About the Organisation

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

Join our Sydney Family Based Care team as a Youth Worker on a casual basis. The Youth Worker role in based in the community and involves providing high quality, flexible support with a focus on enhancing the lives of children and young people.

The casual nature of this role means we are requiring flexibility and availability for early morning, day, and afternoon shifts.

Key Responsibilities

• Work within a team to deliver quality services for children and young people who are living in a family-based care setting.
• Mentoring children and young people.
• Transportation for children and young people to appointments or to and from school.
• Supervising contact visits for children and young people with their families.
• Alternate care arrangement shifts, either full day or sleepover shifts in a residential environment.
• Develop individual, therapeutic, recreational, or skills-development activities that are consistent with and supportive of the care plans developed for each child.

Skills & Experience

• Certificate III in Youth Work, or similar or equivalent experience.
• Current First Aid Certificate.
• Unrestricted drivers’ licence.
• Commitment to improving the quality of life, skills and independence of children and young people.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Vehicle + third party insurance (we reimburse per km).
• Valid WWCC.

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check.

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or hold a valid medical exemption certificate.  You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.

Benefits:

• Casual hourly rate from $38.08 (Dependent on qualifications)
• Excellent salary sacrificing tax benefits incl. Meal Entertainment, novated leasing.
• Discounted - health insurance, vehicle purchase, hire and servicing and more.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Diverse and inclusive organisation.

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact [email protected] using the subject line: Youth Worker - Sydney enquiry via EthicalJobs.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face-to-face interview. 
  
Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA