Our purpose is to make skills, education and employment accessible to every person, so they can create their own world of unbounded possibilities.
About The BUSY School…
The BUSY School is part of The BUSY Group, a not-for-profit organisation presenting over 45 years as a community partner providing employment services, vocational education and training, apprenticeships, mentoring, NDIS, disability employment support, and allied health services.
The BUSY School is an independent Special Assistance School with 9 campuses across Cairns, Brisbane, and Gold Coast/Coolangatta, providing an alternative program for Year 11 and 12 students who are disengaged or at risk of disengaging from education.
Each campus provides a supportive and safe learning environment for young people by providing them with an education program that includes vocational education and training (VET), work experience and opportunities for school-based apprenticeships and traineeships. Our team support the students to gain employability and transferability skills to increases their sense of wellbeing, resilience, belonging, academic achievement, career exploration and employment outcomes.
Our teams’ focus is centred at re-engaging our students to learn, remain eligible for a Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) and gain employment or further training outcomes upon student’s graduation from Year 12.
About the position...
Work Readiness Officers will assist in the development and delivery of a work readiness program to students, BUSY Schools to Work. The primary purpose of the Work Readiness Officer is to support students to gain practical work readiness skills to be successful in work experience, work placement and prospective school-based apprenticeship or traineeship opportunities.
The role is proactive in planning and delivering work readiness programs and using a case management approach to understanding individual student vocational training and education pathways and seeking industry-based opportunities.
BUSY Benefits:
- Competitive, above award salary; Circa $66k + 12.5% super
- Paid Parental Leave program
- 13 weeks long service leave
- 12.5% superannuation
- NFP Salary Packaging (up to $15,900 per year) PLUS meal and entertainment card!
- Training and Professional development commitment
- Career progression and internal transfer opportunities
- Employee Assistance Program
About you...
- Previous experience in a similar role of developing and delivering work readiness and employability skills within industry, youth support and/or education sectors.
- A demonstrated ability to successfully engage young people in relevant and dynamic learning
- Proven ability to develop cooperative working relationships and work as part of a team with broad range of internal and external stakeholders, in industry, vocational education and training and the school community to ensure outcomes for students are achieved.
- If you would like to be part of a new fresh innovative environment, in a school that has a fundamental emphasis on what our young people can achieve for life, and above all, your values align with ours, then we highly recommend you apply now.
Next steps...
This role will actively commence recruitment from the date of advertisement. The closing date of this ad is dependent on the appointment of the role.
The BUSY Group is an organisation that prioritises the safeguarding of children and all vulnerable people by actively adopting strategies that embed a culture of zero tolerance for abuse of any kind. The appointment of successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory employment screening including criminal history and relevant working with children checks.
The BUSY Group is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from First Nations People, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disabilities.
