Residential Youth Workers

**Job no**: 504853
**Employment type**: Part Time, Casual
**Location**: Sydney
**Categories**: Child, Youth & Family
- **2 x Permanent Part Time positions available within the Penrith area**:

- **24/7 Management support via our National After Hours support service.**:

- **Generous Employee Benefits
- Access to salary packaging, Fitness Passport + More**

**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**

Working within our Interim Care team, you will provide direct care and mentorship to Children and Young People, generally aged between 9 and 14 years.

Employing the Children & Residential Experiences (CARE) and Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) frameworks, you will provide support to young individuals who have likely faced childhood trauma, abuse, and/or neglect with low to medium support needs.

You will be part of a team working to ensuring a safe, homelike environment for children and young people to thrive, supporting them to learn independent life skills, develop problem solving skills and build appropriate and positive relationships with others.

We have 2 Permanent Part Time opportunities available within the Penrith area. Our residential homes operation 24/7, therefore successful applicants will need to be able and willing to work a roster which regularly includes afternoon, overnight and weekend shifts.

**Role requirements**:

- Experience supporting children and young people with who have experienced childhood trauma and disadvantage (Ideally within a residential care setting)
- Demonstrated experience in developing positive developmental relationships that build trust with children and young people through visible interest and active engagement, and to place the best interests of the child at the centre of all interactions
- Understanding of the importance of family/kinship connections to children and young people in placement
- Willingness to assist with activities of daily living, including personal care (if required)
- Demonstrated peer support, problem solving and conflict management skills.
- Availability and willingness to undertake all shift types, including afternoons, sleepovers and weekends.
- Current First Aid Certificate (HLTAID011)
- Current Australian Drivers Licence

**Additional Support**

Life Without Barriers offers a dedicated After-Hours Service (AHS) for all NISS and Child Youth and Family programs. AHS ensures efficient responses to after-hours events that cannot wait until the next business day, reducing on call requirements for our front-line leaders and significantly improving their work-life balance.

**How to Apply**

**Applications close at midnight on Wednesday 14th May 2025**

**Advertised**: 07 May 2025 AUS Eastern Standard Time
**Applications close**: 14 May 2025 23:55 AUS Eastern Standard Time