Sleepover Residential Youth Worker - Wodonga
Junction Support Services
Get Paid to Sleep & Support Young People!
As a Sleepover Residential Youth Worker, you'll be part of a dedicated, trauma-informed team providing overnight care, support and stability for young people in residential care. Through a combination of active and sleepover hours, you'll help create a safe, nurturing environment where young people can develop routines, build life skills and work towards their goals and independence.
During active shifts, you'll support the day-to-day running of the home, including preparing meals, maintaining a clean and welcoming environment, administering and documenting medication, completing household tasks, and ensuring young people's needs are met. You'll also contribute to therapeutic behaviour support, accurate case noting, incident reporting and compliance with DFFH standards and organisational requirements.
This work is rewarding, but it can also be challenging. You'll be supporting young people who have experienced significant trauma and require consistent, therapeutic care. Success in this role requires emotional resilience, the ability to remain calm under pressure, strong co-regulation skills, and a genuine commitment to trauma-informed practice.
What Does a Sleepover Shift Look Like?
Our Sleepover Line offers a combination of active work and sleepover hours, providing the opportunity to make a difference while benefiting from excellent pay and penalties.
Typical Sleepover Shift Structure
- 5:00pm – 11:00pm: Active support shift (awake and working)
- 11:00pm – 7:00am: Sleepover period
- 7:00am – 9:00am: Active support shift (awake and working)
During your active hours, you'll support young people with evening and morning routines, meal preparation, household tasks, medication administration, therapeutic support, and creating a safe, stable home environment. During the sleepover period, you'll remain on-site and receive a sleepover allowance, with additional payments if support is required overnight.
Roster & Hours
- 54.5 hours per fortnight
- 7 sleepover shifts per fortnight
- A mix of weekdays and weekends
- Access to generous weekend penalty rates, night shift loading, and sleepover allowances
Why Join the Sleepover Line?
Get paid while sleeping on shift
Earn 15% extra on active overnight hours (Monday–Friday)
Saturday rates paid at 150%
Sunday rates paid at 200%
Additional payments if you're required to provide support during sleepover hours
Opportunity to earn an extra week of annual leave through weekend work eligibility
Make a meaningful difference in the lives of young people in care
54.5 hours. 7 shifts. Great penalties. Real impact. Join a dedicated team providing overnight support, stability and care to young people when they need it most
What You’ll Need
- Certificate IV in Child, Youth & Family Intervention (or equivalent – see our website for the full list) Please see below link for more information:
- Experience working with young people or strong motivation to learn
- Residential Out-of-Home Care Youth Work experience is highly desirable
- Current Australian Driver’s Licence, Victorian Employee Working with Children Check and First Aid Certificate
- Willingness to undergo a National Police Check (we’ll arrange this for you)
- Commitment to ongoing training and trauma-informed practice
- If you have lived outside of Australia for 12 months or more in the last 10 years, you will need to provide an International Police Check that has been processed in the last 3 months from any of the countries you have lived in.
- Applicants must complete the mandatory upskilling units as required by Department of Families, Fairness and Housing. Continuing employment is dependent on satisfactory evidence provided within 6 months of being engaged in the role.
Why Work With Us?
- Competitive SCHADS Award pay
- Penalty rates for afternoon, night, and sleepover shifts
- Salary packaging to increase your take-home pay (for permanent employees)
- Ongoing learning: free internal training + $500 per year for external development
- Access to professional debriefing and our Employee Assistance Program
- Annual wage increases aligned with Fair Work or CPI
Recruitment Process
Our Recruitment Process Is Structured And Selective
- Shortlisted candidates will attend a group interview
- Successful applicants will progress to an individual interview
- All compliance checks must be completed prior to offer
Successful Candidates Will Complete
- 2 days induction training
- 5 supported shadow shifts before independent work
Junction Support Services is a child-safe organisation and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from First Nations peoples, individuals with disability or lived experience of disability, and people of all cultural backgrounds, gender identities and sexual orientations. We value the unique perspectives and contributions that diversity brings to our workplace and the communities we serve.
