House Manager

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.   

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff, clients, and their families to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better.  If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

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 House Manager will oversee the day-to-day operations of the current residential services in the Mt Evelyn region in Melbourne. This is a hands-on role with most of your time spent on site in the home with allocated administrative days.

You will mentor and lead a team of youth workers in providing purposeful 2:1 support to young people in residential care with high and complex behavioural needs. You will bring your leadership skills to provide a secure base for our young people within the home, liaising with culturally appropriate services, and providing opportunities for the young people to connect with the culture in which they identify within.

You will strive to enhance the lives of young people in the residential setting, incorporating a therapeutic, trauma informed approach within the daily structure and purposeful programming.

This is a permanent role with working days of Monday to Friday. There would be rostered on call cover required (This is shared amongst House Managers).

We kindly ask that only Males apply for these positions. This is to reflect the needs of the specific client group.

 *The Employer considers that being Male is a genuine occupational qualification for this position under Section 27 (2), (c), (e) and (g) of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984. 

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Life Without Barriers considers gender a genuine occupational qualification for this position under Section 27 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 - TAS.

26 Exception—genuine occupational requirements (1) An employer may limit the offering of employment to people of one sex if it is a genuine occupational requirement of the employment that the employees be people of that sex.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, support and provide reflective supervision and team meetings to a team of residential workers, and lead staff to work as a team in the best interests of young people in care
• Ensure the home is a place that is emotionally and physically safe to foster growth and resilience
• Assist with the development and implementation of the Departmental Case Plan (where applicable) 
• Support staff to apply the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention system (TCI) to prevent, de-escalate and respond to crisis incidents 
• Undertake rostering of residential workers 

Skills & Experience

• Experience in leading and supervising a team 
• Experience working with complex behaviours 
• Minimum Certificate IV in Child, Youth and Family Intervention or similar 
• Experience in the co-ordination and management of 24-hour residential services for vulnerable people
• Current Unrestricted Australian Drivers Licence
• First Aid/ CPR & NDIS Worker Screening Check (or willingness to obtain if successful)

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

Benefits

• Permanent, Full Time Position with ongoing support and training
• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
• Attractive remuneration package with excellent tax benefits and monthly RDO

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 recruitment@lwb.org.au

Applications close on October 28th 2021. 

In accordance with the Victorian Public Health Order, mandatory vaccination may be required for this position. Where applicable, evidence will be requested at probity check stage.