Support Young People with severe and complex mental health issues
Provide safe and nurturing care in a residential environment
Casual shifts with a base hourly rate of $44.54 + Super + penalty rates

ProCare Australia is the leading specialist recruitment agency for the community service industry in Australia, providing casual, locum and permanent career opportunities.

As the needs and demands of the community services sector grows, ProCare Australia is seeking to recruit qualified, flexible and hardworking Residential Youth Workers who can help provide support to leading services in the Government and Non-Government sector.

Residential Youth Workers are highly valued workers within the community services industry as they play a vital role in providing care to children and young people residing in the out of home care system or at risk of entering. Therefore, ProCare Australia seeks to recruit qualified workers that will be required on a casual ongoing basis in various Out of Home Care services within South East Queensland.

Whether you are an individual who has experience working within youth residential settings or similar, or are looking to expand your current skill set; ProCare Australia is looking to recruit suitable candidates whom we can select for our leading clients and provide them with workers who are consistent and flexible.

ProCare Australia provides worker support and initiates a tactful matching process to ensure your skills and qualifications are considered prior to shift allocation and we seek to ensure workers feel valued for the work that they do.

About the role:

We are seeking confident, experienced and qualified Residential Youth Workers / Mental Health Support Workers to work in a residential environment in Toowoomba.

The Young People have severe and complex mental health issues. Experience working with Young People in crisis, who self harm and have suicidal ideations is required.

If you share our passion for delivering quality client-centred services that significantly improve the lives of young people we’d love to hear from you.

You will be responsible for:

Supporting the needs of young people and responding to challenging and pain-based behaviours they are likely to display
Providing practical & emotional support to ensure children and young people feel safe and cared for in their care environment
Role modelling appropriate emotion-based and hands-on behaviour to help build upon the children’s life skills
Supporting children and young people to build upon their strengths and attain developmental milestones within psychological, physical, social and educational areas of their life
Transporting young people to education, recreation, and medical appointments
Maintaining the home environment/general duties
Networking and building rapport with external professionals to ensure clear communication regularly transpires
Completing case notes and reports, updating records and compliance reports

To be Successful, you will have:

Experience working with complex and challenging behaviours
A minimum Certificate IV level qualification in a child/youth related field
A current Blue Card
A current LCS check (or willingness to obtain one)
A current First Aid & CPR Certificate
A high level of reporting skills and computer literacy
An understanding of trauma and attachment theories and the resulting behaviours likely to be demonstrated by our young people
Regular availability for day and evening shifts, sleep overs and weekend shifts
A vehicle with full comprehensive car insurance and open drivers licence

Desirable:

Hope and Healing Certificate
Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) trained
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Experience working with Indigenous and CALD clients
COVID19 Training

Salary & Benefits

Base salary is paid between $34.50 - $52.65 per hour plus super
Night and weekend penalty rates on top of the base rate
Flexible working hours

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Find out more about positions available at www.procareaustralia.com.au

Residential Youth Workers - Mental Health Support Workers

ProCare Australia Toowoomba City QLD 4350

ProCare Australia

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