Job Description
Senior Family Services Practitioner - Frankston
Salary - $61 - $64 per hour (depending on experience) + super
Benefits:
- Full time loum postion, with the view to move to permanent ongoing
- Intensive training opportunites
- Continued career growth and development
- Opportunity to utilise your skills to support vulnerable children's and families
Why work with Client Organisation:
Our client organisation is a child-safe NFP committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. They honour all cultural backgrounds, abilities, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities and spiritual beliefs.
About the Role:
We are recruiting a Senior Aboriginal Family Preservation and Reunification Response (AFPR) practitioner. You will provide intensive support to families, with the goal of preventing at-risk Aboriginal children from entering care, You will also work with children who have recently been placed in out-of-home care to be reunified with their families. Startig on a locum contract with the view to move to permanent ongoing.
Key Duties:
- Provide intensive outreach family support service to children or young people and their families
- Undertake accurate record keeping, including case notes, completed forms and reports as required
- Coordinating with various stakeholders, including Child Protection
- Organising family case conferences (as agreed) to establish joint case plan roles and responsibilities
- Proactively engaging families through an intensive therapeutic, evidence-informed approach
- Provide culturally sensitive service responses with a focus on healing
- Offering practical, emotional support, advocacy, coaching, skill-building, and access to social and economic resources
Skills and Experience:
- Relevant qualifications in Social Work, Diploma of Community Serivces, Bachelor of Social Work or equivalent
- Minimum 2 years' experience working in a Family Services OR Child Protection Program
- Understanding of child, youth and family theoretical frameworks and interventions
- MARAM training and an understaning of family violence is highly desirable
- Thorough understanding of child development and the issues that vulnerable children, young people and families face, including sound knowledge of the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005.
You will also need to be willing to provide 2x professional references + undergo a Working with Children Check and Police Check.
How to apply:
- Click 'Apply Now' and upload your CV via the appropriate link
- For any queries regarding the position or application process, please email teamfam@twrecruitment.com.au or contact (03) 9081 0562 and ask to speak to someone in the Family Services Team
TRADEWIND AUSTRALIA AND THE ORGANISATIONS WE REPRESENT ARE PROUD TO BE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYERS
We welcome applications from people who reflect the diversity of the organisations we partner with, and the people they support. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability and lived experience to apply
