Summary:
Tangentyere Council deliver a range of Youth, Families &
Community Safety (YFCS) services across Town Camps and Alice Springs,
supporting children, young people, families, and communities through the
delivery of daytime and after-hours services focused on recreation, diversion,
out-of-home care, community safety and family support programs. The YFCS
Division is increasingly working in an integrated fashion, ensuring staff and
programs work together to provide holistic services for young people and community
to achieve positive outcomes in education, safety, and wellbeing.
With our Patrol service running seven days per week, the
Senior Patroller will report and work closely with the Night Patrol Team leader
in leading, supporting, and managing patrols vehicles alongside patrollers.
They will provide safe and culturally appropriate transport through public
areas of Alice Springs and Town Camps to both adults and children as
contracted. The Senior Patroller will be responsible for leading Shifts, where
the team leader is not present, shifts, incident response, risk management and
representing the service at inter-agency meetings.
The Senior Patroller is an Aboriginal Identified role that
will provide early intervention, education and support to Aboriginal people and
the wider community in a way that respects culture and human rights. Providing referral and relevant information
about support services to Clients to encourage responsible alcohol use, school,
and healthcare attendance as well as support and empower Aboriginal people to
make a choice that creates a safer environment within the Alice Springs
community.
The Senior Patroller will work closely with the Youth,
Families and Community Safety Senior Leadership team to achieve the objectives
of the program to improve levels of community safety, promote culturally
appropriate conflict and dispute resolution in the community and offer services
in line with community safety priority, using non-coercive intervention
strategies to respond flexibly to communities safety needs and priorities.
The hours of work are 6.30pm to 3am, Monday to Sunday.
Flexibility around rostered days and times will be provided to the successful
permanent candidate.
As part of your role, you will be
working with children, people with a disability and people who are vulnerable.
It is your obligation to always ensure their safety and report any concerns in
line with our duty of care obligations. We have zero tolerance when it comes to
abuse of any kind and will take disciplinary action, including and up to
termination of employment, should we determine that abuse has taken place or
there has been a failure to report any suspected or alleged abuse.
Responsibilities
- ·Patrolling public areas of Alice Springs and
town camps in the evening and night.
- ·Provide early intervention, education, and
support to Aboriginal people.
- · Lead, support,
coach and mentor Tangentyere Patrollers and Support Workers including shift
management, delegation and reporting.
- ·Maintain accurate encounter and service activity
records.
- ·Build and maintain relationships with our
partners (e.g. Police and service providers) with the aim to create a safer
living situation within the community.
- ·Assist with achieving quality management
objectives across the organisation.
- ·Assist with achieving safeguarding objectives
across the organisation.
- ·Assist with achieving compliance objectives
across the organisation.
- ·Other reasonable duties as required.
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Qualifications and Selection Criteria
Required
- · Identify as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait
Islander person.
- ·Experience working with Aboriginal people in an
outreach capacity and/or patrol experience.
- ·Understanding of issues facing Aboriginal
visitors to Alice Springs and town camps residents.
- ·Understanding of problems associated with
alcohol and violence.
- ·Demonstrated ability to manage conflicts and
incidents.
- ·Demonstrated ability to lead, coach and support
staff on shifts.
- ·Basic literacy and numeracy skills and the
ability to record encounters.
- ·Current NT Drivers Licence, NT Working with
Children (Ochre) Card and a satisfactory current Police Check.
Desired
- ·Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Certified.
- ·First Aid Certificate
- ·Working knowledge of Aboriginal Language/s.
