**Location**:
Perth
Employment Type:
CA - Casual
Department:
Social Worker Complex Care Stirling
We are seeking appropriately qualified and experienced people to join our expanding team of Youth Workers (residential complex care) working in our Transitional High Needs Placements in Perth Metro. The position is in a live-in (primarily 12 hr shifts) staff rostered home working within a therapeutic model of care.
**Benefits**
- Rewarding work - every day you know you are making a real difference
- Excellent rates, allowances + Super - SCHADS Level 3 - Casual contract, with possibilities in the future for permanency
- Mileage reimbursed to the award rate
- Ongoing training and support
**About Key Assets**
Our purpose is to achieve positive and lasting outcomes for children, families, and communities.
Key Assets was founded in Australia in 2007 and has grown to one of Australia's leading non-government children and family services providers. We provide foster carer, family services and disability services. Operating across all states and Norfolk Island, our purpose is to achieve positive and lasting outcomes for children, families, and communities.
We strive to continue our work in developing an innovative range of services for children and young people, while partnering with statutory bodies to understand and meet their unique needs, helping them to succeed.
**To achieve that, we need people like you.**
1. Do you have at least 12 months experience in providing **therapeutic** **direct care** to children and young people (0-18yo)?
2. Do you hold an unrestricted, current and valid Driver Licence (not provisional) to be able to drive a vehicle in WA and have access to a fully insured car?
3. Are you legally entitled to work in Australia?
4. Can you attend a Group Interview in Stirling on Thursday, 21st March 2-4pm? This will consist of verbal and written components during the interview process.
**Requirements for Success - We look for the following attributes**:
- Available to work a 24/7 rotating roster which may include days, evenings, sleepovers and weekends.
- An understanding of trauma informed therapeutic care to assist in deescalating and responding to critical incidents with the young person.
- Have experience in dealing with children and young people with 'complex needs and behaviours' and the ability to therapeutically manage these behaviours.
- Must have a current 'paid employment' Working with Children card for WA
- A current 'First Aid' certificate
- Statutory Checks will be completed on all new staff as part of our recruitment process
- Being fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or holding an exemption for COVID-19 vaccinations is a condition of employment with Key Assets.
For further information about this role in WA, please call Ben Wandei on** (08) 9207 5900** or **0400 401 628.**
**KEY ASSETS THE CHILDREN'S SERVICES PROVIDER** is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce and all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
**We believe in diversity and inclusion in our team, and with that in mind, we encourage First Nations peoples, people from CALD backgrounds, LGBTQI+, neurodiverse and people of all abilities to apply.