The Accoras Team

headspace Inala is an established Youth mental health service, focused on delivering improvements in the lives of young people aged 12 to 25 years. Our multi-disciplinary team of health professionals provides early-intervention supports to young people in the areas of primary health, mental health, drug and alcohol services, and vocation and education services.

Accoras operates headspace Inala, in a lead agency capacity. We collaborate with a consortium of local health and community partner organisations to provide complementary services to young people accessing our centre.

Accoras has been supporting children, young people and families across South-East Queensland for 30 years.  We deliver a range of programs aimed at providing early intervention mental health services for people of all ages. At Accoras, we proudly celebrate our successes and are committed to continuing to build a high-performing workforce, supported by a motivated and energetic leadership team.

The Role

As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will provide career development advice, vocational and employment assistance to young people currently engaged with headspace Inala, up to the age of 25.  You will work with the headspace clinical team to ensure young people can achieve and maintain sustainable participation in vocational education and employment. A high proportion of your time will be spent in the community where you will support clients to:

• Identify employment and education goals;
• develop a career profile and individual employment plan in collaboration with the clinical support team;
• Conduct regular job development and job search activities;
• Liaise with Disability Employment Services or jobactive providers to meet mutual obligations or requirements;
• Identify and meet individual needs and to ensure work trials and placements are appropriate for individual skills, experience, interests and capacity; and
• Actively engage with potential employers and stakeholders to establish local job placement opportunities.

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

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.

About You

We’re looking for someone with:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Human Services or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience in the sector;
• Demonstrated experience in a similar client-facing role within vocational rehabilitation or employment services and in working with young people experiencing barriers to employment;
• Demonstrated experience placing and supporting young people with complex needs in employment and educational settings;
• The ability to work autonomously to achieve goals and key outcomes for young people;
• Outstanding presentation and communication (written and verbal) skills;
• Existing knowledge of the mental health or community sector;
• Strong organisational and case management skills, with the ability to coordinate activities relating to a number of different clients; and
• A proactive, confident approach to building relationships and gaining the trust and reliance of potential employers and stakeholders.

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 the option to access generous salary sacrifice packaging arrangements (up to $15,900 tax free plus meals and entertainment package of up to $2,650).
• Flexible working arrangements, including the option of a nine-day fortnight.
• Paid leave over Christmas, your birthday and a paid volunteer day each year.
• Free, onsite parking.
• A ‘work anniversary’ lunch celebration with CEO each year;
• Fully-outfitted, youth-friendly consulting spaces for individual and group work; and
• Opportunities to work with and gain support from a multi-disciplinary team, including clinical psychologists, psychologists, occupational therapists and alcohol and other drug counsellors.

In addition, Accoras offers training and career development opportunities (including paid professional development activities), monthly supervision and has a focus on supporting the wellbeing of staff.

To be eligible for this position you must have the right to live and work in Australia and hold a current driver’s licence.  A working with Children Check, evidence of full COVID vaccination status and a Police Check will also be required.

The people we work with come with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views.  We are committed to building a team that reflects the same breadth of diversity and welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, as well as those from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds.

To Apply

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