• Full Time
• Hours of work 35 hours per week inclusive of shift work and weekends.
• Based in Inner West
• Remuneration: Social, Community, Home Care & Disability Award 2010 (Level 4) + full salary packaging options available, shift loadings will be paid according to the award

ABOUT LILLIAN’S:

The Lillian Howell Project Inc is a medium-long term therapeutic accommodation service housing up to eight girls and young women aged 13-17 years who are homeless and have experienced complex trauma. Lillian’s has been operating as a relational-based service in Sydney’s Inner West since 1988, providing a medium term supported housing option in the youth accommodation sector.

Lillian’s aim is to provide young women who have experienced complex trauma with a stable environment offering care that is reparative and empowering, and that builds the capacity of the young women through modelling reliable and consistent behaviours and case management. Over an extended period of time, the competency and confidence of each young woman builds, and her capacity to make autonomous and independent decisions about her own future grows with that confidence. The caseworker supports vulnerable girls and young women through the transition from dependence to independence through individualised case management. For more information about Lillian’s please visit our website: www.lillians.org.au.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Lillian’s is seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Caseworker. The position will be based in Sydney's Inner West. The position includes flexible work hours, including shift work and weekends. Following a successful probationary period, this will be an ongoing full-time position. As the successful applicant you will be committed to upholding Lillian’s core values of safety, consistency and reliability, social and community awareness and involvement, building resilience and respect.

Being female is a genuine occupational requirement of this position (s31 of the Anti-Discrimination Act).

SELECTION CRITERIA:

• Knowledge and/or experience working with complex trauma
• Demonstrated experience, or demonstrated ability to work in a therapeutic frame with girls and young women who are experiencing homelessness or who are at imminent risk of homelessness and who have experienced complex trauma and may present with challenging behaviour
• Sound knowledge and skills for assessment to identify suicide/self harm risks and strategies to manage same.
• Clinical response skills to youth based crisis situations including practical and psychiatric emergencies.
• Ability to stay calm and rational in volatile situations.
• Ability to work with girls and young women, and knowledge of the special needs of homeless and at risk girls and young women.
• A detailed working understanding of Child Protection and Specialist Homelessness Services
• Minimum two years demonstrated experience working within a case management framework providing wraparound support to young people with complex trauma histories and multiple support needs
• Commitment to and demonstrated experience of working within a client-centred, trauma informed, strengths based and culturally safe framework
• Ability to work autonomously and within a small team
• Able to be self-motivated and show initiative
• Skills in working with people from a range of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work flexible hours, including shift work and weekends
• A tertiary qualification in Social Work, or a minimum of Diploma level qualifications in Youth or Welfare, with a focus on case management
• A NSW Driver's Licence
• A NSW Working with Children Check and National Criminal History Check

A full Position Description is attached.