Case Manager

**Job no**: 504304
**Employment type**: Full Time
**Location**: Lismore & Far North Coast
**Categories**: Child, Youth & Family
- **Flexible work location - can be based in Lismore, Ballina or Tweed Regions**:

- **Company Car + Monthly rostered day off (RDO)**:

- **Fantastic salary packaging benefits through Maxxia - up to $18,550 per year, tax free**

**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.

**Discover a purpose you can wrap your heart around**

As a Case Manager within our Family Based Care team in the **Far North Coast NSW** you will collaborate closely with children, young people, their carers, and families to create and implement case plans that strive towards achieving the permanency goals of those we support.

In this dynamic role, You'll build and maintain strong, functional relationships with both the children and their families, ensuring that every voice is heard and every need is met. Your efforts will be pivotal in supporting and monitoring placements, guiding carers in their foster care journey and helping them implement effective strategies that best support the children and young people within their care.

This permanent full time position can be flexibly located within the Lismore, Ballina & Tweed Heads regions (Including hybrid on site/remote arrangements). Regular travel within the Far North Coast region is required and a company vehicle, inclusive of personal use, is provided.

**Role requirements**:

- Relevant bachelor’s degree such as Social Work, Social Welfare, Psychology or similar (_A qualification is desirable but not essential for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants with relevant experience)_
- Previous case management experience within an Out Of Home Care (OOHC) /Child Protection setting
- Experience supporting Children & Young People with disability, who have experienced backgrounds of trauma, abuse and/or neglect.
- Working understanding of the NSW Permanency Support Program
- Understanding of trauma and its effects on children and young people
- Current drivers’ licence

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

**How to Apply**:
**Applications close at midnight, Sunday 1st December 2024**

**Advertised**: 21 Nov 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 01 Dec 2024 23:55 AUS Eastern Daylight Time