Youth Worker - Transitions and Pathways -Wollongong Flexible School

Job No: WOLYW02
Location: Wollongong
Employment Status: Full -Time
No. of Vacancies: 1
Closing Date: 10 Jan 2025 AEDT

Youth Worker - Transitions and Pathways - Wollongong Flexible School

  • Continuing, Full-Time.
  • Start date to be negotiated with successful applicant 

ABOUT THE ORGANISATION

EREA Flexible Schools Ltd currently educates over 2,000 young people in 21 Flexible Schools (12 based in Queensland and 9 other schools across Australia) and two Special Education Services Schools in Sydney. Flexi schools serve young people who experience complex educational, social or psychological situations which demand unique responses. They enable young people to engage in education in a supported learning environment through a methodology based on trauma informed practice, to co-create a Common Ground using Operation by Principles, in which the principles of Honesty, Respect, Participation, Safe & Legal are embedded.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role requires a person with the passion and skills to assist and support young people to achieve success in transitioning from school to post-school options that may include employment, further qualifications, and higher learning. The successful candidate will be able to work independently to achieve successful transitions for members of the school community as well as working a part of a larger school team.

Located in the school, the Transitions Officer will work with each individual young person to develop pathways, assist with goal setting, and provide learning choices to ensure young people are well prepared and resourced to leave school successfully. The Transitions Officer will build and contribute to local networks and partnerships to strengthen community connections with the school.

For more information, please refer to the Position Description by Clicking Here.


ABOUT YOU

  • Ability to implement a range of appropriate strategies to support young people with their learning;
  • Ability to work within the practice frameworks of Flexible Schools expressed through Operation by Principles and Common Ground (see website for more detail);
  • Demonstrated capacity to work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team;
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and establish and maintain professional relationships with all stakeholders;
  • Tertiary qualifications at Certificate level or equivalent qualifications relevant for a Youth Support Worker or such knowledge and experience to successfully carry out the duties of this position;
  • An understanding of and commitment to principles of social justice;
  • Sound level of verbal and written communication skills, including participating in meeting processes, report writing and negotiation skills;
  • Understanding of current youth work practice, trends and issues in service provision to marginalised young people particularly within the alternate education sector;
  • Skills in computing (especially word processing, Internet) and skills, or the ability to develop skills in database;
  • Experience in careers, transition or employment services;
  • Ability to work autonomously and show initiative;
  • Excellent communication and networking skills;
  • Willingness to assist with daily student transport to and from school;
  • Current and valid NSW Working with Childrens Check;
  • Current first aid certificate or willingness to obtain;
  • Current NSW Driver’s License. Willingness to obtain a LR license is an advantage.


WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

  • Edmund Rice charism
  • Learn how to do school differently
  • Enhanced Superannuation contribution options
  • Salary Sacrificing benefits, including FBT exempt payments of up to $15,900 p/a
  • Induction, wellbeing and ongoing professional development
  • Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment
  • Free EAP counselling services
  • Support Staff Level 4a (adjusted Wellbeing) $78,544.61 per annum

 

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@ereafsn.edu.au. 

 

Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted on receipt.

APPLICATIONS CLOSE 3PM (AEDT) FRIDAY, 10 JANUARY 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.