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.

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For further enquiries and or a copy of the position description call 0435931082 or email admin@rivercommunityservices.com.au