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Nurse

Youth Support + Advocacy Service
  • Generous Salary Packaging
  • Two-position are available
  • Fixed-term contract until 30 June 2023
  • Full Time (76 hours per fortnight)
  • Remuneration R.N 4, dependent on qualifications and experience + superannuation
  • AHPRA registration is required

About us

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.

About the position

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.

Your key responsibilities will include

  1. Service Delivery
  2. Consultancy and Advice
  3. System Management
  4. Stakeholder Engagement
  5. Professional Development
  6. Continuous Improvement

For full details of the position, please view the POSITION DESCRIPTION below or visit our website www.ysas.org.au

Please note

  1. YSAS is a safe workplace and requires staff to be fully vaccinated (two doses plus booster) or a valid medical exemption to prevent the spread of COVID-19. YSAS will request evidence in the pre-employment stage.
  2. Service delivery aspects of the role may be modified in order to comply with Victorian Government COVID-19 guidelines.
  3. As part of our Employment screening process you will be required to undertake a National Criminal History check and have a current Working with Children Check.
  4. You must have Australian work rights to apply for this position

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.

Further Enquiries

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.

  • YSAS is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from all sectors of the community.
  • YSAS has a zero tolerance for child abuse and is committed to the provision of a child-safe organisation.

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