**Job no**: 505114
**Employment type**: Full Time
**Location**: Coffs Harbour & North Coast, Lismore & Far North Coast
**Categories**: Child, Youth & Family
- Up to $15,900 of your annual salary tax free through salary packaging
- Monthly RDO with a competitive salary and tool of trade vehicle
- Discounted private health insurance
- Access to discounts on retail outlets, cinemas, restaurants and more
- Join one of Australia's leading social purpose organisations
- Career pathways across a national organisation
**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 an Intensive Therapeutic Case Manager, you will play a pivotal role in providing holistic support to young people in need. Your primary responsibility will be to work closely with young people, who are experiencing a range of emotional, behavioural, and psychological difficulties.
To be successful in this role, you will have experience working with Children & Young People in out of home care and an understanding of trauma and its effects on children and young people. This is a hybrid working role, and regular travel across Grafton, Lismore and Tweed Heads is a requirement of this position.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Develop and implement high quality therapeutic case plans for Children and Young People in LWB's care
- Develop and maintain functional and supportive relationships with children and young people in therapeutic care - Significant Disability as well as their families to support positive outcomes
- Attend shifts within the intensive therapeutic care homes, and work closely with the team
- Meet with clients and family members to gather input for case plans and ensure their views are represented
- Coordinate and network with other agencies to effectively achieve case plan goals within tight time frames.
- Participate in an on-call roster as required
- Ensure compliance with all internal policy and procedure, statutory and contractual requirements in relation to management of service delivery
**Skills & Experience**
- Relevant bachelor's degree, or a relevant diploma and be working towards a degree. (_A qualification is desirable but not essential for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants with relevant experience and a willingness to undertake further training)_
- Previous case management experience within an Intensive Therapeutic Care or Out Of Home Care (OOHC) setting
- Experience supporting Children & Young People with disability, who have experienced backgrounds of trauma, abuse and/or neglect.
- Understanding of current casework practices for children and young people
- Current drivers' licence
**How to Apply**
**Applications close at midnight on Sunday 29th June 2025**
**Advertised**: 12 Jun 2025 AUS Eastern Standard Time
**Applications close**: 25 Jun 2025 23:55 AUS Eastern Standard Time