EOI – Support Worker (Newcastle)

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (EOI) – Children and Young People Support Workers – Hunter Central Coast

• Work is based around Hunter Central Coast
• Excellent rates and allowances
• Mileage Reimbursed to the Award rate
• Work is needs-based and casual

Please note, this is an ongoing EOI for current and future vacancies.

About Key Assets:

Our purpose is to achieve positive and lasting outcomes for children, families, and communities.

Key Assets was founded in Australia in and has grown to one of Australia’s leading non-government children and family services providers. We provide foster carer, family services and disability services. Operating across all states and Norfolk Island, our purpose is to achieve positive and lasting outcomes for children, families, and communities.

We strive to continue our work in developing an innovative range of services for children and young people, while partnering with statutory bodies to understand and meet their unique needs, helping them to succeed.

To achieve that, we need people like you.

Working with Key Assets is about more than just a job. Our people do so much to put children first, so we do all we can to support them. We value you as a whole person, not just ‘a worker’, and without you, we simply can’t do what we do. And without us, the people we support won’t get the care they need.

We welcome for appropriately qualified and experience people to carry out Casual Children and Young People Support for various regions across Hunter Central Coast.

Support Workers are responsible for supporting foster carers and the young people placed with them through the provision of direct work and support with children and young people, as and when required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support/Supervise our children and youth (aged 0 – 18yrs) on an individual or group basis.
• Provide transport and/or escort our children and young people where necessary and appropriate (i.e. Birth Family/Sibling visits, after school activities and other general activities).
• Provide up to date and concise recordings (for example: family contact visit reports and child progress reports).
• Participate in support plans for children and young people for promoting life skills, engaging in pro-social activities, and addressing behavioural needs.
• Assist with holiday programs, camps and special events for our Children and Youth.

About you:

• A Certificate III or IV in Community Services, Youth Work or similar would be an advantage.
• Available during weekdays, afternoons and early evenings and weekends.
• Have prior experience in working with children and young people of all ages 0 – 18.
• Have experience in dealing with children and young people with ‘complex needs’ and/or who have suffered from trauma.
• Be energetic and enthusiastic, have a passion for working with children and young people while having the patience of a saint.
• Be values focused and committed to providing quality support to our children and young people.
• Be able to work under supervision as well as be a self-starter, able to take initiative and also work as a team.
• Be well organised and an excellent communicator.
• Be confident and able to deal with difficult situations.
• Have a strong commitment to the well-being of children and young people and their foster families.
• Knowledge in or have worked with children in the out of home care setting.
• MUST possess a full/open, clean Australian driver licence and have access to a full registered/ insured vehicle is an essential requirement (you will be required to use your own vehicle, km’s reimbursed).
• Be prepared to undergo and satisfactorily pass a National Police Check and other relevant statutory checks.

For further information on being a support worker and or coverage area info, please contact our Wallsend office on .

Being fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or holding an exemption for COVID-19 vaccinations is a condition of employment with Key Assets.

KEY ASSETS THE CHILDREN’S SERVICES PROVIDER is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce and all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We believe in diversity and inclusion in our team, and with that in mind, we encourage First Nations peoples, people from CALD backgrounds, LBTQI , neurodiverse and people of all abilities to apply.

We are a committed partner in reconciliation and all applications for this role are valued. We look forward to hearing from you. If you would like to more information regarding our commitment to reconciliation, please view our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) at keyassets.org.au.