Youth Worker (Education)
Commencement Date: 2 March 2026 (negotiable)
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent 38hrs per week (work school terms only)
Salary: SOF Level 5 - $39.44 to $41.36 gross per hour (pending experience)
Closing Date for Applications: 5.00pm, Wednesday 25 February (unless filled prior)
Please note applications for this role may be reviewed as they are received, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible if you are interested in this opportunity.
Holy Spirit College - Manoora
The College is an initiative of the Diocese of Cairns and Catholic Education Services. The College offers individualised and flexible multi-year secondary education programs for young people disengaged from mainstream schooling. The College provides a variety of innovative teaching and learning practices that acknowledge young people's complex education and social needs and empower them to identify and pursue individual transition to adulthood, further education, employment, back to a mainstream school setting and importantly a connection to the community. Staff at the College will be multi-disciplinary in response to the diverse needs of young people and their families.
The College is a registered Special Assistance School across three campuses located within Edmonton. Manoora and the main campus in Cooktown. Cooktown has an enrolment for 38 young people in. The Cooktown campus includes a 32-bed years 7 to 12 residential unit for weekly and full-time boarders. While Manoora and Edmonton provide alternative educational pathways via day schooling for young people in years 7 to 12.
Young people who attend Holy Spirit College include Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people disengaged from mainstream education for a range of reasons including:
* with a history of complex trauma;
* with a history of extended periods of unexplained absences;
* who are highly mobile;
* who have had contact with the juvenile justice system;
* in the care of the Office of Children and Families;
* with mental illness or at risk of engaging in self-harming behaviours or substance abuse;
* who have been excluded or repeatedly suspended from school;
* who are homeless;
* with a generational history of early school leaving and/or unemployment.
About the Role
The role of the Youth Worker is to support, design and develop engagement, wellbeing and social inclusion responses and program activities that directly enhance the engagement of the young people that attend. All program activities are to complement the educational programs and support the engagement of young people's learning whilst at the College. The incumbent will be required to demonstrate competencies involving the self‐directed application of knowledge and skills to a range of tasks and roles. The skills may include developing frameworks for, and providing instruction to young people within a structured learning environment under the general supervision of academic staff members. The position involves working directly with children and young people on a daily basis and therefore must be able to demonstrate an understanding of appropriate behaviours when engaging with children. All young people are owed a duty of care while in the supervision of the position.
Work Requirements
* Hold a Working with Children Blue Card
* Current LR Driver's Licence or ability to obtain within 3 months of employment
* Be fully supportive of the ethos of Catholic Education
What we offer
* Competitive Salary range: per annum pending experience
* Annual Leave with 17.5% leave loading
* Access to salary packaging options to maximise your salary
* 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
* Access to long service leave after 7 years of continuous service (portability of Long Service Leave may also be applicable)
* 14 Weeks' paid parental leave
* Professional development and Early Career Teacher Support
* Access to Employee Assistance Program
* Fitness Passport Membership available
For further information about the role, please download the Position Description 2025.11.13_ASOC Level 5 Youth Worker Position Description (Without Classification Factors).pdf
To Apply
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Please note applications will only be accepted via the Careers website.
Enquires
Lucas Felstead - Principal
P: 4252 9100
E: principal.holyspirit@cns.catholic.edu.au
Intending applicants must be fully committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation.
To understand our commitment and initiatives to truth telling, healing and reconciliation view our Reconciliation Action Plan
Catholic Education is an equal opportunity employer.
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