About the Role
Based in Albany, Western Australia, reporting to the Projects & Services Manager, the Aboriginal Youth Empowerment Program (AYEP) aims to provide culturally safe, trauma-informed, and individualized case management, mentoring and goal setting for disengaged or at‐risk Aboriginal youth, empowering participants to achieve self‐determination and positive life outcomes.
Aboriginality is considered an essential criterion of this position under Section 50 (D) of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984.
About You
* Formal qualifications or equivalent experience in social and community services.
* Demonstrated experience in developing case plans structured to achieve identified goals.
* Demonstrated use of organisational processes and systems to ensure all documentation requirements are completed in a professional and timely manner.
* Demonstrated awareness and knowledge of working with the target cohorts and broad knowledge of issues affecting people from these communities.
* Demonstrated ability to liaise, consult and form cooperative and purposeful relationships with staff members, community, government agencies, service providers, ACCOs and other stakeholders.
* Highly developed interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills and the capacity to build and maintain relationships with a diverse range of people.
Required
* A current WA Driver's licence.
* A prior Offender History Check no older than three months, to be provided before you start.
* A Working with Children Check.
Key Responsibilities
* Promote AYEP to service providers, stakeholders and community across the Central Great Southern region.
* Implement and deliver intake referral processes with community.
* Provide initial and ongoing assessment of client needs, including risk assessment and case planning.
* Provide proactive, persistent, reliable, practical and comprehensive support that respects the dignity and privacy of individuals.
* Contribute to identification of issues and setting of goals and tasks that are mutually agreed with and achievable for clients.
* Facilitate multi‐agency case management meetings and cooperate with other services as necessary to support positive outcomes for clients.
* Provide warm referrals of clients to external service providers to access specialist services.
* Provide warm referrals of clients to internal SAC programs.
* Employ a culturally safe, trauma‐informed approach.
* Ensure practices are compliant with standards of care and sector standards.
* Provide respectful and flexible services that are appropriate to the range of cohorts accessing AYEP.
* Adopt policies and practices that enhance access and are culturally safe and appropriate for the target cohort of clients.
* Accurately maintain client data in accordance with relevant requirements.
* Provide other reports as required and as negotiated with funding bodies and referral agencies.
* Ensure information and support is provided to program clients in ways that they can understand.
* Abide by SAC's Child Safe Policy Statement and Safe Practices.
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