Psychologist

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

We are currently seeking a skilled and enthusiastic Psychologist to be a part of our Clinical Services team and to provide high quality clinical support to LWB clients. This team is led by a Clinical Psychologist with over 10 years’ experience in supporting children and families in family-based care and residential care. While predominately metro based, we do have young people and families in regional areas.  

This position is being offered as Permanent Full Time and can be based in Unley. This exciting position would suit someone with sound therapeutic skills who enjoys working with children or adults. The types of clients that seek services from our psychologists include;

• Children in therapeutic foster care who present with challenging behavioural and emotional issues due to their trauma experiences and require therapeutic support with emotional regulation, social skills, and trauma processing.
• Children in residential care with disability or trauma background who needs support around transitioning to independence or into foster care placement.
• Children with disabilities including Intellectual Disability and Autism who receive funding through the NDIS positive behaviour support planning & specialist behavioural intervention support, and therapeutic support
• Children in need of the cognitive and educational assessments

In addition to the direct therapeutic work with children and young people, other opportunities include.

• Support to foster carers around behaviour management from a therapeutic parenting framework.
• Consultation with residential support teams to provide guidance on therapeutic care for young people in a residential setting
• Being part of a supportive and dynamic Child Youth and Family team
• Opportunity to work alongside our Living Arts program to develop creative therapies.

You will have a sound knowledge of child development (including normal development, neurobiology of trauma, attachment difficulties, disability and developmental delays), excellent interpersonal skills and be able to work collaboratively within a care team.  
 
Skills & Experience 

• Masters’ qualifications in Psychology and a full registration as a Psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia is required.
• Demonstrated experience in working with children and/or adult clients who exhibit challenging behaviours.
• Demonstrated experience in administration of a range of cognitive and adaptive behaviour assessment tools.
• Ability to work in partnership with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Effective time management and organisational skills.
• Ability to use initiative and think laterally and strategically as well as well-developed problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality.
• Ability to meet deadlines and Understanding of a commitment to the principles of EEO, Safety, Cultural Diversity and Ethical Practice
• Current Driver License

 
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).

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with a minimum of two (2) doses or hold a valid medical exemption certificate, in accordance with Life Without Barriers Employee COVID-19 Vaccination Policy. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.
 
Benefits

• We are able to provide supervision for clinical endorsement
• Salary Packaging providing tax benefits available for living and entertainment expenses
• Diverse and inclusive organisation
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

 
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 ***********@lwb.org.au with the subject heading ‘Psychologist – Unley’.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice. Current application closing date is midnight 21st May 2024. 

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. If you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face-to-face interview, but face to face is our preferred interview style.

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 (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA)