Careers

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

As a Therapeutic Specialist you will coordinate and deliver high quality assessment, consultive and referral services to support the development for Children & Young People in our care have backgrounds of complex trauma, abuse and/or neglect, and in some cases physical and/or psychosocial disabilities requiring support. You will also deliver specialist support to our care teams through therapeutic supervision, practice support and leading reflective practice sessions.

This is a 12 month-maximum term contract 4 days per week in Dubbo with flexible hybrid working arrangements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead therapeutic assessments and planning through comprehensive assessments and Positive Behaviour Support Plans
• Develop, review and support implementation of relevant therapeutic support plans, such as Positive Behaviour Support Plans
• Provide therapeutic expertise and guidance to support managers with reflective practice, and facilitate the development of effective strategies to prevent and respond to pain-based behaviour for young people
• Develop a thorough working knowledge of the CARE and Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) models to deliver training as required
• Advocate and lead ethical, evidence-informed therapeutic practice, in alignment with legislation, professional standards, organisational policy and the CARE and Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) models, for all children and young people within the program.
• Proactively engage and collaborate with relevant internal and external stakeholders

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Nursing or other related discipline. 
• Current registration or eligibility for registration with the professional body relevant to your qualification. 
• Experience using evidence-based assessment tools with young people with trauma informed behaviour
• Current Driver’s Licence

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check.

Benefits

• Based in Dubbo with flexible hybrid working arrangements
• Generous Salary Packaging Benefits – claim up to $15,900 per year, tax free!
• Monthly RDO + access to fitness passport

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 Emma Kennedy at recruitment@lwb.org.au.

Applications close at midnight on Sunday 15^th June 2025

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications are continuously reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice.