Case Manager - Illawarra, Australia - Life Without Barriers

Life Without Barriers

Verified Company

Illawarra, Australia

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Olivia Brown

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Description

Job no: 501389

Employment type:
Full Time

Location:
Goulburn & Southern Tablelands, Wollongong, Illawarra & South Coast

Categories:
Child, Youth & Family

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 experienced and enthusiastic Case Manager with the ability to work autonomously, you will provide quality case management support for Children & Young People linked with our family-based care services within Southern NSW.

Working closely with young people, carers, and their families, you will develop and implement personalised case plans which work actively towards the permanency goals of the children and young people in our care.

This Permanent Full-Time role can be based in either
Wollongong or Goulburn and required to work primarily from office/client locations with some flexibility provided to work from home.

We take pride in our people and offer every opportunity to further develop yourself and your career when you join LWB.

On offer is an attractive salary, phone and laptop, car for business and personal use and access to salary packaging and a range of other great benefits.

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID19 with a minimum of two (2) doses or hold a valid medical exemption certificate, in accordance with Life Without Barriers Employee COVID19 Vaccination Policy. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process_

Key Responsibilities

Develop and implement high quality case plans or individual plans for children and young people in LWB's care
Develop and maintain functional and supportive relationships with children and young people in familybased care as well as their families to reach positive outcomes
Support and monitor placements and ensure carers participate in the case planning process and assist them to implement the strategies outlined in the case plan
Meet with clients and family members to gather input for case plans and ensure their views are represented
Participate in 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 in Social Work, Social Welfare, Psychology, Nursing or Mental health
Current Drivers Licence
Demonstrated experience in case planning with children and young people
Experience in OOHC or child protection preferred
Working understanding of the NSW Permanency Support Program
Experience working autonomously in implementing therapeutic case plans for multiple clients simultaneously

Benefits:

Discover a purpose you can wrap your heart around
Generous Salary Packaging benefits $15,900 per year, tax free
Company Vehicle + Monthly Rostered Day Off (RDO) provided

How to Apply

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.

Applications close at midnight on Sunday 2
nd April
2023 AEDT

Advertised: 17 Mar 2023 AUS Eastern Daylight Time

Applications close: 02 Apr :55 AUS Eastern Standard Time