activities that complement the educational program and work daily with young people.

The role is in an all-female classroom, with opportunities to contribute to trauma-informed practice and to work within a supportive multi-disciplinary team.

Qualifications

• WWCC clearance required.
• Valid driver’s licence (essential) or Light Rigid licence (desirable).
• Experience in youth sector with knowledge of local First Nations communities.

Responsibilities

• Support, design and develop engagement, wellbeing and social inclusion activities for students.
• Work daily with young people, including in an all-female classroom, with trauma-informed approaches.
• Maintain duty of care and assist with safeguarding procedures.

Skills

Verbal and written communication

Autonomy

Teamwork

Negotiation skills

Learning agility

Education

Degree/Diploma/Certificate in Social Work/Youth Work

Tools

Word processing

Internet

Database

Job description

Youth Worker - Mount Isa Flexible School

• Tenure: Continuing, Full-time
• Start date: As soon as can be negotiated with successful applicant

ABOUT THE ORGANISATION:

Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) Flexible Schools Ltd currently educates over 2,700 young people in 22 Flexible Learning Schools (12 based in Queensland and 10 other schools across Australia) and two Special Education Services Schools in NSW, with approximately 800 staff nationally. Flexi schools serve young people who experience complex educational, social or psychological situations which demand unique responses. They enable young people to engage in education in a supported learning environment through a methodology based on trauma informed practice, to co-create a Common Ground using Operation by Principles, in which the principles of Honesty, Respect, Participation, Safe & Legal are embedded. Our special schools serve young people with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities.

Mount Isa Flexible School offers a full-time and multiyear secondary education program for young people who have disengaged from mainstream schooling. Flexible Schools respond with a variety of flexible and innovative teaching and learning practices, including vocational planning and the development of social connectedness.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The role of the Youth Worker is to support, design and develop engagement, wellbeing and social inclusion responses and program activities for the school that directly enhance the engagement of the young people that attend the school. All program activities are to complement the educational programs and support the engagement of young people's learning at the school. The position involves working directly with children and young people on a daily basis and therefore must be able to demonstrate an understanding of appropriate behaviours when engaging with children. All young people are owed a duty of care while in the supervision of the position.

This role will support young people in an all-female classroom, working in women's business.

ABOUT YOU:

ESSENTIAL:

• A Working with Children Clearance Notice
• Current driver’s licence (essential) or Light Rigid license (highly desirable)
• Previous experience in the youth sector with knowledge and understanding of the local First Nations communities.

HIGHLY DESIRABLE:

• An understanding of and commitment to principles of social justice
• Understanding of current youth work practice, trends and issues in service provision to marginalised young people particularly within the alternate education sector
• Sound level of verbal and written communication skills, including participating in meeting processes, report writing and negotiation skills
• Skills in computing (especially word processing, Internet) and skills, or the ability to develop skills in database
• Proven ability to work autonomously and in an integrated manner as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Qualifications at Degree, Diploma or Certificate level with Social Work/Youth Work experience (or working towards a qualification) or equivalent life experience
• Energetic and willing to learn new skills.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:

• Salary sacrificing benefits, including FBT exempt payments of up to $15,900 p/a
• Edmund Rice charism
• Small group sizes with a flexible approach to learning
• 12.75% Superannuation contribution
• Induction, Wellbeing and Professional Development Opportunities
• Dedicated support to assist new youth workers
• Great team environment

The successful applicant must possess (or be eligible to obtain) and maintain a current Working With Children Check.

All applicants will be subject to EREA and legislative screening procedures. These checks are consistent with EREA’s commitment to child protection policies and procedures.

Edmund Rice Education Australia is committed to ensuring the safety, wellbeing and dignity of all children and young people.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

Edmund Rice Education Australia is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Edmund Rice Education Australia

Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) Flexible Schools Ltd is a child safe organisation committed to the protection of children and has a zero tolerance of abuse of children. We are committed to ensuring the safety, wellbeing and dignity of all children and young people therefore, all applicants will be subject to EREA and legislative screening procedures.

These checks are consistent with EREA’s commitment to child safeguarding policies and procedures. This includes complying with our Child Safeguarding policy and code of conduct.
EREA Flexible Schools Ltd is an equal opportunity employer that promotes the safety and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.