Kylie Taylor
Other Social Assistance Services
Kylie Taylor
We are looking for an empathetic self-motivated person that has an interest in youth development. You will need strong interpersonal skills be fun, flexible, patient, trustworthy, and animal lover and love seeing people achieve no matter the goal.
Purpose of the role.
To spend 3-4 hours a day from 2.30– 6 pm with a young teen with a disability, with the potential for one overnight per week.
The idea is to get to know them as individuals and build and relationship with them. To take an interest in what they like to do and work out ways that support this in a fun and up lifting way. Ideally you will help the young person to get food, make school lunch for the next day, support them into their pjs, play games with them, watch music vids and read to them.
You can plan activities for them or simply be there to have some fun but also work in with the family for any need that arises. There will be an hour before the young person gets home from school for you to help with any household task that needs to be done like: bring in washing, fold washing, unpack/pack the dishwasher, light fire, prep dinner and general tidy.
It would be great if you would be available during the school holidays and some weekends to be more available during the whole day and planning activities and things of interest for them both. The objective is to support the young person to start to help develop new life skills and interest. Have lots of fun doing things that bring joy and laughter to them.
What they enjoy: Animals, swimming, music, Ipad, you tube, arts and crafts.
Must have full licence and be prepared to undergo a police check.