Clinician (Niss). Full-time Max-term

**Job no**: 503201

**Employment type**: Full Time

**Location**: Richmond & Hawkesbury, Sunshine, Perth

**Categories**: Child, Youth & Family, Immigration Support Services, Mental Health
- **Flexible working arrangements**:

- **Tool of trade vehicle available for personal use & fuel cards**:

- **$115,000 + 11% super + $15,900 annual salary sacrifice + $2600 annual meal & entertainment card**:

- **Work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations**

**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.

**About the Service**

Our **National Immigration Support Service** (NISS)** offers comprehensive assistance to individuals seeking asylum and refugees residing within the Australian community.

Navigating the journey toward stability in Australia, as an asylum seeker or refugee, is fraught with challenges. At Life Without Barriers, we understand the arduous quest for freedoms often overlooked by others. Our mission is to support individuals in achieving their aspirations, guiding them through the complexities of a daunting system, one step at a time.

At Life Without Barriers, our dedicated and flexible team plays a crucial role in improving the lives of refugees and asylum seekers throughout Australia. If you are driven by values of inclusivity and respect, joining our team represents a profound opportunity to make a significant difference. We approach our work with empathy and respect, addressing the unique needs of our clients and acknowledging the difficult paths they have traversed in search of safety from conflict and adversity.

Becoming part of our team could be the most meaningful step in your career, enabling you to contribute positively to the lives of those in need of support and understanding.

**About the Role**

Life Without Barriers is seeking **Clinicians in Victoria, New South Wales, and Western Australia** to play a crucial role within our SRSS program, assisting clients through significant life transitions. These Clinicians will be integral in helping clients develop coping strategies, reduce the impact of these transitions, and ensure their smooth progress. Focused on the safety and well-being of asylum seekers and refugees, these roles require delivering high-quality assessments, consultation, and referral services aimed at fostering mental health improvements and helping clients achieve their goals while awaiting visa decisions.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Provide clinical knowledge and expertise to support clients from refugee or asylum seeker backgrounds.
- Undertake assessments of clients’ cognitive and learning abilities, living skills, emotional and mental health status and behavioural profile.
- Provide input and support around significant life transitions for clients into the community. Such planning would involve assisting the client to develop skills to cope with these major changes, minimise the impact on them and ensure the viability of the transition.
- Provide training and support for case managers, case workers and staff regarding therapeutic support including behaviour support plans and incident prevention and response plans for clients.
- Support and promote the work of Life Without Barriers, maintaining a services free of judgement by skilled and dedicated staff and deliver the services people are entitled to receive under Australian law.
- Set the standard for a culture of continuous improvement in service delivery, pinpointing and pursuing opportunities that elevate client outcomes and overall customer experiences.

**Benefits of Working with the NISS team**
- Monthly rostered day off.
- Working in an established, highly regarded and Refugee and Asylum Seeker program.
- Opportunity to work in a supportive and flexible team environment.
- Weekly individual supervision with a Senior Clinician and opportunities for group supervision.
- Weekly team consultation and review meetings.
- Administrative supports.

**Skills & Experience**
- Tertiary qualifications in Psychology, with a current registration or eligibility for registration with the professional body or Psychology board of Australia to practice as a psychologist.
- Previous experience in clinical or forensic psychology highly desirable
- The ability to work collaboratively with agencies that support people with complex and challenging needs such as with mental health services, GPs, Psychiatrists, or other statutory or community-based services.
- Demonstrated experience operating within both internal and external Clinical Governance frameworks.
- Willing and eager to provide clinical interventions and case management support in an engaging, fle