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Form of work- Mount Barker location
- Competitive Award Rate + 11% Super + Salary Sacrifice up to $15,900 a year!
- Feel secure in your role - Permanent Part Time and Casual Opportunities available
- Are you looking for an inclusive and diverse organisation that offers career opportunities and understands the importance of work life balance?
- Would you like to pay less tax and increase your take home pay?
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.
We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each individual need and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.
About the Role
Working in line with the CARE model you will strive to enhance the lives of children and young people in our Child Youth & Family programs incorporating a therapeutic, trauma informed approach.
We are seeking experienced candidates to support young people that display complex and challenging behaviours as well as children with dual mental health and disability diagnosis. You offer energy, safety, flexibility, and commitment in your work through genuine, caring, and sensitive engagement.
You will be supporting young people with such things as school pick up, meal prep, community access, in home support and working closely in line with their goals.
Please note: our residential services, run a 24/7 roster model and the successful candidates will be required to work weekdays, weekends, sleepovers, and public holidays.
Key Responsibilities
- Form and maintain professional, nurturing relationships with children and young people by building trust through visible interest and active engagement
- Act as an appropriate adult role model, seeking to engage young people in purposeful activities aimed at developing life skills and self-worth
- Support the involvement of family and where applicable, facilitate family visits/connection and the promotion of positive family relationships with children and young people, to suit individual needs
- Promote and encourage positive relationships with peers and other persons significant to the child/young person
- Assist the child/young person to participate as full as possible in making decisions about the activities undertaken
SA Child Youth and Family Requirements
To received paid employment as a RSW in SA need to be willing to enrol in an approved qualification, have completed Tertiary Studies in a relevant qualification or provide evidence that you are actively enrolled in a Certificate IV in Child, Youth and Family Intervention, Youth Work, Disability, Mental Health, or higher diploma/bachelor in a relevant field.
- Unrestricted (Opens) Australian Drivers Licence (essential)
- Valid Senior First Aid Certificate and CPR Certification (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement)
- Safe Environments Certificate within 3 years (must be obtained prior to commencement)
- Psychological assessment for employment in a children's residential facility (must be obtained prior to commencement)
- NDIS Worker Screening Check (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement)
- South Australian Working with Children's Check (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement)
Benefits
- Permanent Part Time and Casual Opportunities available
- Multiple shifts available to promote work/life flexibility
- A fantastic, positive, and supportive team culture
- Salary packaging tax benefits, meal entertainment benefit, novated leasing and more
- Growing organisation with great career opportunities
- Ongoing training and mentorship
Please note: 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.
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 “RSW – Mount Barker”. Please note that we do not accept applicants to this email address, they must be submitted online.
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 24th January 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.
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)
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