Job description
- Part-time 4 days/week Parental Leave role until June 2025
- SCHADS Level 6
- Based at our Epping office
Your role:
The Senior Family Services Practitioner role involves the provision of an in-home family casework service, working in partnership with families with the aim of strengthening parenting capacity and family resilience. The work involves taking steps to reduce risks to children’s safety and wellbeing and that of other family members, as well as working with families to empower them to enhance their parenting capacity and family functioning and therefore to improve outcomes for children. An additional component of the role is to support the Team Leader in ensuring program objectives and policies are adhered to and in promoting a learning and supportive workplace culture.
The skills you will use day to day:
- A good understanding of the social context of child abuse and neglect and experience in applying relevant theoretical approaches to deliver outcomes.
- Conduct risk and needs assessments using relevant and contemporary frameworks, theory, and practice models.
- Case recording, data collection, registration standards and other requirements
- Partner with the family and the care team to develop and review action plans aimed at improving outcomes.
- Active engagement of vulnerable children, youth and families and delivering a range of interventions to improve their outcomes
- Skills in case management, including developing linkages to appropriate community services
Ready to take the next step:
For a Detailed Position Description please take a look here: Senior Family Services Practitioner PD.
To apply for this position you need to do is click ‘Apply Now’ and attach a resume and a brief cover letter that describes your motivation to apply.
The advert is only meant to be an overview, for all the details on what makes this such a great opportunity or to ask questions contact Jan Pfeiffer on 0408 053 196.
Please Note: It is mandatory for the successful applicant to hold a current Working with Children Check and be prepared to undergo a National Criminal History Check prior to commencement.
Anglicare Victoria acknowledges Aboriginal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we operate. We commit to working respectfully to honour their ongoing cultural and spiritual connections to this country.
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