Therapeutic Support Worker

5 months ago

North Melbourne, Australia UpBeat Health and Wellbeing Full time

Upbeat Heath & Wellbeing is looking for Therapeutic Health professionals to join our Multidisciplinary team. Upbeat is a Fem led, Neurodiverse and First Nations led community based out of Narm. Upbeat embraces a Early intervention approach to all Mental Health services providing Community based services, 1.1 and Community Programs.

We are seeking staff that come with experience and training around trauma informed care, Holistic practices and Therapeutic methods. Complex needs are of the norm in our space and we are seeking experienced resilient staff to help lead and be a part of our team.

**KEY HIRING CRITERIA**
- **We Are Looking For**:_
- **Staff available morning & afternoon**:

- **Drivers licence REQUIRED**:

- **WWCC REQUIRED**:

- **Police check REQUIRED**:

- **NDIS Screening check REQUIRED**
- **Key Tasks**:_
- **Assistance with morning routine & transport**:

- **Assistance with afternoon transport, community engagement and after school routines**:

- **Ability to work with complex needs children**:

- **Resetting therapeutic space after / before transportation, which may include: cleaning, activity planning, activity preparation**:

- **Full-time availability HIGHLY desirable with opportunities to become full-time / part-time after trial period**

**Experience with Autistic young people **HIGHLY **desirable.

**What A Day At UpBeat Might Look Like**:

- Planning therapeutic activities based on client strength, need, facilitating and implementing the program.
- Providing positive behavioural support interventions, have a strong understanding of rationale, be familiar of facilitating play based therapies, sessions, counselling and working in a holistic manner.
- Holding and maintaining a Therapeutic home, space by using initiative, using Art and cleaning as a way to create & reset Therapeutic bedrooms & homes daily.
- Being an excellent advocate, making phone calls between systems holders, advocating and documentation in a clinical manner.
- Working in fast paced environments, problem solving and fighting for equity and equality.
- Sharing personal strengths and implementing these into daily programs.
- Hosting a dedicated hour around your strengths, eg., 3 x weekly yoga classes, dance lessons, teaching poetry, training in the gym or another moving based activity to use with our wiggly ADHD community.

**UpBeat Delivers a Wide Variety of Programs as a Community Including**:

- Holistic, Trauma informed, Evidence based Programs and 1.1 Culturally safe services
- Child, Youth & Family Early Intervention programs for Aboriginal, TSI
- ND Families & individuals.
- Social, Emotional and Wellbeing First Nations practices
- PACE Therapeutic models of play based, art, music & sport based therapeutic programs and practices
- Art Therapy, counseling and music Therapies
- Culturally competent and safe modules of community engagement
- Respite trips, Kinship care and in home respite.

**Upbeat Holds the Values of**:

- **Courage**: Courage to take on a growth mindset and continuously learn working on being the best we can be.
- **Growth Mindset**: Forever working towards contributing to the best of our ability. When we know better we can do better.
- **Working together**: Taking on a collaborative approach understanding every individual's input helps build our community.
- **Community**:Collaborative care is our Jam and together we are stronger.
- **Diversity**: We celebrate Diversity and embrace our individual differences and the beauty they bring

**Job Types**: Full-time, Casual

**Salary**: $25.00 - $35.00 per hour

Schedule:

- Shift work

Supplemental pay types:

- Penalty rates

Application Question(s):

- Do you have experience with ASD?

Licence/Certification:

- First Aid Certification (preferred)
- Working with Children Check (required)
- National Police Certificate (preferred)
- Driver Licence (required)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (required)

Work Location: In person

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