The Accoras Team

Accoras has been delivering mental health and wellbeing services to South-East Queensland young people and families for 30 years. Accoras operates headspace Inala, in a lead agency capacity, providing early intervention and support to young people in the areas of primary health, mental health, drug and alcohol services, and vocation and education services.

Working at Accoras

Accoras was named Best Workplace 2021 by Voice Project – an achievement we’re really proud of!  Our team rated Health & Wellbeing, Health & Safety and Teamwork as the top 3 things they like about Accoras, highlighting a genuine care for our people at all levels.  In October 2022, Accoras was also honoured to receive the Earle Duus Award in the 2022 QLD Mental Health Awards, recognising the contributions our team makes to people living with mental illness.

The Role

The headspace Work & Study (hW&S) program helps young people aged 15 – 25 to connect to their career and education goals by connecting with their values and interests. hW&S is a strength-based service that tailors individualised support plans to achieve education or career milestones.

This role is mainly community-based and works with a wide variety of stakeholders including young people, education providers and local employers/employment opportunities. 

Your focus will be to assist young people to achieve and maintain sustainable participation in education and employment. This role works collaboratively with our headspace clinical team who focus on improving mental health and wellbeing outcomes. 

hW&S support is delivered one-to-one in person, over the phone or via video conference, with a view to run group-based sessions in the near future. 

hW&S specialists can help with: 

• keeping up with work or study 
• job readiness skills such as finding work, writing a resume and interview preparation
• reassessing study and/or career aspirations 
• helping young people make informed decisions in relation to finding meaningful career pathways
• assistance to settle into the workplace including targeted support for both employers and hW&S participants.

This is a full-time, fixed-term contract until 30 June 2023 with contract extensions aligned to the renewal of funding.  Based at our headspace Inala office, you will travel within the Inala/Brisbane South region with all work-related travel reimbursed.

About You

If you’re a values-driven person who can help young people to dream big as well as support them to design the steps necessary to achieve their goals, or if you can relate to the statement- ‘why be a Barista when you can be a Barrister’- we would love to hear from you! 

We’re looking for someone who will bring:

• relevant tertiary qualifications in Human Services or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience in the sector
• qualifications in Career Development and Counselling (highly regarded)
• experience, knowledge and alignment with the Individual Placement Support model of care
• experience in a similar client-facing role with a focus on achieving the vocational or employment goals of the individual using strengths-based values alignment
• experience working with young people experiencing barriers to employment
• experience placing and supporting young people with complex needs in employment and educational settings
• knowledge of the mental health or community sector
• strong organisational and case management skills and the ability to coordinate activities 
• proactive, confident approaches to building and maintaining stakeholder relationships.

Our clients have a variety of cultural backgrounds and life experiences, and we are committed to building a team that reflects and responds to the diversity within our community. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with a personal experience of mental illness, people who identify as LGBTQI+ and gender diverse, and people with a disability.

As this role involves daily travel within the community, you must also hold a current drivers licence and have access to a reliable, fully insured motor vehicle.

What we offer:

• Above award rates with generous salary packaging options only available to employees of a not-for-profit organisation 
• Flexible working arrangements, including the option of a nine-day fortnight or four-day week
• Additional paid leave over Christmas and on your birthday, and a paid volunteer day each year
• Professional development, training and regular supervision and mentoring.

To Apply

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