Join us as a Job Coach in Employment Services

• Vacancy Type: Fixed Term (12 months) with a possibility of extension
• Location – Footscray and North Western Suburbs
• Job reference: 494596
• Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Job Coach team in Footscray and North Western Suburbs. If you’re looking for work with purpose, that has the ability to change peoples’ lives for the better, we want to hear from you. The right person has great opportunity for career progression within the team.

The Job Coach’s role is to guide our clients towards job- readiness and enabling opportunities for employment once they are ready for work. As one of our Job Coaches, you will be at the forefront of our services, working one-on-one with clients to provide support for a sustainable career.

On a typical day as a Job Coach you might be:

• Encouraging and motivating participants through appropriate activities of discovery that help lead to employment;
• Building sustainable relationships with local employers who can provide tailored job opportunities for our clients;
• Supporting clients and employers build solid foundations during the employment phase so employment is ongoing and sustainable:
• Ensuring all activity is appropriately recorded, documented and adheres to compliance and/or contractual requirements; and
• Ensuring our clients, employers and those we work with, receive exceptional service at every stage of the process.

You will be working with a vibrant, collaborative and goals focused team of employment services professionals from diverse backgrounds, who are all seeking to have an impact in the diversity and inclusion space.

More About the Role

The Job Coach will be responsible for guiding and mentoring our clients to achieve their employment goals.

You will be able to think outside the box, communicate with a range of key stakeholders and broker work-integrated learning job opportunities, leading to rewarding and sustainable employment using the customised employment model.

The customised employment model includes assessing the pre-employment & employment needs of people with a disability, assisting with employment related capacity building, preparing them for work, assisting them to achieve employment & supporting them to maintain employment.

This position will work closely with Community Supports to ensure the person with a disability has all the supports required to sustain employment.

We Offer

• Competitive salary on offer + Super and excellent salary packaging tax benefits
• Flexible working hours
• A rewarding career in a growing service sector
• A supportive team environment
• The opportunity to work alongside and empower people with disability to reach their maximum potential
• Ongoing training, team support and professional development opportunities

About You

To be successful in this role you'll share Yooralla's Values and have:

• Inclusive practice: A strong commitment to the inclusion of people with disabilities within the community.
• Sector Knowledge: Understanding of legislation and standards relevant to the disability sector.
• Relationship Building: Experience dealing with a broad cross-section of stakeholders, and strong stakeholder management, including employers, potential employers and other partners
• Communication Skills: Excellent customer service and interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong attention to detail, ability to prioritise work and meet deadlines
• Minimum Certificate IV, or relevant work experience in disability, community services, employment services or a related field

Other Mandatory requirements

• International Police Check (if required)
• Working with Children Check
• NDIS Worker Screening Check (Due to NDIS requirements we are unable to employ for this role without an NDISWC. We therefore strongly encourage applicants to commence the NDISWC prior to interviews, as clearance can take in excess of 4 weeks)
• Current driver's licence to drive in Australia

Vacancy contact

To find out more about this role or working with Yooralla, please contact Ross McLatchie on 0403 811 979 or [email protected] using the subject line: Job Coach enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Why Yooralla?

At Yooralla, you’ll work at Victoria’s most established and recognised for purpose disability service provider with more than 100 years of experience offering high quality support services to people with disability. We work in partnership with adults and children, their families and carers to enable them to live the lives they choose. Find out more about what we do.

We believe in diversity, inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of the Victorian community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings, and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies. We strongly encourage people with disability, LGBTQIA+ and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands People to apply.

Find out more about our workplace culture