Youth Worker - Broome
Location: Broome
Employment Type: CA - Casual
Department: Team Manager Kununurra OOHC
Benefits
* Excellent rates and allowances
* Based in Broome – working within the East Kimberley region
* After School hours and weekends and day work
* Local community based opportunities
About Key Assets
Key Assets Australia is a non-Government, not-for-profit children’s and family services agency. We provide foster carer, family services and disability services. Our purpose is to achieve positive and lasting outcomes for children, families, and communities. To achieve that, we need people like you.
About the role
As a Youth Worker, you will make a positive and lasting difference to children and young people through the provision of quality care in a family setting whilst working within the parameters of the Key Assets Practice Framework.
The types of duties/activities will include:
* School pickup
* Participate in community events
* Sports/outdoor recreation
* Engage with families
* Taking Children and Young People to appointments
* Provide therapeutic supports
* Implement therapy goals
* Meet NDIS goals
* Provide written contact reports
About your attributes and experience
* An understanding of trauma informed therapeutic care to assist in deescalating and responding to critical incidents with the young person.
* Experience in dealing with children and young people with 'complex needs and behaviours' and the ability to therapeutically manage these behaviours.
* Prior experience in working with vulnerable children and young people of various ages from 0 – 18 years.
* Full, clean open Australian driver’s licence (not provisional)
* Current First Aid and CPR certification
* Current ‘paid employment’ Working with Children card for WA
* Statutory Checks will be completed on all new staff as part of our recruitment process.
For further information about this role, please call Natalie Franker, Snr Case Worker (Broome) on 0448 352 465 or Odette Stewart, Team Manager on 0456 606 650.
Being fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or holding an exemption for COVID-19 vaccinations is a condition of employment with Key Assets.
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.
We are a committed partner in reconciliation and all applications for this role are valued. We look forward to hearing from you.
If you would like to discuss Key Assets in regards to our commitment to reconciliation, employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or information on our cultural practice, please contact our Cultural Practice Leader on 08 9207 5900.
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