House Manager (Intensive Therapeutic Care). Permanent Full Time – Clarence Valley

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 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. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.  

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

Joining our Intensive Therapeutic Care Team, you will oversee the day-to-day operations of an Intensive Therapeutic Care Home. This is a permanent full-time role with flexible hours across 7 days a week.

This is a hands-on role with most of your time spent on site, in the home leading and mentoring a team of therapeutic support workers in providing trauma informed, therapeutic care and support to young people with complex trauma backgrounds.

You will strive to enhance the lives of young people, building resiliency skills and setting and achieving life goals through purposeful programming and ensuring a therapeutic, trauma informed approach within daily structure.

Key Responsibilities

As a House Manager in the LWB Intensive Therapeutic Care program you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your skills in:

• Leading and coaching a team of Therapeutic Support Workers.
• Providing trauma informed care and support to young people in care.
• Managing the day to day activities of the young people to ensure they have purposeful planning occurring that supports their transition to independence
• Managing the daily hygiene, resource allocation and budget for the household.
• Preparing the rosters for the Therapeutic Support Workers
• Engaging with the ITC Leadership team to work toward delivering quality trauma informed service to young people in out of care

Skills, Experience & Requirements

• BachelorÂ’s degree in Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health or similar
• Candidates with a relevant diploma working towards a relevant bachelor level qualification with strong experience in managing people within the human services sector may be considered.
• Previous management/leadership experience within the human services sector
• An understanding of complex trauma experiences and its effects on children and young people in out of home care, including an understanding of pain-based behaviours.
• Experience in the co-ordination of a 24-hour residential services for vulnerable people
• Commitment to complete training in the core modules of our CARE Framework for Practice, Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) and GROWTH Leadership within the probationary period
• Current First Aid Certificate
• An unrestricted NSW driverÂ’s licence

Please note: Mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations may be required for this position, in accordance with relevant Public Health Orders across all States and Territories. In these circumstances, evidence of vaccination will be required prior to an offer of employment.

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

Benefits

• Permanent, full-time role in a leading social purpose organisation
• Work life balance with flexible hours across 7 days a week
• Hourly rate from SCHADS Level 4.1
• Loading on any afternoon and weekend shifts worked
• 5 weeks annual leave per year 
• Up to $15,900 of your annual salary tax free through salary packaging benefits
• Access to discounts and benefits at selected retail outlets such as department stores, attractions, travel, cinemas, restaurants and MORE
• Participate in GROWTH Leadership training to support your continued development

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 Kestra Caller at 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.

Applications close at midnight on Sunday the 19th of December, 2021 (AEST)

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)