• Work for one of Australia's largest Social Purpose organisations
• Generous Salary Packaging Options available
• parental leave cover until June 2022, full time position
• Max Term Full Time - Adelaide Metro

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

Lead and inspire a team with our values always front and centre of your actions. Modelling and practicing therapeutic intervention strategies, roster with a focus on good workforce planning and provide team supervision.

You will be required to work across several residential settings to support your teams and work in collaboration with a wide range of community stakeholders to develop and implement care plans built around each child / young person. Most importantly to ensure that we are creating a safe and culturally appropriate and healing environment for children and young people.

About You

• Friendly, passionate, and committed to working to positively impact the lives of children and young people.
• Your heart and mind are committed to our reconciliation journey with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
• A respectful communicator who motivates and empowers the team to have a positive workplace culture.
• Able to build, secure and respectful relationships with children and young people.
• Relatable, balanced with knowing when to keep professional boundaries.

This is a full- time max term role with working days of Monday to Friday. You will participate in an on-call roster.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with the development and implementation of the Departmental Case Plan (where applicable) and develop and implement the LWB Case/Care plan that drives day-to-day service delivery.
• Coordinate the intake, transition, or exit of children and young people in residential care.  
• Demonstrate strong leadership in mange, support and provide reflective supervision to a team of residential workers.
• Undertake appropriate rostering of residential workers.
• Support staff to apply the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention system (TCI).
• Ensure databases are up to date with all client information.

 Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Services, Social Work, Psychology or similar.
• Experience working with children and young people who have experienced trauma and disadvantage.
• Experience in the co-ordination of 24-hour residential services for vulnerable people.
• Demonstrated experience in managing and leading a team in relevant industry.
• Demonstrated capacity to manage crises and critical issues and deal with complex and challenging situations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including strong interpersonal skills, use of Microsoft Office packages. 
• Current First Aid and CPR Certificates
• Current Child Safe Environment Certificate (or willingness to obtain)
• Current Unrestricted Australian Drivers Licence.

This position will be required to undergo probity checks including criminal record checks, working with children check and NDIS Worker Check/DHS Disability Services Employment clearance and Psychological Assessment for employment in a children's residential facility.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + excellent salary sacrifice benefits
• Access to a Tool of Trade vehicle
• Rostered Day Off per month, laptop, and mobile phone
• Professional development, supervision, and mentoring
• Therapeutic Crisis Intervention training
• Cultural Awareness training  

How to Apply

Click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact [email protected], using the subject line: House Manager - Adelaide Metro 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. If you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview.