Job description
- Leading community services organisation
- Salary packaging and competitive sector remuneration
- Full time – Ongoing
- Office based role
About the opportunity
Take this great opportunity to make a real difference to children’s wellbeing through connectedness to family. The Enhanced Therapeutic Contact Service (ETCS) is a unique program that works closely with families to help strengthen relationships and ensure children’s experience of contact visits is meaningful, safe, and enjoyable.
As a Keyworker you will support and supervise court ordered contact visits for children living in Out of Home Care, creating a stable, predictable, and safe environment to enhance the quality of contact visits. Making slime, playing cricket, or providing psychoeducation on child development, team members employ a multitude of skills to actively and creatively support parents to meet their child’s needs. ETCS advocates for children, provides role modelling, coaching, parenting education, and plans contact experiences to achieve agreed goals including reunification, unsupervised visits, or alternate means of supervision.
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What’s on offer
Join an organisation where we don’t just provide a service. We use our connections, our size, our scale, and our knowledge to push into places where we feel like we should be doing more.
In addition to a salary and superannuation, you’ll also receive 17.5% leave loading and access to the full $15,900 salary packaging benefits. We also offer paid parental leave to employees (10 weeks for primary carers and 2 weeks for secondary carers).
About you
To be successful in your application you will meet the Core Selection Criteria outlined in the person specification in the position description, including having a tertiary qualification in social work, psychology, or a related discipline.
You will also have:
- A commitment to provide safe environments for children and young people and protect them from abuse and neglect
- Ability to work collaboratively with families to identify and achieve shared goals
- Experience in applying relevant theoretical approaches and goal-oriented interventions with children and their families where there is a history of abuse and trauma
- Demonstrated knowledge of practices to engage and ensure the cultural safety of clients from a diverse range of backgrounds
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to engage effectively with a variety of age groups, cultures, and language groups
How to apply
Apply today by uploading the following as part of your application and we’ll be in touch shortly:
- Cover letter (outlining your suitability according to the Core Selection Criteria described in the position description)
- Current resume
Applications will be assessed as they come through as we’re keen to engage with someone.
Get in touch
If you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact Deborah Osmand – Team Leader, ETCS on (03) 9051 5965.
About Uniting
At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.
Visit us: unitingvictas.org.au
Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and relevant Working with Children Check in your State prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.
Uniting is also committed to equal opportunity and ensuring the workplace is reflective of the community. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability.
