Disability, Youth Support Worker

Disability, Youth Support Worker, River Counselling and Community

Services. Kogarah, Sydney NSW. Child Welfare, Youth & Family Services

(Community Services & Development). Casual/Vacation. $32–$47 per

hour. River Community Services strongly encourages applications from

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people living with a

disability, and women.

About the Role We are looking for kind, caring and reliable Support

Workers to join our team located in the Kogarah/Sydney area in New

South Wales. Be rewarded in contributing to empowering our young

people and people living with disability offering consistent, holistic

support for individuals to build their capacity and achieve their

goals. In this role, you will be working directly with young people

living with complex trauma and psycho-social challenges, as well as

people living with disability.

We are looking for people with strong professional values of care,

social justice, creativity, and joy to join our team in providing

care, happiness, and supporting independence to those we support. We

are looking for individuals who are able to remain calm under

stressful situations and be natural problem solvers.

You will join our team of support workers who provide community access

support or in-home support to children, young people or people with

disabilities to help them to achieve their goals and build their

independence into the future. This could be mentoring support,

developing their living skills, or promoting their skill development

to achieve their future goals in home or in community.

This role will require you to have your full unrestricted driver's

license and comprehensive car insurance. Use of your own vehicle will

be required and compensated.

This is strictly a smoke/vape-free work zone due to working with young

people.

About Us River Community Services is a community-based organisation

that provides support across the allied health, mental health, child

protection, and disability sectors.

This includes psychology, speech therapy, and occupational therapy.

Disability Support Work. Youth Work and Mentoring. Foster Care

Support. Family Finding. EAPS. Cultural Planning. River Community

Services is based across the Maitland, Newcastle, Taree, Gold Coast,

Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Sydney, and Wollongong regions.

River Community Services was developed based on the aim to provide the

highest quality care to those we support while bringing joy,

creativity, and love to the work we do. We understand that we have the

capacity and the potential to change people's lives with our actions

and words and take responsibility and accountability in walking

alongside those we support to create a better future for all.

Skills and experience

Qualifications: Minimum Diploma in Community Services OR Minimum 5

years’ experience in Youth Work. (Candidates currently working

towards a Bachelor in Psychology, Social Work, OT or Speech are

strongly encouraged to apply.)

Experience in out-of-home care, child protection services, NDIS,

psychology or allied health services.

Experience working directly with children, young people OR people with

disability with complex support needs and disabilities, preferably in

child protection or out-of-home care services.

Experience in positive behavior support and functional assessment data

collection, including completing incident reports, shift notes, QR

codes and ABC data.

Highly developed capacity for emotional self-regulation, including the

capacity to set and maintain consistent boundaries to provide safety,

stability and consistency. Full unrestricted drivers license and

comprehensive car insurance. The skillset to bring love, care and joy

to the work we do. If you have the skills, experience and passion to

be successful, we want to hear from you!

How to Apply If you have the skills, experience and passion to be

successful, we want to hear from you! Please click the "APPLY" button

and attach your resume and cover letter. You are required to address

each of the selection criteria in your covering letter in addition to

your resume.