Youth Development Coach – Transition to Work
Job No:
Berry3056
Location:
Gippsland
- Morwell location
- Full time, fixed term until 31 December 2019
- Generous Salary Packaging benefits
For over 140 years, Berry Street has adapted to a changing world, and we will continue to adapt to achieve our purpose. We believe children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful. Our Vision for 2022: Together we will courageously change lives and reimagine service systems. We look forward to working with children, young people, families, carers, staff and partners to achieve this vision.
The Transition to Work is a service to support young people aged 15-21 who are early school leavers or those who have had difficulty entering employment after school on their journey to employment. The service will provide intensive, pre-employment support to improve the work-readiness of young people and help them into work (including apprenticeships and traineeships) or education. This program is funded by the Department of Employment.
Transition to Work providers will help young people:
- Develop practical skills to get a job on a one to one basis or within a group
- Connect with relevant local community services
- Connect with education or training
- Find and complete work experience placements
- Find job opportunities in the local area
About the role:
The Youth Development Coach will take responsibility for the intake of referrals into the program via the ESS reporting system and be part of a dynamic and innovative team responsible for actively engaging and providing direct employment coaching to young people; offering guidance, career support and advocacy.
Berry Street will work in partnership with Workways to deliver the Transition to Work Service with Workways delivering in Traralgon and Moe, and Berry Street delivering in Morwell, Warragul, Leongatha and Wonthaggi. This partnership has been formed with Brotherhood of St Lawrence in recognition of our service’s capacity to work with highly marginalised young people.
About you:
- You will possess the ability to use a strength based assessment approach to focus on the abilities and aspirations of young people to maximise a sense of job choice and control over their employment pathway.
- Highly developed stakeholder engagement skills to engage with employers, local services and the community to assist young people to address barriers to employment and match the young people with appropriate employment options.
- A tertiary qualification in youth work, employment services (youth specialist), case management or other related fields.
- Willingness to work a flexible schedule and be available for travel and overnight stays when reasonably required.
What Berry Street can offer you:
- A thorough induction program
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- A great friendly environment
- Employee assistance program
- Annual Employee Opinion Survey participation
- Focus on positive work/life balance
- Generous salary packaging benefits
- An organisation that cares about you
For further information about this position, please refer to the position description.
Queries to Darren Teller or Deb Hamilton-Bean on 5134 5971
Applications including resume, cover letter and statement addressing the key selection criteria to be submitted by 1st March 2019
To download the Position Description, please click here
To download the Key Selection Criteria template, please click here
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Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify with a sexual and or gender minority identity. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.
Comprehensive reference and background checking will be undertaken, including a Working with Children Check and police check. Aboriginal people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply.