• 12 Month Full Time Contract - Quakers Hill

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 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. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.  

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

Based in Quakers Hill and working as part of our Intensive Therapeutic Care leadership team on a 12 Month Full Time Contract you will have strong leadership and people management experience and will be responsible for providing supervision and rostering to staff in order to establish a safe homelike environment for the children and young people in care.

You will have previous experience working with children and young people who have complex trauma and be passionate about addressing the impacts of abuse, neglect, complex trauma, and separation from families on children and young people in care.

Key Responsibilities

• Be actively present in the home environment, providing role modelling to staff
• Oversee and participate in the planning and implementation of therapeutic care plans
• Mange, support and provide reflective supervision to your team
• Model and support staff in applying the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) system
• Manage home in accordance with the CARE model, legislation, relevant standards, LWB policies and procedures and funding body requirements
• Provide an environment free of abuse, harm and exploitation for people we support

Skills, Experience & Requirements

• A relevant bachelor’s degree
• Candidates with a relevant diploma who are working towards a bachelor’s degree will be considered.
• Demonstrated experience in managing and leading a team
• Experience working with children and young people who have experienced trauma and disadvantage
• Experience in the co-ordination of a 24-hour residential services for vulnerable people
• Commitment to complete Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) Training and be assessed as TCI competent within the probationary period
• Current First Aid Certificate
• An unrestricted NSW driver’s licence

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

Benefits

• Up to $15,900 of your annual salary tax free through salary packaging benefits
• Monthly rostered days off
• Ongoing training and support
• Join a leading social purpose organisation with career opportunities nationally

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 Kestra Caller at [email protected], using the subject line: House Manager (Intensive Therapeutic Care) - Quakers Hill enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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).