Senior Residential Support Worker. Permanent Full- Time - Geelong
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Job no: 504071
Employment type: Casual, Full Time, Part Time
Location: Geelong & Great Ocean Road
Categories: Child, Youth & Family
- Geelong location – new residential house
- Competitive salary + Super + Salary Sacrifice up to $15,900 a year + $2,600 Entertainments card!
- Prior disability and child, youth, and family experience essential (2-3 years)
- No on-call required
Join Our Team at Life Without Barriers!
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people? Do you thrive in challenging yet rewarding environments? Life Without Barriers is looking for experienced Senior Residential Support Workers to join our teams in Geelong. This is your opportunity to positively impact the lives of young individuals in a supportive and dynamic setting.
New Funding and New Beginnings
Thanks to new funding, Life Without Barriers is expanding our services to better support the needs of young people in the Geelong region. This funding allows us to enhance our programs, provide additional resources, and open new residential houses. With this support, we are committed to delivering the highest quality care and making a lasting impact on the lives of those we support.
The purpose of the Senior Residential Support Worker is to provide direct care of children and/or young people, as well as supporting the House Manager to provide guidance and support to Residential Support Workers and actively work together in a unified approach to meet the needs of the young person. You will also be responsible for the administrative and reporting requirements for the house.
An incumbent in this role must offer energy, safety, flexibility, and commitment in their work with children and young people through genuine, caring and sensitive engagement.
As a Senior Residential Support Worker, you will:
- Work directly with young people in a 24/7 Residential Setting
- Follow fortnightly rotating shift rosters, including afternoons, evenings, active nights, and sleepovers, with weekend work required
- Support young people with complex behaviours and disabilities, catering to their individual needs
- Create a safe and nurturing environment to promote their well-being and development
Life Without Barriers offers a dedicated After-Hours Service (AHS) for all CYF programs, a unique feature that sets us apart from our competitors. AHS ensures efficient responses to after-hours events that cannot wait until the next business day, relieving our front-line staff from on-call duties and significantly improving their work-life balance.
This service handles critical, emergent, and time-sensitive situations, providing support, advice, escalation assistance, and guidance. This ensures that those supported by, employed by, or collaborating with Life Without Barriers can have trust and confidence in our after-hours service delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Form and maintain professional, nurturing relationships with children and young people by building trust through visible interest and active engagement
- Oversee and participate in the planning and implementation of purposeful activities and routines which support and increase the life skills of the children and young people in our care.
- Provide daily care, supervision and transport to children and young people in our care within a therapeutic framework.
- Contribute to the home being a place that is emotionally and physically safe, nurturing, and appropriately engaging and stimulating, to foster growth and resilience.
- Support with internal and external data recording and reporting systems, ensuring all client data is up to date.
- Lead by example and model best practice for staff in applying the principles of CARE and TCI to all interactions with children, young people, and families.
- Plan and actively participate in activities, routines, and transitions to support and increase competencies of the children and young people in our care, considering the child or young person’s developmental needs.
- Participate as an active member of the team, attending and contributing to team meetings, supervision, and reflective practice, to maintain a consistent and responsive trauma-informed service.
Skills & Experience
- Prior knowledge and/or experience working with young people with a disability (essential).
- Hold or actively working toward a Certificate IV in Child, Youth and Family Intervention or similar (essential).
- Completed Top Up Units in Child, Youth and Family Intervention (CHCMHS007, CHCPRT009, CHCCS009, CHCPRT010) (essential).
- Healing Matters Certificate (desirable).
- A current Senior First Aid Certificate (or willingness to obtain if successful) –(essential).
- A current unrestricted Australian Driver Licence (essential).
- Ability to work various shifts (sleepover & active nights) throughout the week
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).
Benefits
- At Life Without Barriers, we prioritise a strong evidence-based culture and offer extensive professional development opportunities. Successful candidates may receive training in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) and Children and Residential Experiences (CARE) from Cornell University.
- Work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
- The new funding allows us to expand and improve our residential services, providing better support and resources for both staff and residents.
- Be part of a team that truly makes a difference in young people's lives, providing them with the support they need to thrive.
Click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact recruitment@lwb.org.au . Please note we do not accept applications to this email.
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. Applications will close at midnight 2nd October 2024.
Please note: To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or hold a valid medical exemption certificate. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.
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)
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.
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