Disability Residential Youth Worker. Part Time and Casual – Central Coast

About the Organisation
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.   
 
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
Join our growing Intensive Therapeutic Care home in the Central Coast on Part Time or Casual basis. You will be supporting for young people with trauma background and disability in a residential setting.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide daily care and supervision to children and young people
• Develop and support individual care plans, including medication, hygiene, transportation and meal requirements
• Encourage community engagement to support and increase life skill of the children and young people
• Support the involvement of family
• Apply therapeutic care approach and therapeutic crisis intervention system (TCI)
• Lifting/manual handling
• Mandatory reporting

 
Skills & Experience

• Diploma in Community Services, Youth Work or similar OR willingness to obtain 
• Experience in a residential care setting
• Experience in working with children and young people with disability and complex behaviours
• Knowledge of trauma and its effects on the development and behaviours of children and young people
• A current First Aid Certificate
• A current unrestricted NSW Driver Licence
• Availability to work across a 24/7 fortnightly rotating roster (including sleepover & active nights)
• Applicant who is able to connect and support with M?ori cultural background is encouraged to apply

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

• Be part of Australia's largest social purpose organisation
• Hourly rate from $31.75 per hour + Superannuation OR Casual Loadings 
• Salary packaging benefits, up to $15,900 tax free allowance
• Ongoing training and support
• National career progression opportunities 

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

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.

Do not miss this amazing opportunity, put in your application today. Applications will be review and processed prior to the ad closing.

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