🌟 Join IDSS as a Youth Worker – Child Safety Supports
Empower Young People. Create Safe Futures. Grow with Us.
Are you passionate about supporting children and young people to feel safe, heard, and empowered? At IDSS (Integrated Disability Support Services), we are seeking compassionate and dedicated Youth Workers to join our growing team supporting Child Safety participants across our programs.
If you’re looking for a meaningful role where you can make a lasting difference in the lives of vulnerable young people, this is your opportunity.
✨ Positions Available Across Various Locations ✨
Residential Youth Support / Sleepovers / Active Overnight:
Join a purpose-driven team supporting children and young people in out-of-home care and Child Safety placements. You’ll help create stable, nurturing, and trauma-informed environments where young people can build confidence, resilience, and independence.
At IDSS, we value compassion, inclusion, and innovation—giving you the opportunity to grow professionally while positively impacting young lives every day.
Community-Based Youth Support:
Through our community support programs, we help young people engage safely with education, community services, cultural connections, employment pathways, and positive social supports.
We work closely with young people to:
• Build life skills, confidence, and independence
• Navigate education, employment, housing, and support services
• Develop healthy routines and social connections
• Access community programs, appointments, and recreational activities
• Strengthen emotional wellbeing and positive coping strategies
What You’ll Do:
• Work as part of a dynamic care team delivering both youth support and disability support services to children and young people within DCC and Child Safety care settings.
• Provide compassionate, trauma-informed care tailored to each young person’s individual needs, development, and wellbeing.
• Support young people who may present with additional and complex support needs, including ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), language disorders, and reactive attachment disorder.
• Support children and young people in daily living activities and routines.
• Assist with personal care needs including meal preparation, maintaining hygiene standards, medication administration, and accurate medication data recording.
• Foster safe, supportive, and empowering relationships while promoting emotional wellbeing and positive behavioral support.
• Support life skill development including budgeting, cooking, personal care, emotional regulation, and socialisation.
• Assist with transport to school, appointments, family contact, community participation, and recreational activities.
• Encourage engagement in education, healthy routines, cultural connections, and community-based programs.
• Utilise a variety of communication supports and tools including audio devices, pictorial communication aids, and PODD (Pragmatic Organisation Dynamic Display) communication books.
• Work collaboratively with qualified therapists and multidisciplinary teams to provide consistent, high-quality, person-centred support.
• Maintain accurate case notes, medication records, and professional communication in line with Child Safety and organisational requirements.
Full training will be provided by qualified therapists to ensure every member of the care team is equipped to deliver safe, effective, and individualised support tailored to the unique needs of each young person.
Who You Are:
• Compassionate, patient, and person-centered in your approach.
• Passionate about supporting vulnerable young people to thrive.
• A reliable team player who works well in dynamic environments.
• Confident using apps, reporting systems, and digital tools.
• Flexible and willing to work a range of shifts including afternoons, sleepovers, weekends, and active nights.
What You Can Look Forward To:
• Be part of a compassionate, passionate, and purpose-driven team.
• Work in a supportive and inclusive environment that values your strengths.
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Competitive pay packages and penalty rates.
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Salary packaging options through Eziway.
Required:
• Blue Card (Working with Children Check)
• NDIS Worker Screening Check (or willingness to obtain)
• Current Driver’s Licence
• First Aid & CPR Certificate (or willingness to obtain)
• Ability to complete mandatory Child Safety and Youth Support training
Preferred (but not essential):
• Cert IV in Child, Youth & Family Intervention, Community Services, Youth Work, or equivalent.
• Experience working with Child Safety participants or young people with complex behaviours.
• Experience in trauma-informed care, mental health, or disability support.
👉 Ready to Make an Impact?
Apply now or learn more at www.integratedsupport.org.au
📞 Call us on 1300 4377 669 for more information.
Let’s create opportunity, empower young people, and thrive—together.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
