Job Summary
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 1st May 2020
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.
The purpose of the Mentoring and Personalised Support Services (MAPPS Worker) is to engage and support children and their families in northern Tasmania, across areas of child safety, mental health and education, and developing individually tailored goals and action plans aimed at addressing identified needs. The MAPSS Worker proactively works with families to build capacity, identify strengths, and develop and maintain a positive parent - child relationship.
We are inviting you to send us your expression of interest and your resume, tell us why you think you could be successful as a MAPSS Worker. We will be contacting suitable candidates as opportunities for employment arise.
Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and hold Tasmanian Working With Vulnerable People Registration.
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).