Interim Care Residential Worker. Permanent Part Time

**Job no**: 504732
**Employment type**: Part Time
**Location**: Sydney
**Categories**: Child, Youth & Family

**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

**About the role**

As a Residential Youth Worker within our Interim Care team in **Blair Athol**, you will provide direct care and supervision to children and/or young people who are currently in a transitional care placement.

You will be required to engage with the Children & Young People in our care in a therapeutic and trauma informed manner that supports them to learn independent life skills, develop problem solving abilities and fosters appropriate and positive relationships with others.

Provide trauma informed care to Children & Young People within our Interim Care program. Permanent Part Time position available within our Blair Athol Team.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Provide daily care, supervision and transport to children and young people in residential care within a therapeutic framework.
- Implement, follow and support each individual's care plan
- Plan and actively engage children and young people in purposeful activities that increase and develop life skills.
- Support the routines of children and young people through assisting in and supervising wake-up, bedtime, daily care, both physical and personal, completion of chores and laundry, meals, meal preparation, recreational activities, homework supervision and assistance
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to address the impacts of abuse, neglect, separation from families and complex trauma on children and young people
- Support the involvement of family and facilitate contact and the development /maintenance of positive family relationships
- Monitor & maintain high quality written and electronic documentation such as daily notes and report writing

**Skills & Experience**
- Current First Aid Certificate
- Current Australian Drivers Licence
- Experience working with children and young people, ideally within an out of home care and/or child care setting
- Ability to form and maintain professional, nurturing relationships with children and young people.
- Demonstrated understanding of child development and the ability to support the learning of a broad range of life skills.
- Demonstrated empathetic understanding of complex trauma and its effects on children and young people in out of home care.
- Demonstrated understanding of the importance of family/kinship connections to children and young people in placement

**Benefits**
- Grow your career with one of Australia's leading social purpose organisations, with ongoing training opportunities and a supportive team environment
- Access to Salary Packaging benefits and claim up to $15,900 in tax free earnings
- Hourly rate from $33.41 (Permanent)

**How to Apply**

**Applications close at midnight on 23 March 2025.**
- We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face-to-face interview._

**Advertised**: 07 Mar 2025 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 23 Mar 2025 23:55 AUS Eastern Daylight Time