Description:
Position Summary
Tangentyere Council Aboriginal Corporation (TCAC) is a community controlled Public Benevolent Institution delivering human services and social enterprise activities for the benefit of Aboriginal people from the Alice Springs Town Camps, urban Alice Springs, and Central Australia.
The Tangentyere Youth and Community Safety (YCS) Division brings together a range of programs and services for young people. This includes the Brown Street Youth Service, Child, and Youth outreach Services as well as Night & Youth Patrols and the Looking after the kid’s program providing afterhours programs to young people on Town Camps and out-of-school hours services. The YCS Division is increasingly working in an integrated fashion, ensuring staff and programs work together to provide holistic services for young people to achieve positive outcomes in education, safety, and wellbeing. This means that all staff, including Youth Workers are working across program to provide client and placed-based focused services that are flexible and responsive to needs.
With services running seven days per week, and during school holidays, the YCS Youth Worker will provide a range of safe, fun, active, creative, and culturally appropriate activities and learning experiences for children and young people on Town Camps and across our other service areas. The YCS Youth Worker will facilitate, support, and evaluate these activities. Programs will be community-led, age appropriate (6-18 years) and gender specific when appropriate, with a strong focus on mentoring and support for young people to encourage school attendance, and support their personal, cultural, and vocational growth.
The YCS Youth Workers will directly report to the Team leaders and work alongside other YCS Youth Program teams, and Community Safety teams to plan and deliver larger youth activities and events. Either at Brown Street or around Alice Springs area and positive role modelling for young people. This role operates Tuesday to Saturday, after hours until 9:30pm during the week, and on Saturday’s hours vary.
Responsibilities
• Lead, deliver and evaluate age & gender appropriate programs and community-led youth family and community development initiatives (6-18 years old)
• Promotion of youth and community safety, education, health, and wellbeing.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements and YCS policies and procedures.
• Assist with achieving quality management objectives across the organisation.
• Assist with achieving safeguarding objectives across the organisation.
• Assist with achieving compliance objectives across the organisation.
• Other reasonable duties as required.
Qualifications and Selection Criteria
Required
• Qualification or experience in Sport and Recreation, Youth Work, Education, Social Work, Community Development, or relevant area.
• Previous experience in working with youth at risk – preferably with Aboriginal people and communities.
• Good communication skills and ability to develop rapport and support with young people, family members and key stakeholders (internal and external)
• Current NT Drivers Licence, NT Working with Children (Ochre) Card, satisfactory Police Check, and proof of full (3) vaccination against COVID-19.
Desired
• Current First Aid Certificate, or ability and willingness to attain.
• An understanding of Aboriginal culture as well as a broad range of contemporary issues affecting Central Australian Aboriginal people.