Therapeutic Specialist

**Work options**: Flexible
- Regular reflective supervision + professional development
- Be innovative and creative in supporting young people in your local community
- Generous leave + Salary packaging benefits

**About Take Two**

Take Two provides a range of therapeutic services for infants, children and young people who have suffered trauma, neglect and disrupted attachment, and contributes to the service system that provides care, support and protection for these children.

Take Two is also involved, in partnership with other community service agencies, in the provision of therapeutic family violence services, therapeutic foster care, therapeutic residential care, and therapeutic services for the Family Preservation and Reunification Response Program.

**The Opportunity**
- ** Shepparton office, Yorta Yorta Country**:

- ** Part time (0.8FTE), Permanent role**:

- **$116K pro rata plus super and salary packaging**

Berry Street has implemented the Teaching Family Model (TFM), an evidence based holistic approach to supporting young people in out of home care with a focus on teaching age-appropriate social skills, problem solving and self
- determination in a family style group setting. Berry Street's Residential Care staff are also trained in the use of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI), a proactive prevention and de-escalation approach to crisis situations.

As a **Therapeutic Specialist** you will work closely with the young people and Residential Care team focusing on facilitating reflective practice and building team members knowledge of therapeutic parenting strategies which will enable them to develop responses which foster a therapeutic care environment. Spending significant time at the home to provide coaching, modelling and informal therapeutic conversations with the staff and young people will be required to ensure success in this role and program.

**Key Responsibilities** for this specialist role is to provide clinical assessment, consultancy and therapeutic support to the Berry Street Southern Therapeutic Residential Care program.
- Conducting assessments and developing therapeutic treatment plans, in conjunction with the client and care team, with clear goals that are reviewed regularly.
- Working closely and collaboratively with the client and the care team to achieve agreed goals within a specified time frame.
- Working collaboratively with the Teaching Family Model consultant to support staff, provide training, and implement the model in a tailored approach for each child.
- Helping residential staff to incorporate the model in a therapeutic manner.

**About the location**

Shepparton is a growing regional city located 180 kilometres from Melbourne on the beautiful Goulburn river. With a population of 68,000 people, the town is known for their agriculture, arts and rich Aboriginal history. The region offers a variety of lifestyles, with urban centres and country towns all within a half hour drive of the CBD.
- Sound decision making skills,
- Reflected in excellent clinical judgements.
- A high degree of self-discipline, reflected in the ability to provide targeted clinical services within strict timeframes.

You will have a demonstrated ability to provide a high standard of complex direct service in the clinical assessment and treatment of children, young people and families; and to comply with service delivery towards output and outcomes requirement.

An appropriate Bachelor degree level or higher qualification in a Health or Welfare related field such as Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Social Work, Family Therapy, Speech Pathology or related discipline is required, along with significant experience conducting clinical work with children (minimum 5 years).

**You may also have the following**:

- Postgraduate training.
- Experience in providing secondary consultation, psychoeducation and coaching
- Family Therapy training

**The Benefits**
- Regular reflective supervision
- $15,900.00 pa (pro rata) Salary Packaging + Additional Salary Packaging for meals/accommodation
- 10 weeks paid parental leave + other generous leave conditions
- Access to the Employee Assistance Program, with access for staff's immediate family

**How to Apply**

**Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position** to be submitted by** 11pm, Sunday 17 August 2025.**

**Queries to Adam Dunn - Clinical Senior Manager 9450 4700**
- Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spiritu