Support Worker Fixed Term and Relief Employment Register

About our Team

Children, Youth, and Families (CYF) provide integrated programs that support all children, young people, and their families in Tasmania. The Child Safety Service (CSS) is integral to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children and young people who are at risk or in crisis in Tasmania.

We provide support to children, young persons, and families, with the aim to enable children to grow up in a safe and supportive environment, including providing transport and supervision of client access visits.

We are looking for:

In addition to meeting the essential requirements, to succeed long term in this role you should possess the following skills and attributes:

• Genuine motivation and passion to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in Child Safety.
• Strong emotional intelligence, resilience, non-judgemental, empathy, and perseverance.
• Good written, verbal, and interpersonal skills, including ability to manage conflicts, de-escalate and problem solve
• Ability to work within an environment subject to work pressures and changes
• Ability to operate within and adhere to legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Align to our workplace values; Kind, Connected, Committed, Respectful

DECYP will from time to time require the services of employees for specified fixed-term and relief basis in a number of skill areas and disciplines. Such appointments fill a valuable role in complementing the existing permanent workforce. The register is not a vacancy and inclusion on the register does not guarantee employment. 

Please refer to the Statement of Duties for ALL the selection cr…