Job Title: Transitional Support Worker
About the Role:
We are seeking a skilled and compassionate individual to join our team as a Transitional Support Worker. In this role, you will provide transitional support to young people in targeted locations to help them build their capacity to establish and maintain long-term accommodation.
The successful applicant will possess or be willing to obtain relevant qualifications, including a NSW Working with Children Check, Criminal History Check, first aid & CPR certificate, and undertake a pre-employment functional medical.
About You:
* You have a tertiary certificate in youth work/community welfare/social work.
* You have excellent knowledge, understanding, and experience of working from a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach with young people who have lived in Out of Home Care.
* You have experience providing incidental counselling and mentoring to young people with complex needs.
* You have experience building relationships, networking, working cooperatively with, referring to, and advocating for diverse services that offer supports to young people.
* You have well-developed knowledge of diverse cultures and community needs and issues as they relate to care of children and young people.
Benefits:
We offer a range of benefits to our employees, including salary packaging options, discounted private health insurance, career and development opportunities, access to over 300+ gyms, free access to our corporate Employee Assistance Program, and paid parental leave after 12 months of service.
Organisation:
We are a faith-based organisation serving the people of the Hunter and the Central Coast. Our vision is for people to flourish because of what we do, inspired by the way of Jesus.