• Program: Increasing Options (Get Set for Work) Program
• Hours: 37.5 hours/week (5 days x 7.5 hours)
• Term: Fixed Term to the 28th February 2020 (possibility of extension)
• Location: Based at the ICYS Head Office (15-17 Thorn Street IPSWICH) and the ICYS Regional Office (ICYS Lowood Youth Hub, Walters Street LOWOOD)
• Award: Social, Community, Home Care & Disability Services Award 2010 (QLD TPEO rates) Level 4.1 ($35.17/hr + super + leave loading + salary packaging)
• Responsible to: ICYS Service Manager
• Accountable to: ICYS Service Manager and ICYS Management Committee

About ICYS

ICYS Ipswich Community Youth Service, a not-for-profit community based organisation and registered charity, has been providing assistance and support to at-risk children, young people, their families and their communities in the Ipswich and surrounding regions since 1983. As a multi-service organisation, ICYS provides a range of support programs and activities to assist and empower young people to make positive choices and decisions for their future.  

For over 35 years, ICYS has been providing support and assistance to children and young people in response to individual need including assistance with educational engagement, housing and homelessness, vocational training, employment assistance, disability support, information, referral, advocacy, practical assistance, drop-in, emergency relief and recreational activities in the Ipswich and surrounding regions. Each year ICYS provides direct services to thousands of children and young people across five Local Government Areas (Ipswich, Somerset, Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim and the western suburbs of Brisbane) from our offices in Ipswich and Lowood.

Position Outline

The Get Set for Work Coordinator is employed to facilitate the delivery of ICYS’ Get Set for Work (GSFW) program which is funded under the Queensland Government’s Skilling Queenslanders for Work initiative. Skilling Queenslanders for Work provides skills development, training and job opportunities to unemployed, disengaged and disadvantaged Queenslanders through a suite of targeted skills and training programs. More information about the Queensland Government’s Skilling Queenslanders for Work initiative can be found here.

Specifically, Get Set for Work provides young people aged 15-19 years with nationally recognised training, combined with integrated learning support measures and foundation skills that will enable them to gain the skills and confidence to enter the workforce, go on to further training or return to school.