• Full-Time

Please note: 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.

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, 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 individual need and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role

We are currently recruiting for a Full-Time Senior Residential Support Workers to join our CYF team in. This is a challenging but rewarding opportunity for you to make a change in a Young Person's life.

The purpose of the Senior Residential Support Worker is to provide direct care of children and/or young people, as well as supporting the Manager to provide guidance and support to Residential Support Workers and actively work together in a unified approach to meet the needs of the young person. You will also be responsible for the administrative and reporting requirements for the house.

An incumbent in this role must offer energy, safety, flexibility, and commitment in their work with children and young people through genuine, caring and sensitive engagement.

LWB has a strong evidence-based culture and professional development is a focus with potential training opportunities from Cornwell University in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) and Children and Residential Experiences (CARE).

This position is being offered as permanent full-time based in Armstrong Creek. Due to the nature of the role, you will be required to work a rotating roster. Shift work will include afterhours work, sleepover shifts and weekend work (penalties included). 

Key Responsibilities

• Form and maintain professional, nurturing relationships with children and young people by building trust 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.
• Provide daily care, supervision and transport to children and young people in our care within a therapeutic framework.
• Contribute to the home being a place that is emotionally and physically safe, nurturing, and appropriately engaging and stimulating, to foster growth and resilience.
• Support with internal and external data recording and reporting systems, ensuring all client data is up to date.
• Lead by example and model best practice for staff in applying the principles of CARE and TCI to all interactions with children, young people, and families.
• Plan and actively participate in activities, routines, and transitions to support and increase competencies of the children and young people in our care, considering the child or young person’s developmental needs.
• Participate as an active member of the team, attending and contributing to team meetings, supervision, and reflective practice, to maintain a consistent and responsive trauma-informed service.

Skills & Experience

• Certificate 4 in Community Services, Youth Work or similar
• Completion of the following 4 units: Work effectively in trauma informed care; Provide primary residential care; Facilitate responsible behaviour and Work with children and young people with complex trauma and attachment issues and needs – Advantageous
• A current Senior First Aid and CPR Certification
• A current unrestricted Australian Driver Licence
• Ability to work various shifts (sleepover & active nights) throughout the week
• Prior knowledge and/or experience working with young people
• Prior knowledge and/or experience working with young people with a disability.

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

• Rewarding role with extensive opportunities for professional development
• Competitive hourly rate and access to salary packaging through Maxxia
• Ongoing career opportunities

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: Senior Residential Support Worker - Armstrong Creek enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice. 

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)