Community and Cultural Worker-Wollongong Flexible Learning School

Job No: WOLCCW03
Location: Wollongong
Employment Status: Continuing, Full-time
Closing Date: 27 Nov 2025 AEDT

Community and Cultural Worker - Wollongong Flexible Learning School

  • Continuing, Full Time
  • Commencing 19 January 2026
  • Salary $81,686 per annum 
  • 7 weeks of leave

ABOUT US

Wollongong Flexible School offers a full-time and multiyear secondary education program for young people who have disengaged from mainstream schooling. Young people typically express a broad range of complex education and social needs, and Flexible Schools respond with a variety of flexible and innovative teaching and learning practices, including vocational planning and the development of social connectedness.

The purpose of an Edmund Rice Education Flexible School is to provide young people with a varied and holistic set of learning experiences which enable them to identify and pursue an individual transition to adulthood, employment, further education and training and social connectedness.


ABOUT THE ROLE

The role of the Community and Cultural Worker is to provide culturally responsive support to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students both within the school and beyond the school gate. This includes case management and wrap-around support for highly vulnerable young people, as well as proactive engagement with families, Elders, and community members to nurture cultural identity and strengthen educational outcomes.

A key focus of the role is supporting students to re-engage with education by fostering a sense of belonging, cultural safety, and connection to learning. Working closely with students, teachers, and school leadership, the Community and Cultural Worker will promote cultural inclusion in the classroom, contribute to student wellbeing, and help embed cultural practices across the school environment. Further details of the role description can be found in the following points.

This is an Identified position and being an Australian Aboriginal and/ or Torres Strait Islander is considered a ‘genuine occupational qualification’ in accordance with section 14(d) of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW). The successful applicant is required to provide confirmation of their Australian Aboriginal and/ or Torres Strait Islander heritage.

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ABOUT YOU

  • Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and an understanding of the issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in contemporary Australian society and the diversity of circumstances of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate sensitively and effectively, with a proven capacity to engage in respectful negotiation and consultation with local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on matters relevant to education and support services for young people.
  • Tertiary qualifications at Certificate level or above, or equivalent experience relevant to youth work, community services, or education, sufficient to successfully carry out the duties of this position.
  • Well-developed verbal, written and digital communication skills, including the ability to participate in meetings, write reports and case notes, and engage effectively in negotiation and advocacy.
  • Understanding of working with young people, including relevant trends and issues in service delivery to marginalised young people, particularly within the alternative education sector.
  • Proven ability to work independently with limited supervision, as well as collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Current WWCC and unrestricted NSW driver’s license.

 

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

  • Salary sacrificing benefits, including FBT exempt payments of up to $15,900 p/a
  • Professional Development Opportunities
  • Edmund Rice Charism
  • Learn how to do school differently
  • Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment
  • Induction, wellbeing and ongoing professional development
  • Access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

HOW TO APPLY (Please upload documents in PDF format)

To apply for a position, please complete the application form below. To support your application, you will be required to provide a current CV and Cover Letter highlighting your qualifications, experience and suitability for the role.

For a confidential conversation about the role, please contact Michael Loudoun, Head of Campus, EREA Flexible Schools Ltd., on 0427 341 657 or via email michael.loudoun@flexi.edu.au

Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted as they are received.

APPLICATIONS CLOSE 3PM (AEST) THURSDAY, 27 NOVEMBER 2025.

The successful applicant must possess (or be eligible to obtain) and maintain a current Working with Children Check.

All applicants will be subject to EREA and legislative screening procedures. These checks are consistent with EREA’s commitment to child protection policies and procedures.

Edmund Rice Education Australia is committed to ensuring the safety, wellbeing and dignity of all children and young people.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

Edmund Rice Education Australia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

 

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Privacy Acknowledgment

EREA Flexi Schools Ltd is part of Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA), which is an organisation consisting of schools, entities and offices offering a Catholic education in the tradition of Blessed Edmund Rice.

  1. EREA Flexi Schools Ltd school’s collects personal information, including sensitive information about job applicants. This includes information provided in your job application, in the course of conversation or as collected from third parties on your behalf, such as employment referees. The primary purpose of collecting this information is to enable the school to consider your application for employment with the school.
  2. Some of the information the school collects is to satisfy the school’s legal obligations, particularly to enable the school to discharge its duty of care to enrolled students.
  3. Laws governing or relating to the operation of a school require certain information to be collected and disclosed. These include relevant Education Acts and Public Health and Child Protection laws.
  4. In order to consider your application for employment and to facilitate and manage your employment relationship with the school, you consent to our collecting personal information about you from recruitment agencies, law enforcement agencies for criminal checks and working with children checks, educational institutions to verify your qualifications, and other individuals or businesses we contact for the purpose of reference-checking as agreed with you.
  5. The personal information that is collected about you will be stored securely in a recruitment record. If you are successful and become an employee then an employee record will be created and the personal information we have collected will be stored in this file. Employee records are exempt from the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) under the Privacy Act 1988.
  6. If you are not offered a position or if you decline an offer of a position at the school the information stored in your recruitment record will be stored for 12 months, unless you advise us to destroy the records at an earlier time. At this time, the school will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify the information as appropriate.
  7. The school may disclose personal and sensitive information for administrative, educational and support purposes (or may permit the information to be directly collected by third parties). This may include to: government departments; people providing administrative and financial services to the school; anyone you authorise the school to disclose information to; and anyone to whom the school is required or authorised to disclose the information to by law, including under child protection laws.
  8. Failure to provide the information to the school will affect the school’s ability to evaluate your application and may result in the recruitment process not proceeding.
  9. The school may also use cloud computing service providers to store personal information (which may include sensitive information) on their servers in the 'cloud'. These servers may be located in or outside Australia. This may mean that personal information may be stored or processed outside Australia.
  10. EREA’s Privacy Policy contains further information about its use of cloud and other third-party service providers.
  11. EREA’s Privacy Policy is accessible via the school website or from the school office. The Policy sets out how job applicants and employees may seek access to, and correction of their personal information which the school has collected and holds. However, access may be refused in certain circumstances such as where access would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others or may result in a breach of the School’s duty of care obligations. Any refusal will be notified in writing with reasons if appropriate.
  12. EREA’s Privacy Policy also sets out how job applicants and employees can make a complaint about a breach of the APPs and how the complaint will be handled.
  13. If you provide the school with the personal information of others, such as other employment referees, doctors or emergency contacts, we encourage you to inform them you are disclosing that information to the school and why, that they can request access to and correction of that information if they wish and to also refer them to EREA’s Privacy Policy for further detail about such requests and how the school otherwise handles personal information it collects and complaints it receives.

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Edmund Rice Education Australia

Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) Flexible Schools Ltd is a child safe organisation committed to the protection of children and has a zero tolerance of abuse of children. We are committed to ensuring the safety, wellbeing and dignity of all children and young people therefore, all applicants will be subject to EREA and legislative screening procedures.

These checks are consistent with EREA’s commitment to child safeguarding policies and procedures. This includes complying with our Child Safeguarding policy and code of conduct.
EREA Flexible Schools Ltd is an equal opportunity employer that promotes the safety and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.