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Safe House Carer

Level: 1.1 - 3.1

Salary: $28.69 - $37.35 per hour (plus casual loading for casual staff)

Hours/Employment Status: Casual & Permanent Part Time positions available.

The Tangentyere Safe House (Ndarndarinjika Safe Houses) provides short term crisis accommodation for Aboriginal children between the ages of 0-12 years old, including respite care. Working from a child centred approach the aim of the program is to ensure that young people are supported therapeutically through the safe provision of a physically, emotionally, and culturally appropriate family environment. The program recognises continued connection to family and culture as integral to a child’s identity and has cultural safety as a fundamental principle of its service provision.  

This position is responsible for the day-to-day support for Aboriginal children in our care, the primary focus of this role is to ensure the children are supported through a physically, emotionally, and culturally safe family environment.  Safe House Carers work on a roster system within a home care setting and are required to attend to all aspects of the house whilst on duty with a primary focus on the care and supervision of all children residing in our houses.

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.

This position involves out of hours work including evenings and weekends.

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Closing date: Ongoing

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Youth & Community Safety Support Worker

*this is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander identified position*

Level: 2.1

Salary: $41.77 per hour including casual loading

Hours/Employment Status: Casual

The Tangentyere Youth and Community Safety (YCS) Division brings together a range of programs and services for young people. This includes the Brown Street and Child &Youth outreach Services. As well as our Night and Youth Patrol Service, including Looking After the Kids case management service.  The YCS Division is increasingly working in an integrated fashion, ensuring staff and programs work together to provide holistic services for young people to achieve positive outcomes in education, safety, and wellbeing. 

With services running seven days per week, and during school holidays, the YCS Support Worker will support activities across all these program areas. Including assistance with safe, fun, active, creative, and culturally appropriate activities and learning experiences for children and young people on at 3 Brown Street. Providing support to our YCS Night Patrol as a driver or support person. Or supporting our Youth Outreach Service to conduct activities at Town Camps without a place-based Youth Service.

The Youth Support Worker will have an excellent knowledge of the Town Camp community and families and be a part of the broader Town Camp communities.  

The Youth Support Worker will work alongside a youth worker or patroller in delivering the program and activities.

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Closing date: Ongoing

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Patroller

*this is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander identified position*

Level: 2.1

Salary: $65,340 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status: Casual to Permanent Part Time

The Tangentyere Youth and Community Safety (YCS) Division brings together a range of programs and services for young people. This includes the Brown Street Youth Service, the Youth Development Service providing afterhours programs to young people on Town Camps and out-of-school hours services.  The YCS Division is increasingly working in an integrated fashion, ensuring staff and programs work together to provide holistic services for young people to achieve positive outcomes in education, safety, and wellbeing.  This means that all staff, including Patrollers, are working across program siloes to provide client and placed-based focused services that are flexible and responsive to needs.  

With our Patrol service running seven days per week, the Patroller will drive a patrols vehicle alongside a support worker. They will provide safe and culturally appropriate transport through public areas of Alice Springs and Town Camps to both adults and children. 

The Patroller will also provide early intervention, education and support to Aboriginal people and the wider community in a way that respects culture and human rights.  With guidance from a Senior Patroller, they will provide referral and relevant information about support services to passengers. And will 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 hours of work are 6.30pm to 2am, Monday to Sunday. Flexibility around rostered days and times will be provided to the successful permanent candidate.

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Closing date: ongoing

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Youth Worker

Level: 3.1

Salary: $46.68 per hour including casual loading

Hours/Employment Status: Casual

The Tangentyere Youth and Community Safety (YCS) Division brings together a range of programs and services for young people. This includes the Brown Street Youth Service, Child, and Youth outreach Services as well as Night & Youth Patrols and the Looking after the kid's program providing afterhours programs to young people on Town Camps and out-of-school hours services.  The YCS Division is increasingly working in an integrated fashion, ensuring staff and programs work together to provide holistic services for young people to achieve positive outcomes in education, safety, and wellbeing.  This means that all staff, including Youth Workers are working across program to provide client and placed-based focused services that are flexible and responsive to needs. 

With services running seven days per week, and during school holidays, the YCS Youth Worker will provide a range of safe, fun, active, creative, and culturally appropriate activities and learning experiences for children and young people on Town Camps and across our other service areas. The YCS Youth Worker will facilitate, support, and evaluate these activities. Programs will be community-led, age appropriate (6-18 years) and gender specific when appropriate, with a strong focus on mentoring and support for young people to encourage school attendance, and support their personal, cultural, and vocational growth.

The YCS Youth Workers will directly report to the Team leaders and work alongside other YCS Youth Program teams, and Community Safety teams to plan and deliver larger youth activities and events. Either at Brown Street or around Alice Springs area and positive role modelling for young people. This role operates Tuesday to Saturday, after hours until 9:30pm during the week, and on Saturday’s hours vary. 

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Closing date: 12/03/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Senior Patroller - Aboriginal Identified

*this is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander identified position*

Level: 4.1

Salary: $84,236 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status: Permanent Full Time or Permanent Part Time

The Tangentyere Youth and Community Safety (YCS) Division brings together a range of programs and services for young people. This includes the Brown Street Youth Service, Child and youth outreach services and Night & Youth Patrol services.  The YCS Division is increasingly working in an integrated fashion, ensuring staff and programs work together to provide holistic services for young people to achieve positive outcomes in education, safety, and wellbeing.  This means that all staff, including Senior Patroller, are working across program siloes to provide client and placed-based focused services that are flexible and responsive to needs.  

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, 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 passengers 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 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.

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Closing date: 19/03/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Community Support Worker - Tangentyere Aged & Community Services

Level: 1.1 - 3.1

Salary: $56,098 to $73,030 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status: Permanent Full Time

Tangentyere Aged & Community Services (TACS) is part of the Family Safety & Social Services Division, which aims to improve the quality of life of Central Australian Aboriginal people and the wider community through providing innovative, responsive, and culturally safe services.

TACS provide CHSP, HCP & NDIS home care & centre-based services to an extremely diverse and vulnerable cohort of people, where health is more than often secondary to other social determinants.  With more than 7 languages spoken and over 100 clients, TACS continues to uphold quality service provision and maintains its strong ties with members of the Alice Springs and wider community.

This position will be responsible for providing direct personal care and support to frail, aged people, and people living with disability in the community.

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Closing date: 02/04/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Administration Support Officer ICMS

Level: 2.1

Salary: $65,340 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status: Permanent Full Time 

Tangentyere Indigenous Case Management Service (ICMS) is part of the Family Safety & Social Services Division, which aims to improve the quality of life of Central Australian Aboriginal people and the wider community through providing innovative, responsive, and culturally appropriate services.  

This position will provide face-to-face services to clients wishing to access Tangentyere ID card services, Emergency Relief, Return to Country and referrals to services offered by Tangentyere Council as well as referrals to external providers.

The successful candidate will have experience in providing customer service, have a calm and friendly approach, have a background in administration, be able to juggle a variety of tasks, answer telephone, email and customer queries and be willing to learn. Local community members are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Closing date: 19/03/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Receptionist & Administration Support Officer ICMS

Level: 3.1

Salary: $73,030 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status: Permanent Full Time 

Tangentyere Reception & Indigenous Case Management Service (ICMS) is part of the Family Safety & Social Services Division, which aims to improve the quality of life of Central Australian Aboriginal people and the wider community through providing innovative, responsive, and culturally appropriate services.  

This role is required to contribute to the provision of quality services by providing administrative support for Tangentyere Council’s main reception.

This role is responsible for ensuring the effective and efficient running of the reception area whilst providing administration support to the Human Resource Department as required.

This position also undertakes Tangentyere Card service activities and assists the ICMS program clients and service providers who access Emergency Relief (ER), Proof of Identification (ID), Return to Country, and referral services.

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Closing date: 19/03/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

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CAYLUS Youth Worker

Level: 5.1

Salary: $96,368 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status: Full Time 1 year Contract.

CAYLUS services remote communities across Central Australia to reduce the supply, demand and harm caused by volatile substance use.

This position will be responsible for traveling to and residing in remote communities for extended periods of time. The Youth Worker will engage with community stakeholders to develop and implement strategies that prevent and reduce the impact of substance misuse on young people and families and deliver youth programs and activities outside of school hours and on weekends. 

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Closing date: 02/04/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

CAYLUS Program Support Officer -Aboriginal Identified

*this is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander identified position*

Level: 4.1

Salary: $84,236 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status: Permanent Full Time or Permanent Part Time

The Central Australian Youth Link-Up Service (CAYLUS) is a division of Tangentyere Council Aboriginal Corporation (TCAC) - a community controlled Public Benevolent Institution delivering human services and social enterprise activities for the benefit of Aboriginal people from Alice Springs Town Camps, Urban Alice Springs, and Central Australia.

CAYLUS started as a petrol sniffing prevention project in November 2002, in response to widespread issues in the region at that time. While CAYLUS remains focussed on preventing sniffing, we also work to reduce the impact of other substance misuse by reducing their supply, harm, and demand across Central Australia through the delivery of youth services, training, remote rehabilitation outreach work, and various other targeted initiatives.

The Program Support Officer will welcome clients and stakeholders to our office and create a warm, friendly, organised, and tidy office environment. 

The Program Support Officer will provide efficient administration and program support for CAYLUS Managers and staff, raising purchase orders, organising meetings, catering, agendas, and meeting minutes, and following up on action items. 

The Program Support Officer will liaise directly with the CAYLUS Management team through regular meetings, and act as an initial point of contact for external agencies and stakeholders.

The Program Support Officer position is a flexible role which can be offered on a part time or full-time basis, with opportunities for professional development, training, or study, based on the interests of the suitable applicant.

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Closing date: 19/03/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Child & Family Practitioner

Level: 5.1

Salary: $96,368 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status: Permanent Full Time 

The Tangentyere Council Family Support Services provides support for the whole family with a focus on the best interests and outcomes for children. The program provides culturally safe and trauma-informed case management and tailored support to Aboriginal families in Alice Springs with children aged 0-18. We work according to the needs of each individual family, using an approach that is goal oriented, child centred, and family focussed. 

The service aims to support families to create and foster safe and nurturing environments for children, strengthen parenting capacity and increase resilience, and promote positive outcomes for children and families. Through assertive outreach and intensive case management, the Child and Family Practitioner will support families by addressing immediate needs, coordinating holistic supports, and strengthening existing supports and assist caregivers to increase their capacity to address safety concerns and keep children and young people safe from harm.

The Child & Family Practitioner will be a highly motivated individual with excellent communication skills who is committed to working with vulnerable families and children. Additionally, they will engage with stakeholders and community members to promote the program, ensuring it is culturally safe and accepted by individuals, families, and communities across the Alice Springs region.

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Closing date: 12/03/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Men's Behaviour Change Group Facilitator

Level: 5.1

Salary: $96,368 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status: Permanent Full Time 

The Tangentyere Men’s Family Violence Prevention Program or “Marra’ka Mbarintja” (Talking straight to make change) aims to work towards the safety, well-being, human rights and dignity of women, children and others affected by men’s use of violence. It incorporates Element Four of the Northern Territory’s Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Reduction Framework 2018-2028 Safe, Respected and Free from Violence and is one of the five key components of the Northern Territory Government ten-year plan to reduce the impact of domestic, family, and sexual violence in our community. 

The MBCP offers a groupwork model and space for men who use violence and abuse in their intimate relationships. Our work with men is part of an integrated response, including contact with partners and ex-partners through Women’s Safety Services of Central Australia (WoSSCA).

MBCPs have three central aims: 

1. Increase the safety of women and
       children.

2. Monitor risk through an integrated
       response.

3. Support men to make change and stop
       using violence.

The successful candidate will be highly motivated with excellent communication skills and is committed to reducing violence against women and children in Central Australia. They will build relationships with men individually and in a group setting to support them in making nonviolent choices. They will engage with stakeholders as part of an integrated response MBCP to keep men in view and continually monitor risk.

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Closing date: 26/03/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Men's Behaviour Change Group Facilitator - Female Identified

*this is a Female identified position*

Level: 5.1

Salary: $96,368 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status: Permanent Full Time 

The Tangentyere Men’s Family Violence Prevention Program or “Marra’ka Mbarintja” (Talking straight to make change) aims to work towards the safety, well-being, human rights and dignity of women, children and others affected by men’s use of violence. It incorporates Element Four of the Northern Territory’s Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Reduction Framework 2018-2028 Safe, Respected and Free from Violence and is one of the five key components of the Northern Territory Government ten-year plan to reduce the impact of domestic, family, and sexual violence in our community. 

The MBCP offers a groupwork model and space for men who use violence and abuse in their intimate relationships. Our work with men is part of an integrated response, including contact with partners and ex-partners through Women’s Safety Services of Central Australia (WoSSCA).

MBCPs have three central aims: 

1. Increase the safety of women and children

2. Monitor risk through an integrated
       response

3. Support men to make change and stop
       using violence

The successful candidate will be highly motivated with excellent communication skills and is committed to reducing violence against women and children in Central Australia. They will build relationships with men individually and in a group setting to support them in making nonviolent choices. They will engage with stakeholders as part of an integrated response MBCP to keep men in view and continually monitor risk.

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Closing date: 26/03/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Case Manager and Group Facilitator DVSCS - Male Identified

*this is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander identified position*

Level: 5.1

Salary: $96,368 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status: Permanent Full Time 

The Domestic Violence Specialist Children’s Service (DVSCS) is one component of Tangentyere’s Family Violence Prevention Programs (FVPP). The FVPP is an integrated program with components designed to meet the needs of men, women, young people, and children who have been affected by issues of domestic and family violence, as well as primary prevention work, and also consists of a Men’s Behaviour Change Program, the Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group, and the Young Women’s Family Safety Group.

The DVSCS provides specialist early intervention support for Aboriginal young people, aged between 12 and 18, who have been impacted by domestic and family violence.

• By creating age-appropriate and gender-based family and domestic violence critical interventions and youth informed services, the DVSCS is designed to:
• Support young people’s understanding of domestic and family violence through education, and to provide frameworks for relationships that are respectful, safe, and free from violence.
• Increase the safety, health and wellbeing of young people, their families, and the broader community.
• Contribute to intergenerational change by shifting harmful attitudes and beliefs around gender, masculinity, and violence in relationships.

The development and delivery of the Domestic and Family Violence Specialist Children’s Services will complement the work already achieved by the Alice Springs Response to Domestic and Family Violence and will build on strong interagency relationships to ensure the best outcomes for children and young people impacted by violence, as well as their families and community. 

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Closing date: 26/03/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

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Carpenter

Level: 6.1

Salary: $105,284 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status: Permanent Full Time 

Tangentyere Constructions, a subsidiary of Tangentyere Council, is a professional building contractor. Tangentyere Constructions promotes self-determination and community control in the construction industry.

Tangentyere Constructions delivers property management, new construction work, and trade repairs and maintenance works to Alice Springs Town Camps and remote communities & outstations. Carpenters will be allocated by the General Manager to work on projects under the supervision of the Property Management Team Leader or one of the Constructions Supervisors.

This Carpenter will work under the supervision of the construction supervisors, and undertake various construction related activities including but not limited to tasks such as constructing and upgrading municipal residences and buildings, maintenance services including carrying out necessary minor general repairs.

This position is also expected to work autonomously or as part of a team, demonstrate sound judgement and decision making. The Carpenter must be a responsible person and have the capacity to instruct and supervise unskilled labourers in basic construction related tasks.

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Closing date: 19/03/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.