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 Clinician position provides high quality behaviour support and clinical services to clients in our Child, Youth and Family program (OOHC) as part of a professional multi-disciplinary team based in our Perth Metro office (Leederville) that also support our Out of Home Care services in the South West Region, Goldfields and Kimberley..

As a Clinician with LWB you will provide intensive support to foster families caring for children  with complex trauma and developmental vulnerabilities. LWB also supports children in residential care, and in the clinical role you would support and mentor the team to ensure therapeutic care is provided. You will provide behaviour support plans, individual crisis management and safety planning, along with practical and therapeutic support. This will include assessment, specialist referral and consultation using the CARE and TCI Models: with specific emphasis on the principles of trauma informed, developmentally focused and competency centred approaches.

This is a permanent full time role, based at our Leederville office. The role comes with a Tool of Trade vehicle, laptop and iPhone and there will be occasional travel required.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical knowledge and expertise to support clients in a range of Life Without Barriers Children Youth and Families programs.
• Provide assessments of children and young peoples developmental needs,, living skills, emotional and mental health status and behavioural profile.
• Develop and monitor intervention plans and strategies around challenging behaviours exhibited by children in out of home care high and complex needs.
• Review placement opportunities and skill development of children and young people in out of home care placements.
• Provide input and support around significant life transitions for children and young people in LWB placements. 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 carers and staff regarding therapeutic support including behaviour support plans and incident prevention and safety plans..
• Apply and uphold principles of equity and anti-discrimination in the workplace and adhere to organisational and legislative Health, Safety and Environment requirements.

 Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualification in psychology, social work, occupational therapy or equivalent;
• Current Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) registration with the relevant professional board e.g., Psychology Board; OR current membership of Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW);
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary stakeholder team and advocate for child-centred outcomes;
• Ability and experience in working with Aboriginal people and cultural competency;
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills, ability to use initiative and access peer support, problem solving and conflict management skills;
• Demonstrated ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality and professional boundaries;
• Understanding of the issues, services and legislation affecting the delivery of services for children and young people in out of home care settings;
• An ability to relate to and positively influence the skills of a range of support staff such as Foster Carers, Child and Family Practitioners and Youth Workers;
• Experience with restrictive practices highly desirable;
• Current Drivers Licence.

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check, Department of Communities Check and Working with Children Check.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work for one of Australia’s largest Social Purpose organisations
• Monthly Rostered Day Off
• Excellent tax benefits through salary packaging
• Regular individual and group supervision
• Working with a skilled, supportive multi-disciplinary team
• Opportunities for professional development
• Tool of Trade vehicle, laptop and mobile phone provided
• Based in Leederville

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]

Applications close midnight Sunday 13th November 2022.

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be 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.

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.

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 [link removed]