Youth Worker - Toowoomba

Employment Term: Casual
Location: Toowoomba
Salary: $46.68 per hour + 11.5 % Super + NFP Salary Packaging

Make a meaningful difference with UnitingCare

We’re looking for someone who wants to make the world a little better through small moments that leave big impacts. To build meaningful relationships and make a difference in the lives of others.

An integral part of our Out of Home Care Team as a Youth Worker you'll be encouraged to utilise your passion and skills to support our young people to grow, develop, heal and feel empowered. If you want to make a difference in the lives of our most vulnerable young people, this is the job for you.

Let’s make a meaningful difference, together.

Your part in our UnitingCare's team

We are seeking emotionally intelligent and passionate Youth Workers to join our Toowoomba Out of Home Care team on a casual basis. Working in accordance with the CARE model, you will be able to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children, young people and families by taking a therapeutic centred approach.

As a Youth Worker, you will support the provision of stable, trauma informed, nurturing non-family-based care arrangements.

Our Youth Workers work with young people in our care who have moderate to extreme needs, supporting them to:

Feel safe and nurtured in a stable environment

Feel a strong sense of identity and belonging

Support the practical application of the CARE model when caring for the children in their care

Build positive and trusting connections with family, friends and community

Develop to their full potential, growing strong social and interpersonal skills

Make healthy lifestyle choices and access health care services

In addition to the above your role will also include maintaining a clean and safe home environment, completing verbal and written reports as well as managing other day to day tasks.

What makes a difference for us?

Working with young people in residential care who have complex and challenging needs will require a calm and non-judgemental nature. You will be able to build strong relationships with young people.

Cert IV in Child, Youth & Family Intervention or Minimum Cert IV in Human Services, Community Services, Youth Services or related field

Experience incorporating the six CARE Principals when supporting Children and Young People, or reflection on how you would incorporate these into your practice

Hope and Healing Training or be willing to undertake this.

A solid understanding of the child protection system as well as having a strong therapeutic background would be highly advantageous.

Availability to work in a 24hr roster system

Current Blue Card (Working with Children), First Aid & CPR and QLD Driver Licence

Please note, that as part of UnitingCare’s commitment to professional development and provision of trauma informed care, successful candidates will be paid to attend training in person for TCI, CARE and Three Pillars of transforming care.

What makes a difference for you?

At UnitingCare we are leaders in crisis response, the protection of vulnerable children, financial resilience and family wellbeing. Our FaDS (Family and Disability Services), Out of Home Care team work passionately across Queensland to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.

Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance

Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum

A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs

A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others

Eligible employees receive 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme

Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events

Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference

We’d love you to be part of our UnitingCare family

Our FaDS, Out of Home Care team are passionate about their work with parents to ensure children remain safe in the home and parents have the skills, resilience and capability to effectively parent and meet their children’s developmental, educational, health and well-being needs. We also provide targeted services to men who are seeking to change their behaviour.

Child safe, Child friendly

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:

provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children

implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services

appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur.

Diversity & Inclusion

Our approach is simple – everybody is welcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.

Safe workplace

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.