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

The purpose of the Psychologist/Social Worker role is to write behaviour support plans for children and young people. In addition giving priority to the safety and well-being through providing (or arranging for the provision of) high quality psychological advice and therapeutic support consistent with the NSW Government Permanency Support program (for which see www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/permanency-support-program).

This is a 12 month maximum term contract, location flexible across NSW. Travel within a 2 hour radius may be required.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake child-focused assessment of children/young people to inform best care
• Write individualised Behaviour Support Plans
• 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
• Building strong relationships with team members and lead or support reflective practice
• 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
• Provide an environment free of abuse, harm and exploitation for people we support

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in Psychology, Social Work or similar and current registration or eligibility for register with a professional body
• Current NSW Drivers Licence
• Experience in writing individualised behaviour support plans
• Experience in working with children / young people in out of home care who have experienced trauma
• Demonstrated experience in working effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and to work autonomously in implementing therapeutic plans for multiple clients simultaneously
• Demonstrated experience in implementing evidence-informed practice

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).

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 Erin Bye at [email protected] using the subject line: Psychologist / Social Worker 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 (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA)