Residential Support Worker. Casual

**Job no**: 501177

**Employment type**: Casual

**Location**: Adelaide

**Categories**: Child, Youth & Family

**Starting rate $39.26 per hour + 10.5% Super + Salary Sacrifice up to $15,900 a year**
- **Are you looking for an inclusive and diverse organisation that offers career opportunities and understands the importance of work life balance?**:

- **Are you studying? Seeking a career change?**:

- **Would you like to pay less tax and increase your take home pay?**:

- **Would you like to receive discounted Private Health Insurance?**

**Why should you start your career with Life Without Barriers as a Residential Support Worker?**

There is no greater honour, no bigger privilege than partnering with children, young people, and families to positively impact their lives.

At Life Without Barriers, we believe that supporting children, young people and families involved with, or at risk of being involved with, the child protection system takes passion, strength, expertise, commitment, and a relentless desire to help them **grow, learn, heal, and thrive.**

Life Without Barriers can offer you a wealth of opportunities. In fact, we have had Operations Managers, Program Managers, Child and Family Practitioners and Case Managers who kicked off their careers with LWB as Youth Workers. Not only this, but Youth Work can also be the ideal role for people who are studying and wanting to put theory into practice, or who are seeking to achieve better work/life balance all while making a difference at the same time.

Residential Support work is truly what you make of it

**Locations**

Our Residential Care programs support children and young people across Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, & Mount Baker regions.

Training and team meetings will be held in person at our Unley office or online.

**Key Responsibilities**

As an LWB Residential Support Worker (RSW) you will:

- Form and maintain professional, nurturing relationships with children and young people by building trust through visible interest and active engagement.
- Act as an appropriate adult role model, seeking to engage young people in purposeful activities aimed at developing life skills and self-worth.
- Support the involvement of family and where applicable, facilitate family visits/connection and the promotion of positive family relationships with children and young people, to suit individual needs.
- Promote and encourage positive relationships with peers and other persons significant to the child/young person.
- Assist the child/young person to participate as full as possible in making decisions about the activities undertaken.

**SA Child Youth and Family Requirements**

To received paid employment as a **RSW in SA **need to be willing to enrol in an approved qualification, have completed Tertiary Studies in a relevant qualification or provide evidence that you are actively enrolled in a Certificate IV in Child, Youth and Family Intervention, Youth Work, Disability, Mental Health, or higher diploma/bachelor in a relevant field.
- Unrestricted (Opens) Australian Drivers Licence (essential)
- Valid Senior First Aid Certificate and CPR Certification (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement)
- Safe Environments Certificate within 3 years (must be obtained prior to commencement)
- Psychological assessment for employment in a children's residential facility (must be obtained prior to commencement)
- NDIS Worker Screening Check (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement)
- South Australian Working with Children's Check (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement)

If you meet the above qualification criteria, we invite you to register your interest for any future opportunities within LWB.

**What happens next?**

With a focus on ensuring safety and respect for children and young people in our care, we help guide you through a series of background checks to get you ready to work as a Residential Support Worker in SA.

Successful applicants will be taken through the following process:

- Invited to sit a one-on-one or group interview
- Invited to complete reference checks with a child safety focus
- We will conduct a National Criminal History check (paid for by LWB)
- Following the successful outcomes of these checks you will be invited to complete shadow shifts with an experience buddy support worker
- Supported to compete TCI, CARE and Cultural Awareness training

**Benefits**
- Multiple shifts available to promote work/life flexibility
- A fantastic, positive, and supportive team culture
- Salary packaging tax benefits, meal entertainment benefit, novated leasing and more
- Growing organisation with great career opportunities
- Ongoing training and mentorship
- Please note: To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or hold a valid medical exemption certificate. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process._

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