Therapeutic Residential Care Worker - Talent Register

Division: Child Protection and Family Support

Position No: Pool Ref COM21226

Salary: Level 2, $103,485- $110,955 pa (includes 30% commuted allowance) pro rata + Super - PSCSAA 2024

Work Type: Fixed Term - Full Time, Fixed Term - Part Time, Permanent - Full Time, Permanent - Part Time, Casual

Location: South West

Closing Date: 2027-04-28 4:00 PM (YYYY-MM-DD)

Fixed term and permanent employees receive 17.5% annual leave loading.

Casuals receive an additional 25% loading allowance on top of the base salary $79,604 - $85,350 pa pro rata and penalty rates may apply.

More Than Just a Job!

At Communities we play a vital role in supporting and strengthening communities across Western Australia. We provide services and work with our partners to keep children safe, provide vital community services, including in emergencies, address homelessness, prevent family and domestic violence and provide stewardship for the disability sector. Our work also includes regulating early childhood education and care and leading initiatives across women's interests, youth, seniors and ageing, carers, and volunteering.

Join the South West Residential Care Team for an experience of a lifetime!

The South West of Western Australia features some of the best beaches, forests, and national parks to explore in your spare time. There is a great sense of community with endless family friendly venues and great schools. There is a mix of large regional centres with their available amenities and smaller country towns with their unique attractions. Discover the South West for yourself.

Based on eligibility, and location, you could be paid:

• 5 weeks annual leave (includes 1 week of shift work allowance),
• 10 days for public holidays and 3 days public service holidays per annum.
• Three days public service holidays per annum

Read more about the benefits of working with us.

Your Role. Your Impact.

Step into the world of Child Protection and Family support where your work is more than just a job.

As a Therapeutic Residential Care Worker you will be responsible for working as a member of a team to achieve best outcomes for children and young people and providing group and individual therapeutic residential care to children and young people. You will assist in planning, developing and implementing activities for children and young people.

You will be required to work a rotating roster of morning, afternoon and awake night shifts from Monday to Sunday to support the children in care in a 24/7 service.

Your work is guided by the Sanctuary Model to ensure the consistent delivery of trauma informed care to young people in Therapeutic Residential Care, which includes the Seven Commitments for creating safe environments. (see attached).

If you'd like to know more about the team or the role, connect with Lily O'Sullivan, Associate Director on or via email .

For more details, please refer to the attached Job Description Form (JDF).

How the Talent Register works

The Talent Register may be used to identify potential applicants for:

• backfilling opportunities of up to 12 months, including acting opportunities, secondments, temporary backfill arrangements and short-term fixed-term appointments.
• fixed-term opportunities & permanent vacancies using Limited Search as the recruitment method.

While this is not an application for a specific role, you may be considered for suitable opportunities as they arise.

Backfilling Opportunities (12 Months or Less)

By joining the Talent Register, you consent to being considered for temporary opportunities of up to 12 months.

If your skills and experience are suited to an opportunity:

• We may contact you about it
• We may review your suitability
• You may be offered the opportunity, depending on the outcome and business needs.

Limited Search Permanent and Fixed-Term Opportunities

A Talent Register may be used to identify potential applicants for permanent and fixed-term opportunities using Limited search recruitment methods.

If a Talent Register is used for this purpose, you may be contacted to confirm your interest and to obtain your consent to be considered as an applicant. Only people who provide consent will progress in the Limited Search recruitment process.

This register will remain active for a six month duration in total.

After this time:

• the register will be closed and;
• you will need to submit a new application if you wish to remain on the new register

Roles and Requirements

Opportunities may vary and will depend on business needs.

Further information about duties, responsibilities and work requirements will be provided if you are invited to participate in a recruitment process.

You are not required to address selection criteria at this stage.

If you are invited to participate in a recruitment process, further assessment may be required.

Consent

By joining the Talent Register, you consent to:

• your information being collected and used by the Department of Communities for Talent Register purposes
• being considered for temporary opportunities of up to 12 months where your skills and experience align with business needs

You may withdraw your interest from the Talent Register at any time.

• The Talent Register is not a recruitment pool.
• Joining the Talent Register is not a application for a specific job, but you may be considered for opportunities as they arise.
• Being on the Talent Register does not guarantee that you will be contacted, assessed or offered a role.
• Vacancies may still be filled through other recruitment methods, such as advertising or appointment from recruitment pools.
• The Department of Communities will decide the most appropriate recruitment approach for each vacancy.
• All recruitment decisions are made in accordance with the Public Sector Recruitment Standard.

Need Assistance?

Department of Communities WA in the South West is seeking a Therapeutic Residential Care Worker to join the Talent Register. You will work as part of a team to deliver trauma-informed residential care for children and young people, guided by the Sanctuary Model.

The role requires rotating rosters including mornings, afternoons and night shifts; eligibility-based backfill opportunities; fixed-term and permanent opportunities may arise; annual leave loading applies.