About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit 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.   

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.

We currently have a permanent full-time Psychologist role available in our Unley office.

About the role

You will be a part of our Clinical Services team based in Unley and provide high quality clinical support to LWB clients.

This exciting additional position would suit someone with sound therapeutic skills who enjoys working with children and adults. Clients that seek services from our psychologists are

• Children in therapeutic foster care who present with challenging behavioural and emotional issues due to their trauma experiences and require therapeutic support with emotional regulation, social skills, and trauma processing.
• Children in residential care with disability or trauma background who needs support around transitioning to independence or into foster care placement.
• Children with disabilities including Intellectual Disability and Autism who receive funding through the NDIS, in particular; positive behaviour support planning & specialist behavioural intervention support, and therapeutic support
• Children in need of the cognitive and educational assessments
• Adults with disabilities including psycho-social disability who receive NDIS funding and require therapeutic support and general counselling

The role would also require you to work with foster carers or residential care staff and schools to provide them with psychoeducation and support around behaviour management from a therapeutic parenting framework.

You will have a sound knowledge of child development (including normal development, neurobiology of trauma, attachment difficulties, disability and developmental delays), excellent interpersonal skills and be able to work collaboratively within a care team.  

Skills & Experience 

• Full Registration as a Psychologist in Australia with AHPRA
• Master’s degree in clinical psychology is desirable but not essential
• Demonstrated experience in working with children and/or adult clients who exhibit challenging behaviours.
• Demonstrated experience in administration of a range of cognitive and adaptive behaviour assessment tools.
• Ability to work in partnership with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Effective time management and organisational skills.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and strong verbal and written communication skills, use initiative and think laterally and strategically with well developed problem solving skills.
• Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality.
• Current Driver License

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

• Work within a team passionate about facilitating positive changes for people
• Life Without Barriers is one of Australia's largest not-for-profit organisations operating throughout Australia. 
• Full Salary Packaging providing tax benefits available for living and entertainment expenses
• Ongoing training, support and career opportunities
• Diverse and inclusive organisation

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 [email protected] using the subject line: Psychologist 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.