Intensive Family Preservation Caseworker - Campbelltown, Australia - Uniting

Uniting

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Campbelltown, Australia

1 week ago

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Olivia Brown

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About the Role

_This is full time, permanent position (35 hours per week). Based in Campbellton._

This role is responsible for providing culturally responsive child and family assessments, intensive home visiting, crisis management and casework to prevent unnecessary entry of children and young people into Out of Home Care (OOHC).

Our IFP team (Intensive Family Preservation) work to support vulnerable families who are at risk of further escalation in the child protection system because we believe that supporting families before a crisis improves family resilience and reduces harm to children.

We're looking for a creative, experienced, organised self-starters; someone as exceptional as the people we support to join us to provide assessment, crisis management, and casework as per the Homebuilders Model to families at high risk of having their children removed into care for protective concerns or who are having their children restored to their care.

About You

Tertiary level qualifications in Social Work, Psychology, social welfare or a related discipline.
Demonstrated case management experience with at risk children and their families.
Demonstrated understanding of child protection issues and an ability to conduct risk and family assessments using a strengths based approach.
Demonstrated ability to work with families in crisis and work in partnership with them to achieve their goals, using a variety of evidence based intervention strategies.
Demonstrated experience in supporting Aboriginal families using culturally safe and sensitive interventions.
Commitment to ongoing training and development to ensure a broad range of evidencebased models as determined necessary by the program.
Current driving license.

About the benefits
As well as the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of others we are also offering:

Starting salary from $83,197 pa plus super and generous salary packaging options
Access to a range of employee benefits (U-Rewards program, flex time and additional week of annual leave over Christmas, Benestar Employee Assistance Program and the Uniting With Hearts Reward and Recognition Program)
Ongoing professional and personal development opportunities across our varied service streams.

Applications Close:
Tuesday, 25 April 2023