Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 25th May 2020
Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 7,000 employees working in more than 440 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.
We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.
Guided by the six principles of the CARE model, the Youth Worker provides direct care and mentoring of children and/or young people with a wide range of responsibility for specialised program activities, child/young person development and supervision, and promotion of a safe environment.
Our Child, Youth and Family program in Cairns supports children and young people within a Residential service who present with high complex needs; including high medical needs, mental health, disability, emotional and complex behavioural issues. Our ideal candidate will have disability experience and will be able to work closely with other staff to assist young people to heal from their trauma and achieve their potential whilst planning for permanency.
Please note: Due to the nature of the role, you will be required to work a rotating roster. Shift work will include afterhours work, sleepover shifts and weekend work (penalties included).
Please note - due to the current environment, community access is not part of the service offering. All shifts will take place in the young persons' home or will include an essential services such as medical appointments.
Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).
We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview.
Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here.