Therapeutic Specialist – Intensive Therapeutic Care

• Work for a leading social purpose organisation
• Monthly RDO’s, mobile, laptop
• Part time role (4 days per week or part time across 5 days) or full time position available 
• Based in Alice Springs
• Relocation allowance provided

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

The Therapeutic Specialist plays a coordination role within Intensive Therapeutic Care program undertaken by Life Without Barriers. The incumbent demonstrates a commitment to the care and protection of children and young people by ensuring that the CARE model is consistently applied within the program, services, and practice. To find out more information on the CARE framework please follow the link: https://www.lwb.org.au/our-approach/child-youth-and-family/ [link removed]

This position is being offered on a permanent part time or full-time basis and based in Alice Springs. 

Key Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and expertise in the formulation of Therapeutic Care Plans
• Ongoing implementation and review of care plans
• Prepare positive behaviour support and individual crisis management plans
• Carry out assessments of young people in LWB care
• Facilitate monthly reflective practice sessions for direct care staff
• Model and provide advice on CARE and TCI practices to staff
• Communicate with relevant stakeholders to monitor wellbeing, progress, and outcomes of Children and Young People.
• Ensure that consistent quality therapeutic care is delivered to Children and Young People in line with the CARE model.

Skills & Experience

• Postgraduate, Tertiary qualification in Psychology, Social Work, or related discipline.
• Current registration or eligibility to register with a relevant professional body
• Demonstrated experience working in a therapeutic care setting or working in a clinical environment with Children and Young People in OOHC
• Significant experience using evidence-based assessment tools with young people with trauma informed behaviour
• Demonstrated understanding and application of child development and complex trauma and its effects on children and young people in out of home care

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check, NT Working with Children Check and NT Child Protection Check

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + super + salary packaging
• Up to $15,900 of our annual salary tax free through salary packaging benefits
• Meaningful work opportunity with one of Australia’s leading social purpose organisations
• Access to discounts and benefits at selected retail outlets, travel, cinemas, restaurants and MORE

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts.

For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact [email protected] [link removed] . Please reach out if you have questions about relocation offered.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice. Current application closing Sunday 23rd of October.   

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. If you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face-to-face interview. 

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA)