Family Support Practitioner
1 week ago
Join our team as we prepare to reopen Very Special Kids House:
Multiple roles available to suit your availability:
Hybrid and flexible working arrangements available:
$48.53 per hour, plus NFP salary packaging
At Very Special Kids, we nurture and foster a culture where our team is empowered, supported and safe through the process of caring for children and families.
As part of our diverse, expert team you will have access to education and training to enhance your personal and professional development; expert specialist resources; hybrid working models and the well-being support you need to make a bigger impact in the lives of children and their families.
Very Special Kids House and head office is located at our Malvern site.Our new state-of-the-art hospice (including hydrotherapy pool) will be a world class facility to support the complex needs of the children and young people in our care.
Our current vacancies will provide support for families in the Gippsland, Outer Eastern Suburbs and Peninsula regions as well as support for families throughout other parts of inner and outer metro Melbourne.
Our services are delivered in person, over the phone and or through telehealth outreach.About Very Special Kids:
At Very Special Kids, we believe that all children and young people have the right to a quality of life, no matter how long or short their life may be.
We are a highly respected organisation with circa 100 employees and over 950 volunteers who provide essential, free-of-charge, palliative care services for children and young people living with a life-liming condition.
Very Special Kids provides specialist services for the whole family, including counselling, peer support, bereavement support and respite and end of life care at Victoria's only hospice for children and young people.
The successful applicants will have:
- Tertiary qualifications in social work, psychology, or equivalent.
- Direct significant experience working with children and families in grief and bereavement, family services, or the general health field required.
- Demonstrated ability to provide trauma informed therapeutic intervention, including formal counselling and emotional support to one or more family members, including children and young people.
- Demonstrated ability to undertake psychosocial assessment and develop, implement, and review level of support required to meet the changing needs of families.
- A genuine interest and commitment to working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, LGBTIQ, refugee and culturally diverse families and communities, and other higher risk cohorts.
- Proven program implementation skills including service planning, evaluation and impact, and quality improvement activities.
- Flexibility to work independently and part of a larger team of practitioners.
- Bilingual will be highly regarded.
- A commitment to the purpose, values, and philosophy of Very Special Kids.
- A commitment to upholding the Victorian Child Safe standards.
- Current driver's licence and willingness to travel.
Very Special Kids offers its employees a unique and rewarding environment including a supportive team, beautiful setting conveniently located to shops, parking and transport in Malvern, salary packaging, health & wellbeing initiatives, and targeted individual development plans.
We continually seek to employ people of any gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, with a disability, Aboriginal Australians and varied cultural backgrounds.
Click here for position description.
- Very Special Kids is committed to providing a childsafe environment and requires all staff to have Working with Children Check, Police Record Checks and evidence to demonstrate vaccination against COVID19._
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