• 12 Month Contract

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 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

The role of a Psychologist or Social Worker is referred to as a Therapeutic Permanency Specialist at Life Without Barriers. Based out of Hurstville, this role gives priority to the safety and well-being of children and young people by providing (or arranging for the provision of) high quality therapeutic advice and support for children and young people within our Family Based Care program consistent with the NSW Government Permanency Support program. This is a 12 month contract.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake child focused assessment of children and young people.
• Provide evidence informed advice and recommendations on understanding and minimising negative impacts of trauma, promoting healthy age appropriate development and building and strengthening skills and competency.
• Provide evidence informed training and support for carers and staff regarding therapeutic support.
• Lead implementation, maintenance and monitoring of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) and Therapeutic Crisis Intervention – Families (TCIF).
• Review and monitor staff and carer competency in TCI and TCIF and provide training, refreshers, coaching and mentoring as appropriate.
• Review and monitor staff and carer competency in Children and Residential Experiences (CARE) principles and practice.

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in Psychology, Social Work or similar and current registration or eligibility for registration with the professional body or Psychology board of Australia to practice as a psychologist.
• Completed, currently completing or agreement to undertake a unit of learning consistent with nationally recognised competency CHCDIS006.
• Ability to develop and promote positive person-centred behaviour supports.
• Current Driver’s Licence.
• Experience in working with children and young people in out of home care who have experienced trauma.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing evidence informed practice.
• Clinical industry background preferred.

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

• Training, ongoing support and career development opportunities
• Regular individual and group supervision
• Fantastic leadership and a supportive team
• Tool of trade vehicle & monthly roster days off

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply Now’ and follow the prompts.

For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact [email protected] using the subject line: Therapeutic Permanency Specialist - Family Based Care - Hurstville 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.