Senior Youth Worker

• A full-time ongoing role at our new Geelong Campus
• Make a positive impact in the lives of young people with visible impact
• Join our supportive and collaborative multidisciplinary hubs

About the Opportunity

Senior Youth Workers provide daily wellbeing support to students to enhance their capacity to engage in learning both on campus and via outreach. This also includes being responsible for making referrals and engaging with key stakeholders including care teams and families. 

In addition, Senior Youth Workers form part of the Hornbrook Wellbeing Leadership team and will undertake a range of functions requiring a high level of knowledge and skills, within wellbeing, to achieve results in line with the organisations strategic and annual implementation plans.

Senior Youth Workers provide onsite leadership and expert advice to Youth Workers, Educators and Education Support staff around enhancing students Learning for Wellbeing and Wellbeing for Learning.

What a day in the role looks like: 

• Create and advocate for students’ wellbeing and learning by collaborating within a multidisciplinary hub to co-design and maintain a safe, respectful and engaging learning environment that prioritises both wellbeing for learning and learning for wellbeing, across both face-to-face and virtual contexts.

• Engage professionally with students, colleagues, families, carers and community by providing flexible and holistic evidence-based support both on campus and through the facilitation of outreach. Provide leadership by facilitating regular formal supervision and reflective practice to identified sta…