Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time / From 07/10/2024 - 19/09/2025
Organisation: Schools (Government)
**Salary**: Salary not specified
Occupation: Education and Training
Reference: 1433525
**Selection Criteria**:
1. Professioinal skills and knowledge - qualifications, experience with young people, knowledge of current issues facing young people, knowledge of outside support agencies.
2. Support, counselling and referral - demonstrated ability to support young people who have complex needs.
3. Self Management - ability to manage and organise own workload and problem solving.
4. Developing and managing relationships.
5. Focus on outcomes for young people - eg demonstrate ability to maintain regular contact with young people, demonstrated ability to maintain own work to achieve outcomes and goals, demonstrated ability to achieve individual and team goals.
**Role**:
**Mount Erin College, **a mid sized secondary school in Frankston South, is seeking a qualified, experienced Youth Worker to join our Student Services Team. The position requires the provision of a range of services approrpriate to the needs of young people. The successful applicant would work with and support young people either individually or in groups, by developing and facilitating programmes that address social, behavioural, welfare, developmental and protection needs for that person. The position is a full time position for a 12 month fixed term.
**Responsibilities**:
- Supports the first aid facilities and assists in delivering first aid to students
- Undertakes administrative procedures associated with:
- delivery of various health, counselling, wellbeing and therapeutic services to a school(s)
- health assessments
- delivery of health and wellbeing education and promotion programs in collaboration with school community
- provision of follow-up service for students
- medical alerts and specific medical conditions
**EEO AND OHS Commitment**:
**Child Safe Standards**:
Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child secure standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:
**DE Values**:
The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:
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