About the Organisation

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 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. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.  

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

As a Home Manager for our Intensive Therapeutic Care – Significant Disability (ITC SD) team in Grafton, you'll play a key role in supporting Children & Young People in our care to develop independent living skills, engagement in education and remain positively connected to their team of Care Workers, Families, and broader community connections. 

The Children & Young People we care for have may have a diagnosed disability and or complex medical care needs, alongside backgrounds of trauma, abuse and neglect.

To be successful in this role, you'll need to be a hand-on leader who can provide mentorship and guidance to a team of therapeutic care workers, ensuring the delivery of individualised trauma informed support to Children & Young people in LWB's care.  

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the daily operations of the ITC home and participate in the planning and implementation of therapeutic care plans for Children & Young People
• Be actively present in the home environment, providing role modelling, support and supervision to therapeutic care workers
• Model and support staff in applying the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) system
• Manage 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 the Children & Young people we support

Skills & Experience

• Diploma in Community Services, Youth Work, Disability or similar
• Strong understanding and experience supporting people with disabilities, complex health needs and those whom exhibit pain based behaviours of concern
• Demonstrated management experience within an Out of Home Care or Intensive Therapeutic Care setting. 
• Ability to provide supervision and support to a team of Therapeutic Care Workers, to embed the delivery of therapeutic models of support to Children & Young People.
• Ability and willingness to work a variety of shifts within a 24/7 roster and participate in an after hours on-call roster as required
• Current First Aid (HLTAID003 OR HLTAID011) &CPR (HLTAID001 OR HLTAID009) Certificate/s
• Current Australian Drivers Licence

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check.

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or hold a valid medical exemption certificate.  You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.

Benefits

• Do work that matters at one of Australia’s largest social purpose organisations
• Supportive team environment with opportunities to grow
• Fantastic salary packaging benefits through Maxxia - up to $15,900 per year, tax free!

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 Kristy Crowe at [email protected] using the subject line: ITC Home Manager - Significant Disabilities - Grafton enquiry via EthicalJobs.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview.

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)