**Job no**: 505116
**Employment type**: Full Time
**Location**: Lismore & Far North Coast
**Categories**: Child, Youth & Family
- 5 weeks of annual leave per year
- Paid face to face training within your first 12 months of employment including TCI & CARE Training
- 8-day induction program
- 24-hour management support with a National After-Hours Service team
- Employee benefits program, including access to discounted health insurance, car servicing and travel club membership.
**About the role**
As part of our Far North Team based in Goonellabah, you will be responsible for leading, motivating and mentoring a team of dedicated youth support workers within a therapeutic residential setting. You'll play a key role in supporting Children & Young People to develop independent living skills, engage in education and remain positively connected to their team of Care Workers, Families, and broader community connections.
The Children & Young People we care for have experienced backgrounds of trauma, abuse and/or neglect and may also have a mental health, physical or psychosocial disability so you will work in partnership with a Therapeutic Specialist and Case Manager to lead the implementation of the CARE model and ensure a safe, homelike environment for the Children & Young People in our care.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Manage home in accordance with the CARE model, legislation, relevant standards, LWB policies and procedures and funding body requirements
- Provide direct care and support to children and young people within a residential care setting.
- Be actively present in the home environment, providing role modelling to staff
- Oversee and participate in the planning and implementation of therapeutic care plans
- Manage, support and provide reflective supervision to your team
- Create and maintain rostering and staff availability patterns
**Skills & Experience**
- A Diploma of Community Services, Youth work or related (A qualification is desirable but not essential for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants with relevant experience)
- Previous Leadership experience in services that support Children & Young people, such as OOHC and ITC settings
- Experience supporting people with disabilities, complex health needs and those whom exhibit pain based behaviours of concern
- Ability to provide supervision and support to a team
- Current First Aid (HLTAID003 or HLTAID011) & CPR (HLTAID001 OR HLTAID009) Certificate/s
- Current Drivers Licence
**How to Apply**
**Applications close at midnight on Sunday 22nd**June 2025.**
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
**Advertised**: 02 Jun 2025 AUS Eastern Standard Time
**Applications close**: 22 Jun 2025 23:55 AUS Eastern Standard Time