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Residential Worker

Career Employment Australia
Cairns, QLD
A$35-$37 p/h
Community Services & Development → Indigenous & Multicultural Services
Casual
On-site

Posted 27 days ago


Career Employment Australia are currently recruiting for a residential worker to supervise young adults residing in accommodation provided through the Indigenous Youth Mobility Pathways Project (IYMP). IYMP assists young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from remote regions to relocate to Cairns to undertake Vocational courses, University studies and Australian Apprenticeships.

The residential worker is responsible for teaching and assisting IYMP students to undertake domestic tasks including:

Cooking

Cleaning

Laundry

Creating and following meal plans

Creating and following chores rosters

Maintaining outdoor areas and gardens

Developing grocery lists; and

Facilitating a variety of recreational and cultural events

Casual Role offering 20 - 40 hrs per fortnight. Sleep over is required on some shifts.

The successful applicant must:

Have a good understanding of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultures.

Have an open drivers licence.

Have experience in managing domestic households

Have the ability to obtain a National Police Clearance and working with children clearance.

Have a strong passion and commitment to promoting education and leadership.

If you would like to work for a project which inspires our future generation of Indigenous leaders please apply.


About Career Employment Australia

Adelaide, SA, Australia

CEA was one of the original Registered Training Organizations in Queensland (RTO No. 0104). The organisation opened an office in Brisbane in May 1994 and now services clients throughout Queensland and in other parts of Australia. Today CEA manages 18 state and federal programs, funds charitable services, and operates several social enterprises. The contracts CEA manages include:

Indigenous Youth Mobility Pathways (IYMP) Project, funded by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, which assists young Indigenous people identified by their communities to relocate to a city for training purposes. These young people are housed by CEA and under the guidance of their Indigenous house parents, learn life skills and undertake formal study and training in numeracy and literacy , child care, nursing, administration and medicine, avionics etc. Due to its success, CEA now manages the program locations in Adelaide, Perth, Alice Springs, Cairns, Coffs Harbour, Darwin, Dubbo, Mossman, Townsville, Rockhampton and Toowoomba.

Skills in Education and Employment (SEE), funded by the Department of Industry and providing language, literacy and numeracy training for Australians combined with work skills e.g. LLN-supported Aged Care and Retail training.

Registered Training in Aged Care, Disability, Retail, Engineering, Horticulture, Language Literacy and Numeracy and work skills programs to assist long term unemployed people back into the workforce.

Offender Reintegration Support Service (ORSS) - CEA delivers the through-care ORSS in Cairns, Townsville and Rockhampton preparing offenders for release. Staff assist 6 months post release with housing, mental health issues, transport, family relations, anger management to ensure they remain crime free in the community.

Pathway2Employment (P2E) - This ‘through-care’ program commences in prisons (Cairns and Maryborough), engages with clients and prepares clients for life and work post release. Case Managers provide parallel services with JSAs and link with Probation and Parole to provide a holistic service to ex-offenders.

Source: This is an extract from the company's own website.

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