Recruiter :
Gavin Carroll
- Regional Opportunity!! Relocation support
- $97,000.00 - $111,000.00 + Super + Salary Packaging
- Great work life balance also!
Key Responsibilities
- Therapeutic Expertise: Assess children and young people’s therapeutic needs and develop evidence-based, trauma-informed care plans.
- Support and Guidance: Facilitate therapeutic care team meetings and reflective practice sessions for carers, staff, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Child-Centred Approach: Ensure therapeutic interventions include children’s voices, promote resilience, and support their healing from trauma.
- Training and Education: Provide psychoeducation and therapeutic parenting interventions to carers and staff.
- Culturally Inclusive Practice: Work collaboratively with Aboriginal families, Elders, and service providers to deliver culturally safe care.
- Collaboration: Build partnerships with government agencies, referral services, and community organizations for holistic support.
- Competitive Salary: Based on experience and qualifications under the SCHADS Award.
- Flexibility: Full-time or part-time options available.
- Professional Growth: Access to training, professional development, and reflective supervision.
- Impactful Work: Join a team dedicated to supporting children and families through evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
- Qualifications: Tertiary qualifications in Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Nursing, or a related discipline (Postgraduate qualifications preferred).
- Experience: Clinical, mental health, or therapeutic care experience working with children and young people in Out-of-Home Care (OOHC).
- Skills: Strong interpersonal, communication, and conflict-resolution skills; expertise in developing therapeutic alliances and facilitating multidisciplinary teams.
- Knowledge: Trauma-informed practices, attachment-based interventions, child development, and systems theory.
- Cultural Awareness: Understanding of Aboriginal culture, intergenerational trauma, and culturally safe practices.
- Compliance: Current Australian driver’s license, professional registration, and ability to travel occasionally for training and therapeutic activities.
- Experience in therapeutic care settings or implementing the Sanctuary Model.
- Training in child, adolescent, and family therapeutic practice or mental health clinical practice.
- Experience providing attachment-based and family interventions.
