The St Vincent de Paul Society NSW is a leading provider of community support services, committed to supporting people experiencing disadvantage and working towards a more just and compassionate society.
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💰 SCHCADS Award: Hourly rates starting from $50.61
🕐 Casual role: A mixture of shifts offering great work-life flexibility
💙 Rewarding role: Work directly with young people, helping them feel safe, supported and empowered to build brighter futures.
💸 Generous tax-free salary packaging: Boost your take-home pay with not-for-profit benefits.
📈 Career development: Genuine opportunities to grow through learning, training and internal career pathways.
As a Support Worker at Bowral Youth Refuge, you will play a pivotal role in assisting young people who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness. You’ll be directly involved in helping these young people regain stability, build resilience, and pave the way to independence. You’ll work closely with a dedicated team of Case Workers, supporting the development and implementation of individual care plans to help
Build positive, respectful and professional relationships with young people while maintaining clear boundaries.
Provide trauma-informed, strengths-based and person-centred support.
Support young people with complex needs, including experiences of trauma, mental health challenges and substance use.
Help young people develop independent living and life skills through activities, programs and everyday interactions.
Work alongside Case Workers to support young people in achieving their goals.
Provide practical assistance, advocacy and information to help young people navigate their circumstances.
Assist with the intake and assessment of new clients.
Create and maintain a safe, welcoming residential environment.
Complete accurate case notes and client documentation.
Respond confidently to incidents, risks and emergency situations.
Support the day-to-day operation of the refuge, including activities and programs.
Experience working with children and young people, ideally in homelessness, youth services or residential care.
Knowledge of child protection, mandatory reporting and safeguarding.
A strong understanding of trauma-informed and strengths-based practice.
Excellent communication and documentation skills.
The ability to remain calm and make sound decisions in challenging situations.
A compassionate, respectful and non-judgemental approach.
Drivers Licence & Current First Aid Certificate
This role operates across a rotating roster, including day, evening and sleepover shifts. Flexibility and availability to work evening and sleepover shifts is highly regarded.
If this sounds like you , don’t wait - apply now, we are interviewing applications as we receive them.
Any queries please reach out to careers.nsw@vinnies.org.au
We Offer:
St Vincent de Paul Society (NSW) welcomes people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to engaging a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, candidates of any or no religious beliefs and applicants of all ages. If you are a candidate with disability please let us know if you require any support to participate in the application and recruitment process.
The Society is committed to being a Child Safe organisation, further information can be found in the Society’s commitment to Safeguarding Children & Young People Prior to an offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete the pre-employment checks including a Police check & Working with Children check. A health / medical assessment may be required for some roles.
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.
