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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.

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: 13/06/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Early Childhood Education Educator

Level: 5.1

Salary: $96,368 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status: Permanent Part Time

Tangentyere Early Childhood Education (ECE) is an innovative and unique program that supports Aboriginal children and youth to achieve positive outcomes in education, safety, and wellbeing in the Alice Springs Greater Region.

The Early Childhood Educator will be part of a small, dynamic team tasked with improving access to Early Childhood Education (ECE) for children in the 0-5-year-old age group living on Town Camps. The program supports both children and their parents and carers to receive a positive start to their child’s education journey. 

The ECE Educator position will work closely with the ECE Coordinator alongside community to help develop and deliver playgroups to support Aboriginal families and children in Town Camp communities to feel safe and connected to ECE and understand the importance of early childhood development. The ECE Educator will work with other Tangentyere programs and approved external agencies to ensure highly integrated practice and increased parental participation in the crucial area of school readiness.

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Closing date: 13/06/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

DFV Strategic Partnerships Practitioner 

Level: 6.1

Salary: $105,284 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status: Contract position 30 Jun 2026  

The Family Safety & Social Services (FS&SS) Division includes a variety of programs including Tangentyere Family Violence Prevention Program (FVPP) under which sits the Men’s Behaviour Change Program (MBCP), Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group (TWFSG), Strong Families Program, and Domestic Violence Specialist Children’s Service (DVSCS).

This role will work within a co-responder model with key stakeholders who include DFV victim survivor practioners, child protection practioners and police providing time-limited follow up to the person committing DFV after the initial occurrence when it is safe, appropriate, and/or more effective to do so. This may be by telephone, in person, at the police station, or at the DFV specialist service. This includes emergency support, risk assessment, information, safety planning for immediate needs, and connecting people committing DFV to supports to foster accountability and behaviour change and address immediate needs (including suitability assessment and referral to the Tangentyere men’s Behaviour Change program, specialist services, housing, mental health, and alcohol and other drug services etc.). This role will also represent Tangentyere Council on the Family Safety Framework. This includes attending the Family Safety Meeting every fortnight with the purpose of sharing information and collaborating on risk management actions to improve the safety of victim survivors identified as being at serious risk of DFSV related harm or death. 

The successful candidate will take a leadership role to build strategic partnerships in the context of Men’s Behaviour Change. This role is committed to building relationships with external stakeholders/partners and collaborating with other services. Secondary consultations will be undertaken with internal and external stakeholders to build capacity around men who use violence. 

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Closing date: 13/06/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Intake and Assessment Worker Men’s Behaviour Change Program 

Level: 5.1

Salary: $96,368 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status:Permanent Full Time 

The Family Safety & Social Services (FS&SS) Division includes a variety of programs including Tangentyere Family Violence Prevention Program (FVPP) under which sits the Men’s Behaviour Change Program (MBCP), Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group (TWFSG), Strong Families Program, and Domestic Violence Specialist Children’s Service (DVSCS).

The successful candidate will have completed tertiary studies in Social Work, Welfare Studies, Psychology or a related discipline with experience in assessment and intake and the delivery of Men’s Behaviour Change work.

The successful candidate will be a highly motivated individual with excellent communication skills who is committed to reducing violence against women and children in Central Australia and will engage with stakeholders to promote the MBCP and to ensure the program is culturally safe and accepted by individuals, families, and communities across the Alice Springs region.

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 carries a focus on the intake and assessment processes that support a person’s journey into the Men’s Behaviour Change Program from initial referral through to group work and program completion.  The successful applicant will have the skills to undertake the tasks while also being supported to grow their knowledge and skills to work across all aspects of the program.         

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Closing date: 10/06/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Youth Trainee

Level: 1.1

Salary: $35.86 per hour including casual loading

Hours/Employment Status: Casual 

The Youth Trainee is an entry level position identified for Aboriginal young people, aged 16 – 25 years. The position’s purpose is to reduce barriers to young people’s access to employment.  The role will provide ad hoc casual employment that will enable a young person to undertake paid employment within a supervised and supportive environment.  The intention is to support young people develop their work ready skills, foster a sense of personal leadership, and create opportunities for young people to contribute to Tangentyere Council.

Youth Trainees will be engaged on a casual basis to undertake various activities and roles.  This may include running discrete youth activities such as facilitating discussion groups and gathering formal consultation information; leading youth activities such as sports or artistic endeavours; contributing to organisational planning and program development.  Youth Trainees may be responsible for running a broad variety of youth activities, under supervision, and may be involved in planning and creating new activities for young people.

Where appropriate, Youth Trainees may be required to participate in team meetings and youth governance meetings sharing their thoughts and experiences of youth issues and activities with the broad youth services team. 

Youth Trainees may be expected to work unsupervised for short periods of time, running an activity or discrete space within a broader youth program, but they will not be left at a site alone and will not be the responsible nominated person for an activity.  Where a Youth Trainee is employed as part of a youth activity, they will not form part of required staff to child ratios.

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.

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Closing date: 13/06/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

CDP Employment Consultant

Level: 5.1

Salary: $96,368 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status:  Contract position 31 Oct 2025

Tangentyere Employment Services (TES) delivers the Community Development Programme (CDP) for Alice Springs Town Campers, outstations in the region and Amoonguna. 

The Employment Consultant works as a guide, coach, and advocate, working with job seekers to develop a unique Job Plans that develops a pathway for the job seeker to identify and overcome vocational and non-vocational barriers in order to enter sustainable employment. Employment and participation activities may include community participation such as cultural activities, work experience, training, mentoring and activities that support economic development of the community. 

The TES service model is designed to maximise job seekers’ choice and control of their pathway to employment. The Employment Consultant supports the job seeker to navigate their pathway, drawing on the range of resources and connections in our wrap around model and using strengths-based assessment approach. 

The Employment Consultant’s role is to provide employment assistance as defined by the Funding Agreement 2019 – 2022. This includes using an integrated case management system to service a caseload of jobseekers by:

• Assessing the job seekers’ strengths as well as their barriers to employment, 

• Identifying appropriate employment and participation activities to prepare for employment, 

• Monitoring participation and progress in activities, and 

• Helping commence and retain employment, education, or training activities. 

The Employment Consultant focuses on the job seeker’s abilities and aspirations and works to directly connect each person with the right providers, employers, and services available in the community to meet their identified needs. The Employment Consultant will work with a caseload of CDP job seekers.

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.

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Closing date: 20/06/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements.

Social Work Practice Lead 

Tangentyere Aged & Community Services (TACS)

Level: 6.1

Salary: $105,284 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status:  Permanent Full Time 

Tangentyere Aged & Community Services (TACS) is part of the Community 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 lead the Social Work program within TACS through specialist social support for older clients by providing high quality outreach, risk assessment and advocacy, the implementation of strategies and practices as part of high-quality intensive casework and case management, to ensure care for older clients are person-centred and meet best practice and quality standards.

This position will provide culturally safe early intervention strategies for clients, carers and their families to ensure their emotional, psychological, and physical health and wellbeing is maintained.

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Closing date: 20/06/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements

Social Worker 

Tangentyere Aged & Community Services (TACS)

Level: 5.1

Salary: $96,368 per annum/pro rata

Hours/Employment Status:  Permanent Full Time 

Tangentyere Aged & Community Services (TACS) is part of the Community 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 also develop awareness campaigns and social support activities that will be co-designed with TACS clients and the leadership group at Tangentyere Council aiming to spread culturally safe messages to community members about elder abuse, neglect, and family violence.  

This position will also support those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, to access appropriate and sustainable housing as well as community care, residential aged care, and other support services, specifically targeted at avoiding homelessness or reducing the impact of homelessness while providing early intervention strategies for clients to ensure their emotional, psychological, and physical health and wellbeing is maintained.

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Closing date: 20/06/2025

A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see below for How to Apply and application requirements