Job Summary
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 28th Jun 2022
- Melbourne > Sunshine
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 host five sites 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 Youth Worker, is to provide evidence-informed AOD treatment and collaborative care to young people, using brief interventions, care planning, AOD counselling, harm reduction and trauma informed frameworks. The Youth Worker will provide treatment and collaborative care that is both safe and effective for young people and families with intersectional needs.
The Youth Worker will, drawing on their lived or living experience, provide resilience based AOD case management as well as plan and facilitate intensive and structured non-residential AOD rehabilitation programming (both individual and group). The Youth Worker will collaborate and integrate treatment with co-located and out-posted services at The Zone.
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 Youth worker (outreach) role Recruitment Ref.061_2022.