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Team Leader - Youth Outreach

Youth Projects

Is this you?

You hold tertiary qualifications in Social Work, Youth Work, Community Development, Welfare or a related discipline along with qualifications in AOD. You’re passionate about working with at-risk and vulnerable young people with AOD concerns and have the experience to back it up. You’re familiar with using a family-focused approach to case management with working with young people along with understanding the broader community context, that is inclusive of all community members.

You know your stuff when it comes to motivating, empowering, nurturing and growing skills of the team, and one thing is for sure, when it comes to delivering high-impact support to service users you see the importance of a team approach. You love developing talent through coaching and clinical supervision.

You may not be the captain of this team (…yet), but when we are in thick of it, we play off each-other’s strengths and have each-others back #1YP.

You’re bendy

You know not every day will be the same, you can switch from providing support to a service user, to providing mentoring to your team members, to writing impact reports for your manager in the blink of an eye. Changing lives is your passion but you still embrace rolling up your sleeves and mucking in to get the job done.

You see the person

You’re full of creative ways to meet our service users where they are at and believe that engagement shouldn’t be a one size fits all model. You always see the person, not just their immediate situation because you understand that everyone has different needs, and that is okay.

You care

Our frontline warriors and change makers are all here because we genuinely want to break the cycle of disadvantage, and we want you to want that too!

A bit about the role:

You will be working with our Manager Harm Reduction & Outreach to lead and empower our Youth AOD Services. Based out of our Glenroy office with outreach work across Melbourne’s Inner North West.

This is a brand-new role, here are some of things you could expect to be doing in your first month:

  • Providing line supervision to a dynamic team of Youth AOD Outreach Clinicians to support their work and maintain a high-impact, service user focussed culture
  • Managing a 0.5 FTE caseload focussed on engaging service users in structured and semi-structured counselling sessions
  • Supporting service users to reduce the service user’s level of substance use, reduce their high-risk behaviours and experience of AOD related harm, improve physical and mental health, including emotional and psychological well-being
  • Leading an evidence-based triage, risk assessment and prioritisation process
  • Ensuring some of our services’ most vulnerable service users are linked with the appropriate services to address the needs and barriers to health and housing outcome
  • Engage service users to improve health literacy to improve the service user’s capacity to better understand and manage their own health and wellbeing:
  • Integrating care with the existing service system to ensure enhance service coordination and collaboration
  • Conducting supported referrals across a range of domains
  • Undertaking professional develop to grow within your role
  • Work with the Youth Projects leadership team to implement business wide initiatives

A bit about us:

We are an independent, registered charity providing front line support to young people and people experiencing homelessness to open up pathways out of poverty and homelessness - breaking the cycle of disadvantage. Our focus is on respect, client-centred care, and harm prevention so people can lead longer lives, have improved health, meaningful employment, and a greater sense of belonging, safety, and security through our holistic model of care.

In 2021 alone, this is (some) of what we got up to:

  • Over 8,000 people accessed our services
  • Welcomed 16,431 visits to The Living Room
  • 80% of the young people we supported landed sustainable employment or education outcomes
  • More than 150,000 coffees were sold through our social enterprise cafes with $73K profit re-directed into homelessness and youth services
  • Experienced 130,000+ contacts through our harm minimisation programs

You can read more in our Impact Report or you’ll find us right across Naarm/Melbourne with our main offices located in Glenroy and on Hosier Lane right in the centre of the city, but we’re growing quickly and expanding to more locations in 2022!

Why should you work with us?  

We’re a casual and flexible, yet professional and high energy workplace. We encourage flexibility for a healthy work/life balance and although we are very serious about our work, we are very chill when it comes time to wind down. Every day you spend working with us, you’re making a difference. Although they're pretty great perks, we don’t just stop there… here are some of the others:

  • Free, locally roasted coffee at the office 
  • A portion of your income as tax-free through generous salary packaging benefits
  • PLUS additional tax-free salary packaging on meals & entertainment expenses
  • Flexible work environment & flexibility to take extra unpaid leave for travel while working
  • 17.5% Annual Leave Loading 
  • Uncapped Employee Assistance Program 
  • Additional paid leave for caregiving, wellbeing, family violence, study PLUS an extra 5 personal leave days

Site Location:This role will be based at our Glenroy HQ with outreach across Northwest Melbourne.

Salary

We’re a non-profit organisation that fills from a full cup but not a full pocket. In order to attract strong talent, we pay competitively and remunerate based on your skills and experience and are determined to make this the best job you'll ever have.

The Team Leader Youth AOD position is paid under the SCHADS Award Level 5.

Recruitment for this position will be undertaken as applications are received. The position will be filled when a successful candidate has been selected.

It is a requirement that all Youth Projects team members and successful applicants hold a valid Working with Children’s Check, Police Check and is vaccinated for Covid-19.

Our commitment to diversity

At Youth Projects, we value diversity and believe that a range of backgrounds brings a variety of ideas, perspectives and experiences that will enhance our effectiveness. We promote a workplace that actively seeks to include, welcome and value unique contributions and encourage applications from candidates with a disability, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and indigenous candidates

Safety screening

Youth Projects has a zero tolerance for child abuse and is committed to the provision of a child-safe organisation. All Youth Projects staff must undergo Police and Working with Children Checks.

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