Job Summary
- Melbourne > Broadmeadows
- $41 - $49.99 per hour
- Job posted on: 13th Sep 2023
- Applications close:
Banksia Gardens Community Services is seeking a highly motivated and compassionate Youth and Community Support Worker to join our team. The successful candidate will provide holistic and strengths-based intensive case management support for young people with complex needs. Our work is trauma-informed, motivated by social justice principles, and considers individuals and their family within the broader context of social systems.
The majority of support work will be delivering targeted care packages to support people who have a child protection order in place and are at risk of placement breakdown.
Our organisation is proud to serve the City of Hume, one of the most culturally diverse places in the whole of Australia. BGCS is committed to human rights, gender equity and fundamental freedoms, in particular the rights of minorities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the LGBTQIA+ community.
We genuinely acknowledge and respect everyone’s individual values, beliefs, efforts, ideas, language and cultural and religious backgrounds and we encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
BGCS is a child-safe organisation and is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children and young people with zero tolerance for child abuse. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a National Police Record Check and Working with Children Check prior to commencement of employment.
For more information, please call Manager of Community Development & Youth, Paul Atkinson on 0410 212 672.
A position description is attached.