• 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

Permanent full time opportunity within our Family Based Care team where you will develop and implement high quality case plans for children and young people. Based at Maitland, you will be joining a supportive team with a diverse range of experience.

Key Responsibilities 

• Develop and implement high quality case plans or individual plans for children and young people in Life Without Barriers’s care
• Develop and maintain functional and supportive relationships with children and young people in out of home care as well as their families in order to promote positive outcomes
• Support and monitor placements
• Meet with clients and family members to gather input for case plans
• Participate in on call roster as required
• Coordinate and support the care team involved in the delivery of the case plan or individual plan
• Ensure compliance with all internal policy and procedure, statutory and contractual requirements in relation to management of service delivery
• Manage communication with key stakeholders, internally and externally

Skills & Experience

• Degree in Social Work, Social Science, Psychology or Human Services or equivalent
• Demonstrated understanding of current casework practice for children and young people
• Experience in working with children and young people in out of home care, foster carers and families or groups
• Ability to develop quality case plans or individual plans that are consistent with appropriate policy and procedures
• Demonstrated capacity to work autonomously in carrying out agreed case plans, or individual plans, for multiple clients simultaneously
• High level communication, influencing, liaison, negotiation and mediation skills
• Current driver’s licence

Benefits:

• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest Social Purpose organisations
• Supportive team with a range of experience
• Tool of trade vehicle

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