Vocational Coach

Location

Lutwyche

Position Description

About the Role – do you want to…

Join our tri-state pilot program as a Vocational Coach, providing coaching services and support to Carers looking to gain new skills and qualifications and re-enter the workforce.

Use your coaching experience to conduct Vocational Needs Assessments, develop individualised Vocational Plans, and conduct coaching sessions with carers to support goal achievement and overcoming barriers to further education and paid and volunteer employment. You will also provide soft-skill training sessions to carers on vocational-readiness topics.

Are you…

Highly skilled in interview, assessment, and general motivational coaching methodologies?

A team player, with a demonstrated ability to show initiative and professionally and ethically represent Carers Queensland?

Able to demonstrate efficient and effective strategies to positively assist carers in overcoming severe and/or multiple non-vocational barriers to employment?

Do you have …

Coaching qualification or similar coaching experience?

Demonstrated experience in the Employment Services or similar industry?

Demonstrated experience applying a person-centred approach in case management working with disadvantaged job seekers experiencing multiple barriers, with a focus on returning them to the workforce?

Demonstrated motivational, coaching skills and high-level problem-solving skills?

Demonstrated ability to create and maintain professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support service continuity and client outcomes?

What’s in it for you?

Opportunity to work for a peak industry body in Queensland

Attractive Remuneration Package of CSW4.1 – $74,433.53 per annum plus super

Excellent Not-for-Profit Tax Benefits available

Monthly accrued days off available

A flexible and supportive work environment where your contribution is valued

Laptop and phone supplied

Work from Home 50% status currently adopted

How to Apply

Please review our Position Description and Key Selection Criteria attached to the job add when you hit Apply

Submit your resume and your covering letter which addresses the TOP 5 – Key Selection Criteria you have reviewed.

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including Working with Persons with Disability Check and Working with Children Check.

Applications close on 19 April 2022

About Carers Queensland

For more than 30 years, we have been working to advocate for equal rights, opportunities, and enhanced outcomes for families.

Join us as we launch a new program and initiative of Carers Queensland, funded by the Department of Social Services, and piloted over the next two and a half years.

The program will deliver an end-to-end vocational coaching model to support client-centred outcomes and measurable social and economic benefits.

Carers Queensland is committed to maintaining a diverse workforce that reflects the diverse needs of the people we support. Carers Queensland is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from people with a disability, and from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and the LGBTIQ community. Carers Queensland encourages applicants to advise this information in their cover letter, so that we can meet the needs of each applicant. Carers Queensland actively seeks to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients.