• $83,988 + super + not for profit salary packaging benefits
• Full Time Fixed Term Contract – Parental Leave Cover to Jan 2025
• Location: East Perth WA 6004
• Rewarding work – every day you know you are making a real difference

Life at Mission Australia

When you join the team at Mission Australia, you become part of a community who are determined to end homelessness and ensure people in need can thrive. United by our Christian purpose and values, we stand together with anyone who needs us, for as long as they need us. Find out more about us and our purpose.

Your Opportunity

Mission Australia’s Drug and Alcohol Youth Service (DAYS) provide young people and their families’ access to a comprehensive range of free and confidential alcohol and other drug services. Its focus is to provide both physical and emotional safety and wellbeing during their engagement.

Based in East Perth, the Young Person Opportunity Program (YPOP) is an outreach voluntary service available to all young people between the ages of 12-18 engaged with a Juvenile Justice Team (JJT) who would benefit from learning more on the impact on their health, livelihood, and wellbeing. This service provides between 1 to 3 counselling sessions based on justice requirements to offenders, or those who do not have extensive criminal history who have drug related problems.

You will be someone who has a passion for working with young people in rehabilitation who often face complex issues.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Respond to referrals from Juvenile Justice Teams and coordinate case allocations.
• Complete assessments and intake processes for allocated people, including all necessary documentation and data entry.
• Advise the young person of the requirements, their rights, and responsibilities.
• Provide brief intervention and Drug and Alcohol Education
• Advocacy and referral to other suitable supplemental services.
• Demonstrated professional approach to maintaining professional boundaries.
• Complete a range of other administrative duties for the efficient running of the service including statistics, reports, referral letters, goal plans etc.
• Provide accurate and objective court reports on each young persons engagement in the program to the JJT within required time frames.

Requirements for Success

With a significant background in Youth Services with AOD experience and Community Services and/or Mental Health sectors, you will be confident in your case management and assessment processes. Other requirements include:

• A Degree or Diploma in Youth Work/Social Welfare/Social Science and a minimum of one year experience in a similar role.
• Demonstrated experience providing outreach, case management, case coordination, assessment, counselling, and crisis intervention skills, including working with people experiencing alcohol and other drug use issues, mental health issues, mental health crisis and working with intoxicated people.
• Strong evidence-based knowledge of AOD use and impacts along with expertise in working with trauma-informed practices.
• Ability to provide outreach engagement and support with young people experiencing risk factors in their life. This will require perseverance, flexibility, and innovation.
• The ability to work autonomously and create strong positive and effective relationships with key external stakeholders.
• Strong administration and report-writing ability.
• Evidence of up to date Covid 19 vaccination.
• Must have Full driver licence with no restrictions.

Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a national police history check, qualifications, and referee checks, and have a clearance to work with children/vulnerable people.

Our Culture

Our innovative and inclusive culture will ensure you feel valued at Mission Australia as you help Australians in need and develop in your career.

We’re committed to the safety and wellbeing of each other and the people we serve.

We recognise and respect diversity. So, whoever you are, if you are skilled and actively support our purpose and values, you would be welcome at Mission Australia.

Find out more about a career with Mission Australia.

We encourage applications from people with disability and Indigenous Australians.

If you have a disability and need support to submit your application, please email [email protected].

Your Benefits

To ensure our employees feel valued, empowered, and celebrated, we provide a range of employee benefits including:

• Make a meaningful difference to the lives of Australians in need
• Not-for-profit salary packaging, reducing your tax (details via AccessPay)
• Generous employee discounts with health insurance and major retailers
• Free external, confidential counselling and access to chaplaincy support.
• Volunteering opportunities
• Extra leave available including an additional public holiday and the opportunity to purchase further annual leave.

How To Apply

To be considered for this opportunity, click ‘apply’ and send your application today!

As a committed Circle Back Initiative employer, we will respond to your application.

Applications for this role are shortlisted as received and we are interviewing during the advertising period.
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