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, Families and Community Safety (YFCS)
Division brings together a range of programs and services for young people.
This includes the Brown Street Youth Service, the Youth Development Service
providing afterhours programs to young people on Town Camps and out-of-school
hours services. The YFCS 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 Senior Youth
Workers are working across programs to provide client and placed-based focused
services that are flexible and responsive to needs.
With services running seven days per week, and duringschool holidays, the Senior Youth Worker will supervise and provide a rangeof safe, fun, active, creative,and culturally appropriate activities and learningexperiences for children and young people on Town Camps and across our
other service areas. The YFCS Youth Worker will lead, support, evaluate and manage 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 Senior Youth Workers will also work alongside
other Town Camps, 3 Brown Street, and Community Safety teams to plan and deliver larger youth
activities and events. Either at Brown Street or around Alice Springs area. This role includes leadership/mentoring other
YFCS youth workers and staff. Providing direct supervision and direction during
shifts. As well as positive role modelling for young people.
The hours of work range
from 12pm to 9.30pm, Monday to Sunday. Flexibility around days and times will
be provided to the successful permanent candidate.
As part of your role, you will be
working with children, people with a disability and people who are vulnerable.
It is your obligation to always ensure their safety and report any concerns in
line with our duty of care obligations. We have zero tolerance when it comes to
abuse of any kind and will take disciplinary action, including and up to
termination of employment, should we determine that abuse has taken place or
there has been a failure to report any suspected or alleged abuse.
Required
Desired
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.
