Job Summary
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 19th Jun 2022
- Melbourne > Abbotsford
Youth Support + Advocacy Service (YSAS) is one of Australia’s largest and most comprehensive, youth specific community service organisation that enables young people experiencing serious disadvantage to access the resources and support they require to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
YSAS is a Child Safe organisation. We actively promote the safety and wellbeing of young people, and are committed to protecting young people from harm or abuse who come into contact with and/or access our service. Applicants must undergo rigorous screening and recruitment processes, including providing evidence of current WWCC and National Police Check.
YSAS is working in partnership with Drummond Street and Odyssey to deliver an Intersectional Care Coordination Platform called The Zone. The Zone will provide AOD support to young people and their families across the northwest region of Melbourne, funded by the North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network (NWMPHN). The Zone is based on evidence informed therapeutic process and intersectional practice aimed at increasing the engagement and improving AOD treatment outcomes for specific young people and families from diverse backgrounds and identities. The Zone recognises the need to privilege cultural and intersectional knowledge and competence within therapeutic service and practice decision making. It also puts at the centre the primacy of family as a setting for both risk and protective factors for problematic patterns of AOD use, but also its importance as fundamental to support recovery. First Nations People, LGBTIQ+ people, people with disability, people of colour, public housing residents or people with a lived experience are encouraged to apply.
The role of the AOD Nurse is to provide evidence-informed AOD treatment and collaborative primary health care to young people, using brief interventions, harm reduction and trauma informed frameworks. This position plays an important role in the provision of a comprehensive integrated and intersectional primary health care to young people. It has the overall objective of providing optimal primary health care to young people accessing support across the North West region. The duties of the position include managing community based withdrawal, screening, assessment, treatment, supported referral and health promotion and education based on a harm minimisation framework.
For full details of the position, please view the POSITION DESCRIPTION below or visit our website www.ysas.org.au
If you have the skills, experience and share our passion this is your opportunity to contribute to make a difference in the lives of seriously disadvantaged young people. Please apply via our employment page, by clicking the Apply Now button.
For a confidential discussion about the position, please contact Brydie Hill, Community Manager on 0418529471 regarding the Nurse roles Recruitment Ref.064_2022 and 065_2022.
A position description is attached.