Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 1st Jun 2021
Hello!
We’re Little Dreamers, Australia’s leading non-profit organisation working with Young Carers around the country.
A Young Carer is anyone under the age of 25 who currently provides, or intends to provide, care in their family for a parent or sibling who has a chronic illness, mental illness, disability, or addiction.
Founded in 2009 by a Young Carer, we love building and delivering high-quality programs that create a deep and meaningful impact in the lives of young people providing care in their families. And we’re pretty good at it too. To date, we have supported over 5,000 Young Carers, we deliver eight core programs alongside ad hoc supports, advocacy, and community awareness campaigns. We have strong corporate partnership and funding relationships and have raised over $3 million to improve the quality of life for Young Carers around Australia. We have even received recognition from Queen Elizabeth II and have been named as an international best practice organisation for Young Carer support.
Our team is made up of over 40 incredible humans working across VIC, NSW, QLD, and SA. We are humble, hungry, and kind and work hard to reach our goals. We believe in a world where every single Young Carer is supported by someone or something by 2030. Sounds fun right?!
By joining the Dream Team, you will play an integral part in supporting young people who often miss out on having a childhood.
As our Family Support Worker (0.6 FTE based in Miranda, NSW), you will be responsible for managing a caseload of Young Carers, coordinating support, conducting outreach to community organisations, and managing the development and delivery of allocated programs.
This role aims to focus on supporting families; working closely with high-risk, high-need families; developing community organisation partnerships and collaboration opportunities; and the development and delivery of Little Dreamers programs.
Internally, you will support your Young Carers to achieve their goals, manage and grow allocated programs, ensure the implementation of risk management strategies, track and manage program delivery within budget guidelines and participate in the continued evaluation and refinement of Little Dreamers’ programs.
Externally, you will contribute to the development of sector partnerships to raise awareness for Little Dreamers across NSW and contribute to funding proposals by providing the required information in specified timelines.
You have experience working with vulnerable young people, coordinating programs, and providing basic case management. You have outstanding leadership and relationship-building skills and ideally, you have worked in a for-purpose company, not-for-profit or government organisation.
Each day that you come to work you are changing a life. The more that Little Dreamers grows, the more impact we have and you’re a key part of that. We think that’s a pretty top perk, but we don’t stop there…
Little Dreamers is a growing not-for-profit organisation with start-up vibes. What does this mean in practice? If you have an idea you want to pitch that positively impacts Young Carers or our team that supports them, let’s make it happen. We’re all ears! You also get access to salary packaging (more tax-free income in your pocket? What’s better than that!) and our Melbourne office is dog friendly, so hello unlimited cuddles and puppy hangs with our Chief Barketing Officer, Daisy.
Finally, we care as much about you as we do about our Young Carers. The Little Dreamers team is a family and we offer flexible working and regular team bonding events.
All of our salaries align with the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Award. In practice, this means that all of our Job Ads will have a salary range and Award alignment and the rest depends on your experience. Our Family Support Worker role aligns with SCHADS Award Level 3.
On top of the normal perks like annual leave, you will also have access to an additional 10 days of paid Carers Leave, generous parental leave, salary packaging, individual training and development budgets, and a whole bunch of other things. Oh, did we mention that there is always some kind of confetti in the office? It’s a pretty happy vibe.