Youth Mentor
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- Full time 76 hours per fortnight located in Esperance.
- Salary $37.35 p/hr super regional allowance of $1.01 p/hr
- Salary packaging benefits
HOPE has been a community service in Western Australia for over a century providing much needed support to people affected by alcohol and other mental illhealth youth justice issues and socioeconomic disadvantage.
We have an exciting opportunity for aYouth Mentorto join the headspace team! The position is full time workingMonday to Friday.
About the Opportunity:
The Youth Mentor is based at headspace Esperance and is a peer position which provides engagement to young people from a range of backgrounds with particular attention to young men. This role will incorporate the incumbents lived experience to raise awareness to promote help seeking and early intervention for physical health social and emotional wellbeing alcohol and other drug use and vocational and educational support and facilitate access to headspace services through practical means such as transport.
The Youth Mentor assists in the increase of community awareness mental health through psychoeducation on issues among Aboriginal young people and their family and friends and assists to deliver health promotion activities projects and community events to engage identified target populations.
Requirements of the Role:
- Raise awareness and engagement of headspace Esperance through events groups and individual mentoring support to young people via inreach outreach and centrebased activities.
- Advise on the development implementation and evaluation of a culturally and contextually appropriate Community Awareness Plan in which young people are the primary audience.
- Support the planning development and delivery of mental health literacy education sessions for young people parents families and friends sector and community.
- Work with the Clinical Team to ensure that health promotion messages and activities relating to Aboriginal youth mental health are consistent evidencebased and speak to community.
- Participate in relevant community and centrebased events and activities such as headspace training activities community events promotional days/ weeks being Youth Week Mental Health Week Pride headspace Day R U OK Day Pride and Reconciliation Week and other activities within the Community Plan and on an ad hoc basis.
About you:
- Demonstrates experience working with and engaging young people with mental health alcohol and other drug and other social issues.
- Demonstrates experience coordinating and facilitating youth programs events or activities within a community setting.
- Experience in the development of positive working relationships with stakeholders
- Ability to problem solve and work creatively with young people.
- Demonstrates ability to work effectively in a team.
- Works to develop additional knowledge and skills.
- Uses various styles of communication to ensure that information being delivered is tailored to the audience.
- Ensures that communication is factual accurate and presented in a clear and concise manner.
- Conversant with relevant community based mental health terminology.
- Demonstrates an understanding of organisational policies and processes and implements them appropriately.
- Demonstrated understanding of the challenges and experiences of young people from diverse backgrounds including young people who are culturally and linguistically diverse and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
- Broad knowledge of the range of services available to young people in the local government health education employment and youth sectors
- Competence regarding information technology software packages and willingness to be trained and implement the headspace data collection tool.
Desirable Criteria:
- Experience in the Not for Profit and/or public health sector
- Experience in a Youth Organisation coordinating programs education sessions and youth engagement and/or participation
Appointments will be subject to Australian residency/visa satisfactory National Police check (within 3 months) Working With Children card Current C or A class drivers license First Aid Certificate and suitable work referee.
Our Culture:
Hope strives to provide a safe workplace and promotes progressive policies that prioritise the health safety and unique needs of our team. Hopes ambition is to be an employer of choice by supporting staff to grow learn innovate and achieve their potential. We invest in developing our people to sustain the workforce built on growing our own.
Find out more aboutHopeon our website.
If you need support to submit your application please email>
Your benefits:
Knowing you are making a real difference in your community and being in a team that celebrates your successes and supports you during challenges.
Notforprofit salary packaging reducing your tax (details viaAccessPay).
Discounts with a major health insurance provider.
We offer employees and their family members access to a confidential and professional counselling service.
What to expect next:
We vow to respond to every candidate that applies for a role at Hope/headspace.
If your application is shortlisted you will receive a phone call to discuss your skill further and may be invited to attend an interview either online or in person at our local office/Hub.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are strongly encouraged to apply
HOPE acknowledges and welcomes diversity in all its forms amongst staff and clients including culture language race ethnicity age disability sexual orientation gender identity intersex variations religion and socioeconomic and relationship status.
To apply online please click on the appropriate link below. For any enquiries around the role please email us at quoting the job title and the region.Employment Type
Full-Time
