• Full Time (76 Hours per fortnight)
• Fixed term until 30th June 2026
• Remuneration SCHCADS level 5 dependent on qualifications and experience + superannuation
• 5 Weeks Annual Leave
• Up to $15,900 for living expenses + up to $2,600 towards meals and entertainment can be tax-free through NFP Salary Packaging

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.

At YSAS we are committed to people of a diversity of backgrounds and identities being included, represented, and having the opportunity to participate equally in the life of our organisation and the communities in which we provide our services. We strive to create the conditions where people feel safe, enfranchised and valued. We value lived-living experience wisdom, insight, and knowledge.

About the position

YSAS is working in partnership with Drummond Street and Odyssey to deliver a Care Coordination Platform called The Zone, 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 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.

Some of your key selection criteria will be:

1. Demonstrated experience working with young people and their families in areas such as alcohol and other drug, mental health and homelessness.
2. Lived experience of different intersectional dimensions is preferred
3. Demonstrated experience in listening to the voices of people of diverse backgrounds and identities and a capacity to understand and appreciate their lived experience
4. Experience in establishing and cultivating intra and inter-organisational relationships with people and organisations of influence
5. Experience as an ally with people of diverse backgrounds and identities
6. Knowledge and understanding of the key issues facing young people.

Why work with us?

• YSAS has a true commitment to flexible working, ensuring that individual, team and client needs are met
• YSAS offers additional leave entitlements such as gender affirmation, ceremonial leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, fertility leave, blood donors leave, a generous Parental Leave Scheme and the ability to purchase additional leave.
• Access to learning and development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

For full details of the position and more about YSAS benefits please visit our employment website ysas.org.au/employment.

Please Note:

1. 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.
2. You must have Australian work rights to apply for this position.

Further Enquiries

For a confidential discussion about the position, please contact Brydie Hill, Community Manager, on 0418 529 471 regarding the Youth Worker (Outreach) position, Recruitment Ref. Number – 045_2025.

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