• Permanent Full Time

About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 7,000 employees working in more than 440 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.   

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

Setting up a new Intensive Therapeutic Care, Significant Disability (ITC SD) home in the Lismore area, you will lead and mentor a team of youth workers in providing purposeful support to young people in residential care with high and complex needs. You will strive to enhance the lives of young people in the residential setting, incorporating a therapeutic, trauma informed approach within the daily structure and purposeful programming.

The House Manager will have strong leadership and people management experience, previous experience working with people who have significant trauma, disability and/or complex behaviours. The successful candidate will be involved in sourcing and setting up a new residential home and so, must be flexible in working across the Lismore region with regular travel required to Grafton and Ballina in order to support the wider team.

Key Responsibilities

• Mange, support and provide reflective supervision to a team of Therapeutic Support Workers.
• Be actively present in the home environment, and provide role modelling, coaching and mentoring for staff in applying the principles of the CARE model to all interactions with children and young people and families
• Model and support staff to apply the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) system to prevent, de-escalate and respond to crisis incidents involving children and young people.
• Build professional, trusting relationships with children and young people through visible interest and active engagement.
• Oversee and participate in the planning and implementation of purposeful activities and routines which support and increase the life skills of the children and young people in our care.
• Manage the Intensive Therapeutic Care Home in accordance with the CARE model, legislation, relevant standards, LWB policies and procedures and funding body requirements.
• Provide an environment free of abuse, harm and exploitation for people we support

Skills & Experience

• Relevant Bachelor’s Degree
• Demonstrated experience in managing and leading a team
• Experience in the co-ordination of a 24-hour residential services for vulnerable people.
• Experience working with children and young people who have experienced trauma and disadvantage.
• Commitment to complete Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) Training and be assessed as TCI competent within the probationary period.
• Current First Aid Certificate.
• A current driver’s licence.

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).

Benefits

• Monthly rostered days off
• Receive up to $15,900 of your salary tax free through salary packaging benefits
• Permanent, full time role in one of Australia’s largest social purpose organisations

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Kestra Caller at [email protected] using the subject line: House Manager ITC - Significant Disability - Lismore enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA)