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 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 recruiting a Case Manager to join our Family Based Care Program. We work closely with the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing to provide care arrangements either through Foster Care or a Targeted Care Package (TCP).
As a program we are responsible for ensuring that any child or young person placed in our care is provided with a safe and nurturing environment. We work closely with DFFH and other stakeholders to ensure that we are supporting the child in the context of their case plan and court order. As a case manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that the program requirements for home-based care are implemented into practice.
This position reports to the Operations Manager, is being offered as a full-time permanent position and will be based in Dandenong, they will also be required to travel across metro and regional areas at times.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing case management to children and young people in a range of different out of home care arrangements, predominately Foster care. Your caseload may also include supporting young people through a Targeted Care Package (TCP) where they could be living with parents, kinship carer or in independent living.
- Building positive relationships with children, young people and carers through regular home and outreach visits
- Ensuring that we are including the client voice in our care planning and preparing them for leaving care.
- Working as part of a care team to ensure the co-ordination of supports and services to ensure the child and young person’s health, development and wellbeing needs are being met.
- Providing regular support and coaching to foster carers to ensure they provide a safe and secure environment for the children and young people in their care.
Skills & Experience
- Bachelor level qualifications in Social Work, Social Science, Psychology or Human Services
- Knowledge of trauma informed care and responses to pain based behaviours.
- Experience providing case management to children and young people, preferably within the child protection context.
- Demonstrated ability to manage a caseload ranging in complexity and able to prioritise competing demands.
- Experience developing quality case plans or individual plans as well as leading the implementation of the goals within the plan.
- Experience working with individuals, families or groups from a culturally appropriate perspective.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders and being able to produce written reports and case notes to high standard.
- It is a requirement that you hold a current unrestricted driver’s licence.
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).
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.
Benefits
- A great supportive team culture with focus on support and supervision
- Learn from a Community of Practice of Case Managers
- Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisation
- Monthly rostered day off
- Salary packaging tax benefits
- Tool of Trade Vehicle & fuel card
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 sadna.patelthomas@lwb.org.au
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 Sunday 28th April 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. With this in mind, 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