AddressABOUT US
Strive Community Care is a recently established social purpose organisation that actively supports the vulnerable children and families within our community through quality, person-centred services. We believe that everyone deserves equal opportunities in life, especially those people that have experienced disadvantage and trauma. Healing and growing is a process that is possible with the right support. For more information, please visit our website: www.strivecommunitycare.com.au
BENEFITS
Aside from attractive hourly rates, Strive offers a robust training induction program, monthly supervision, has a focus on supporting the wellbeing of staff, and provides ongoing professional development opportunities.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Strive Community Care provides therapeutic home environments for children and young people with histories of complex trauma, abuse and neglect. We utilise a strong Therapeutic Framework and unique CREATE Model of Care with a focus on establishing holistic safety. Children and young people are provided with a sense of family, support to heal, opportunity to positively connect with others, and rebuild their lives.
We are now looking for a Senior Therapeutic Care Worker in the Ipswich Region to play a key role in supporting children and young persons in their healing journey through providing care in therapeutic homes. This is a Part-Time Role working up to full-time hours.
These positions are required to work across 24/7 rotating rostered shifts, including sleepovers, weekends, and public holidays.
Duties of the successful applicant include:
- Assisting the Therapeutic Program Manager with managerial administration tasks as required (up to 10 hours per week with the remainder spent on the floor)
- Build and promote a positive and caring environment that supports the children/young people residing in our homes.
- Form and maintain professional, nurturing relationships with children and young people by building trust through visible interest and active engagement
- Maintain safety through effectively implementing Behaviour Support Plans and Individual Crisis Management Plans.
- Work with young people in a manner informed by attachment and trauma-informed care in line with our unique CREATE Model of Care.
- Ensure all essential needs are met for the young person within the home such as providing a balanced diet, prompts with hygiene, support for school engagement, and creating positive life experiences.
- Promote independent living skills including assistance with cooking, meal planning, budgeting, shopping, and maintaining a house and other daily living requirements.
- Demonstrate an empathic understanding of complex trauma, incorporating this understanding into everyday interactions, as well as responding to pain-based behaviour in a sensitive and non-punitive way.
- Mentor and coach children/young people to assist them to achieve their goals through the Strive Mentoring Program.
- Act as an appropriate adult role model, seeking to engage young people in purposeful activities aimed at developing life skills and self-worth
- Assist and support children/young people to develop links and build their capacity to be part of their community.
- Willingness to share the management on-call roster.
- Willingness to Act in the Therapeutic Care Manager role when requested.
- A genuine interest in children and young people and their well-being.
- The successful applicant will be required to work shifts as rostered, including morning, afternoon, active nights, sleepovers,and on weekends and public holidays.
- A sound understanding of trauma and Therapeutic Care principles.
- Ideally have experience working in the welfare/community service sector with young people, preferably in residential care.
- Sound knowledge of the Child Protection Act 1999 (QLD) or Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 (NSW).
- Sound understanding of the Charter of Rights for children in OOHC.
- Ability to advocate on behalf of people for children / young persons.
- The physical demands of the position are anything up to and including:
- The ability to engage in physical intervention as outlined in Positive Behaviour Support Plans and ‘Physical Intervention: Disengagement to holding’ techniques as per internal training.
- Prolonged standing and walking (between 75% to 100% of a shift).
- Sitting for prolonged periods (up to 2 hours).
- Stair climbing.
- Repetitive and/or sustained squatting.
- Repetitive slight stooping and twisting of the trunk when sweeping, mopping, and vacuuming.
- Occasional lifting, pushing and pulling 5-10kg in furniture movement.
- Repetitive reaching and sustained gripping in wiping benches, fridges, ovens.
