Residential Care Practitioner

3 weeks ago

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia UnitingCare Queensland Full time
Residential Care Practitioner | Toowoomba
  • Employment Term: Permanent Part-Time Opportunity (64 hours per fortnight)
  • Location: Toowoomba
  • Remuneration: From $44.58 per hour + Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging + Penalties & Allowances

Make a meaningful difference with UnitingCare Queensland

At UnitingCare we are leaders in crisis response, the protection of vulnerable people and children, financial resilience and family wellbeing. Our FaDS (Family and Disability Services) team work passionately across Queensland to make a meaningful difference in people's lives.

As a Residential Care Practitioner, you'll be encouraged to grow, develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about. Let's make a meaningful difference, together

Your part in our UnitingCare team

Working in accordance with the CARE model, you will be able to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children, young people and families by taking a therapeutic centred approach.

As a Residential Care Practitioner, you will support the provision of stable, trauma informed, nurturing non-family-based care arrangements.

The focus of this Program is to provide support to children with to extreme needs, by encouraging them to:
  • Feel a strong sense of identity and belonging through development of social and interpersonal skills
  • Build positive and trusting connections with family, friends and community through relationship-based experiences and consistent and caring responses
  • Have access to opportunities for learning and development to meet their individual needs.
  • Create healthy lifestyle choices and access to additional external support services for physical, mental and emotional support and promote positive life outcomes.

In addition to the above your role will also include but not be limited to:
  • Maintaining a Clean and Safe home environment
  • Managing Day to Day tasks within the context of a Residential Care home environment
  • Completing verbal and written reports as per Program policies and procedures
  • Have flexibility to work weekdays, weekends and sleep over shifts
  • Support the practical application of the CARE model when caring for children in our care

What makes a difference for you?
  • Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
  • NFP Salary Packaging: Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via the following link: SalaryPackagingExplained
  • A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs
  • 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme
  • Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events
  • Career development opportunitiesto challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference
  • A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others

We'd love you to be part of our UnitingCare family

Joining our FaDS, team, you'll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we're a proud not-for-profit with more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen's Hospital, and St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years.

Child safe, Child friendly

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:

  • provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children
  • implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
  • appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur

Diversity & Inclusion

Our approach is simple– everybody iswelcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values.We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.

Safe workplace

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.
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