Therapeutic Care Practitioner in Melbourne

About the role

Turn your passion for supporting young people into a rewarding career. Be part of a dedicated and supportive team where you’ll build meaningful relationships, provide a safe and positive environment, and support young people through complex life experiences. You’ll help young people develop confidence, resilience, independence and practical life skills while encouraging positive connections with family and community.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide therapeutic leadership and trauma informed interventions based on sound practice expertise and contemporary research that delivers positive outcomes for vulnerable children and families.
• Provide support to staff, carers, and members of each child’s therapeutic network, including facilitating group work, conducting reflective practice sessions and training for staff.
• Ensure that appropriate assessment procedures including risk assessment, therapeutic planning processes and outcome measurements are undertaken for each child or young person upon referral, placement and transition to further options.
• Facilitate the development and timely review of Individual Therapeutic Care Plans (ITCP) for each child and young person.
• Participate and assist in organisation wide service provision and development of training, quality assurance mechanisms and improvement frameworks for trauma informed service delivery.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, particularly other mental health providers, to improve health and well-being outcomes including education performance, for each client in the program.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build safe, trusting and respectful relationships with young people.
• Provide trauma-informed, person-centred support tailored to individual needs.
• Encourage independence, life skills and participation in everyday activities.
• Support young people to achieve their individual goals and positive outcomes.
• Maintain accurate records and documentation.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and other key stakeholders.

What we’re looking for:

• A genuine passion for working with young people.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• A calm, flexible and positive approach to challenging situations.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Understanding of trauma-informed care and the needs of young people in out-of-home care.

To be successful you will have:

• A tertiary qualification in Psychology, Social Work, Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Behavioural Support Therapy, or a related discipline.
• Membership with the relevant professional association if applicable.
• Post Graduate training in relevant child, adolescent and family clinical practice, family work and systemic thinking is strongly preferred.
• Employee Working with Children Check; (or willingness to obtain).
• NDIS Worker Screening check (or willingness to obtain).
• Right to work in Australia.
• First Aid & CPR (or willingness to obtain).

Benefits of joining Ability Assist:

• Flexible working hours – family friendly environment.
• Opportunities for training and professional development.
• An inclusive team that is always there to support you.