Youth Worker - Intensive Therapeutic Care
Core
Assist young people with significant challenges and trauma to develop living and life skills in a residential therapeutic care setting.
Role type
Youth Worker (Intensive Therapeutic Care)
Builds
Residential accommodation services for children and young people
Domain
Social services / Youth care / Trauma-informed care
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
therapeutic engagement with traumatized youth, life skills coaching, household management, cultural competency (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander), crisis intervention, role modeling positive behavior
Preferred skills
experience in education, emergency services, allied health, disability, or aged care
Technologies
None
Responsibilities
Assist young people to develop living and life skills; Role model and reinforce positive behaviour; Promote democracy and support young people to engage in a participatory environment; Provide support to children and young people living in the accommodation service including undertaking household duties
Seniority
Entry to Mid-level, hands-on IC