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At YFS, we make a real difference to the lives of people living in Logan and surrounding areas.
We have a real commitment to seeing people thrive, including our staff. We encourage staff to bring their entire selves to work, because we know that a happy workplace thrives.
In our recent Employee Opinion Survey our staff said the best things about working at YFS are the challenging work/job satisfaction, fellow employees, teamwork, and pay and benefits.
We’re serious about your professional development. And we empower each other to make decisions and try new ways of working.
Depending on your role, we support flexible work arrangements.
We also offer great employment benefits including above-average pay rates, generous salary packaging (exempt from Fringe Benefits Tax), portable long service leave, counselling support and free parking.
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Current available positions:
Family Resource Practitioner – Young Families
Family Therapist – Functional Family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW)
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Current available positions:
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Family Resource Practitioner - Young Families
Are you an experienced Family Practitioner looking for a licence to be creative and innovative? Are you passionate about working with children and young people?
We have a great opportunity to do early intervention work with young parents and their children and influence multi-generational change.
Be part of an exciting integration initiative where you will collaborate with housing, education and employment and peer work specialists to give families the tools they need to thrive.
You’ll be part of a friendly, fun, and supportive team. Driven by best practice and a shared vision to support young families!
YFS is a diverse organisation and a great place to work.
About the job
Role location: Slacks Creek
Role type: Full-time (5days per week), Maximum term – 6months with a possible extension.
Pay range: $97,689 a year per annum based on experience, with salary packaging exempt from Fringe Benefits Tax available.
Role description (download PDF)
In this role you will:
- Build strong relationships with young families, supporting them to articulate their goals and ambitions, developing a tailored response to young families and “do what it takes” to support each family member to thrive.
- Work collaboratively with the team to build young parents’ capacity, confidence and wellbeing and improve children’s development.
- Work flexible from our office to out in the community and in family’s homes.
- You will be supported to engage in professional development, including the Safe and Together Model to support work in safe and healthy relationships with young parents.
About you
Aside from meeting the key capabilities outlined in the related role description available here, you’ll be a great fit if:
- You are passionate and knowledgeable about backing young parents to thrive, and well-equipped with case management, coaching or support work experience working with vulnerable families.
- You have a strength-based and trauma informed approach in your framework of practice, with a strong family and child focus.
- Have knowledge of adverse childhood experiences (ACES), child development, and impacts of trauma.
- Have prior experience working with young people and children.
- Have knowledge working with parents who are experiencing domestic and family violence, poor mental health and substance misuse.
Interested?
Read Advice for Job Applicants and check out our Organisational Chart.
Send your resume and a one-page covering letter outlining what you will bring to the job to yfsjobs@yfs.org.au.
Contact Amy Blair on 07 3826 1500 if you want to talk about the role.
Closing date: Thursday 3rd July 2025 at 12pm.
Interviews are scheduled for Wednesday 9th July 2025.
People from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, and people who identify as part of the LGBTIQA+ community, are encouraged to apply.
Family Therapist
Are you keen to be part of a passionate and professional team working together using evidence-based models to change lives?
YFS have an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinical therapist looking to take the next step in their career. Come join our team as a Family Practitioner and keep families together and prevent children entering Out of Home Care.
You will be part of an experienced team of passionate therapists who are implementing Queensland’s Functional Family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW) program. The program is facilitated by experienced and suitably qualified therapists who help identify strengths and challenges within the family behaviours. You’ll be working with the families and children in their homes helping them to understand their strengths and teaching them new skills to develop effective strategies for change within the family system.
As well as having clinical experience, the person for this role will need to be flexible, engaging and have a high level of emotional intelligence along with good communication skills and the ability to rapidly build relationships and rapport with families, children and young people.
There’s no doubt this is a challenging role: it will also be an opportunity to develop your clinical skills with lots of support, clinical reflection and training, working with a supportive team.
If you’re looking for a role where you can make a real difference in people’s lives, we’d love to hear from you.
About the job
Role location: Jimboomba – our Jimboomba office is only 40 minutes from Logan and Springfield and a one-hour drive from the Gold Coast
Role type: Permanent Full-time
Pay range: $106,730 – $111,448 a year based on experience, with salary packaging exempt from Fringe Benefits Tax available
Role description (download PDF)
In this role you will:
- require a willingness to undertake some work outside of usual business hours, including up to 3 evenings a week as required
- have previous experience working with families, in an outreach capacity
- need knowledge and experience working with families with complex needs, including trauma, mental health, AOD, and family violence
- provide weekly structured therapy sessions in line with the FFT-CW phased model
- benefit from intensive training in the FFT-CW model, regular ongoing clinical support and a flexible work environment that may include working from home options after completion of probation.
About you
Aside from meeting the key capabilities outlined in the related role description available here, ideally you will bring the following: a client focus, emotional intelligence, resilience, flexibility, inclusiveness, a collaborative spirit, creativity, innovation and cultural awareness.
Interested?
Read Advice for Job Applicants and check out our Organisational Chart.
Send your resume and a one-page covering letter outlining what you will bring to the job to yfsjobs@yfs.org.au.
Contact Vicki Olman or Di Townsend on 07 3826 1500 if you want to talk about the role.
Closing date: Wednesday 2nd July 2025, 12pm
Interviews are scheduled for Tuesday 8th July 2025.
People from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, and people who identify as part of the LGBTIQA+ community, are encouraged to apply.