Expression of Interest - Intensive Therapeutic Care - Support Worker
Job No:
LS2306
Location:
Newcastle
At Lifestyle Solutions, we believe our staff are our best assets. We believe in ensuring equal recognition, equal treatment, and equal opportunity to all of the people we support, our customers. We know this is only possible if we have great staff.
At Lifestyle Solutions, we have our people at the heart of everything we do. Whether this is the people we support, our customers, or our diverse workforce, we strive to be a leader in the sector, a service provider of choice, a business of excellence, and a great place to work.
We're looking for people to join our passionate teams on our journey to provide a rich, productive and happy life for the people we support and in our communities around Australia.
Intensive Therapeutic Care Support Worker
Are you looking for a rewarding career opportunity, not just a job? If so, we want to hear from you! The People We Support deserve the absolute best Support Workers who are invested in their journey to independence and we're on the look out to find them!
Are you truly passionate about supporting people? Do you want to make a real and tangible difference to someone's life? As a Support Worker in our organisation, you'll be doing just that. It's a challenging role and you'll need to be resilient but the reward for your hard work will come with the knowledge that you have provided a safe, consistent and secure home for a Child or Young Person.
Our Therapeutic Out of Home Care (OOHC) Services is for Children and Young People aged 12 - 18 years. These are often long-term placements and services operate 24hrs/7 days a week. As such, Support Workers will need to be available to work weekdays, weekends, public holidays, morning, evening, night and sleep over shifts.
Our Support Workers are strong positive role models who are responsible for a wide range of duties including emotional/behavior support, health, incident management, personal care and hygiene, transport, education, community access, cooking and domestic duties. You will help, guide and support the Children and Young People to develop independent living skills while ensuring all of their day to day care needs are met. This includes the implementation of clear routines, structure and positive behavior support practices and strategies.
If you're able to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team and in partnership with other services, and you have experience working with Children and Young People who have experienced complex trauma backgrounds we'd love to hear from you!
Essential requirements:
- Minimum Diploma of Youth Work, Disability Services, Community Services or relevant industry qualification
- Experience providing direct care in OOHC services and/or disability-based accommodation support services
- Good working knowledge of the Children and Young Person’s (Care and Protection) Act 1998 and the NSW Child Safe Standards for Permanent Care
- Sound practice and knowledge or significant experience in meeting the holistic needs of Children and Young People who may have Autism or Intellectual Disability
- Experience working with Children Young People who display difficult or challenging behaviors
- Full unrestricted NSW Driver’s license
- First Aid Certificate or willingness to obtain one
- Working with Children Check and National Criminal history check clearance
- Available and willing to work weekdays, weekends, public holidays, morning, evening, night and sleep over shift
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This is an Expression of Interest registration. Once a position becomes available in this service we will with be in contact you.
All applicants are required to undergo employment screening through probity checks, prior to commencing.
Lifestyle Solutions is committed to building a workplace culture that values diversity and inclusion. We actively promote the employment of people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTI and other diversity groups. Lifestyle Solutions encourages applications from people with disability and will provide reasonable adjustments in our recruitment processes and in the workplace.
If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please call the Recruitment Team on 02 4014 7800 or email jobs@lifestylesolutions.org.au