Youth Caseworker - Doorways for Youth

About the role:

This is a full-time contract opportunity until December 2025 located in Wyong. Starting base annual salary of $79,823 to $87,169 negotiable based on experience, plus super, plus access to generous salary packaging options.

Our Central Coast team will be recruiting across our programs in the coming months so we will also be establishing a talent pool for our future employment opportunities at Uniting.

About Uniting:

When you’re part of Uniting NSW.ACT, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who are really making a difference to the world around them.

We contribute to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people through all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

Uniting leaders and employees work together to create a culture that is safe, inclusive and person-centred. We bring this to life every day through our values: compassionate, respectful, imaginative and bold.

Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to all Elders – past, present, and emerging – and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work.

Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.

About the opportunity:

As a Youth Caseworker with our Doorways program, you’ll work closely with young people aged 18–24 who are navigating housing instability and complex life challenges. You’ll help them build pathways to safe housing, gain independence, and reconnect with education and employment.

Every day, you’ll be helping young people rewrite their stories — from surviving to thriving.

• Provide person-centered, strengths-based casework that wraps around the needs of each young person.
• Support access to private rentals via the Youth Rent Choice Subsidy.
• Collaborate with housing providers, schools, TAFEs, employers and community services providers.
• Advocate fiercely for the rights and wellbeing of young people at every turn.
• Help run youth-focused community events like Youth Week and NAIDOC celebrations.
• Walk beside young people through the highs and lows, celebrating every small win along the way.

Your Qualifications & Experience

You're not just looking for a job — you're seeking purpose. You have the heart to believe in young people, the mindset to meet them where they’re at, and the drive to help them grow.

• A relevant qualification or solid experience in youth work, social work or a related field.
• A deep understanding of the challenges young people face — especially around homelessness.
• A warm, non-judgmental approach and the ability to build trust quickly.
• Skills in casework, advocacy, mediation, group facilitation, and crisis support.
• A current driver’s licence and WWCC – and the willingness to go the extra mile (sometimes literally) for a young person in need.

Benefits and culture

Working to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice brings its own rewards, but there’s more.

• Welcoming you exactly as you are
• Starting base annual salary $79,823 to $87,169 negotiable based on experience plus super.
• Access to generous salary packaging options as well as access to Uniting’s URewards retail partner program.
• 5 ex-gratia days per year as per EA and additional leave purchasing options.
• Wellbeing programs and access to fitness passport
• Career development opportunities such as training, education.
• Amazing workplace culture

Should you have any questions, please contact Belinda Condon from Uniting's Talent Acquisition Team at bcondon@uniting.org

Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks, which include National Police Checks, Working with Children Checks and Reference Checks.  
 

Closing date: 11:55pm, Thursday 1^st May 2025