Family Wellbeing Service Specialist

Introduction :

About ATSICHS Brisbane

ATSICHS Brisbane is a not-for-profit, community-owned health and human services organisation dedicated to addressing the unique health and wellbeing needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in greater Brisbane and Logan. We pride ourselves on delivering health and human services in our way—supporting our people and community to create a flourishing future and lasting legacy for them and their families.

ATSICHS Brisbane is a member of the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH).

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Description: About the Role

The Family Support Specialist will collaborate with families to empower them and build their capacity to make effective changes and overcome family challenges. The role is outreach-focused, engaging families in their homes and transforming initial engagement into a strong, ongoing partnership. Once engaged, the role will avoid practitioner-led assessments of family issues; instead, it will deliver interventions that increase family awareness and insight into their history and current challenges, enabling families to identify their key issues and lead their own change.

Duties

1. Build parenting capabilities, skills, and knowledge to promote positive child-rearing.
2. Facilitate structured family routines to improve household management, healthy eating, and quality family time.
3. Support parental stress management and personal wellbeing, including coordinating access to ATSICHS Mental Health Services (Social Health Team).
4. Ensure children meet developmental milestones by facilitating access to ATSICHS paediatric and Mums and Bubs medical services, including specialist allied health supports.
5. Enhance family financial health by supporting meaningful employment and training opportunities.
6. Improve school attendance and educational engagement among parents.
7. Assist with Kindergarten enrolment and family participation in early childhood programs.
8. Ensure family safety.
9. Support stable housing and help families maintain tenancies.
10. Reduce substance misuse issues.
11. Promote family health through coordination of annual preventative health assessments at ATSICHS medical clinics.
12. Enhance family dental health via coordination of annual dental check-ups at ATSICHS dental clinics.

Culture

Enjoy working in an organisation that makes a difference in the community. Join our friendly and cooperative team that supports your personal and professional growth.

Benefits

• Permanent full-time position.
• Starting annual salary of $102,595 (dependent on qualifications and experience).
• 12% Superannuation + Not-for-Profit Salary Packaging (enhances your take-home pay).
• Work for a community-controlled organisation.

Skills and Experiences :

COVID-19 Requirement

• Immunisation history showing receipt of two COVID-19 vaccine doses is encouraged.

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Human Services, Social Science, Health, Allied Health, Youth Work, Community Services, Family Intervention, or Criminology with at least 4 years of relevant experience in family support, child protection, youth support, or related fields.
• Diploma in Community Services, Social Work, Human Services, Child and Family, Allied Health, Youth Work, or Child and Family Intervention with at least 5 years of relevant experience in similar fields.
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in a case management role within the above fields.
• Ability and comfort working in a performance-driven environment to meet individual and team targets.
• Proven ability to foster client agency, self-efficacy, and facilitate change through empowerment, while discouraging client dependence on supports.
• Knowledge and skills to provide behaviour change interventions that increase client self-awareness and goal achievement.
• Experience working with whole families to meet diverse needs.
• Ability to coordinate multiple services to provide holistic care, integrating internal agency supports across teams.
• Understanding of factors contributing to vulnerability, disengagement, and intergenerational trauma.
• Experience managing high-risk or crisis clients with strong planning and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of available supports in mental health, substance misuse education, employment, and housing sectors.

Additional Requirements

• Willingness to travel across Logan and Brisbane regions.
• Current driver's license.
• Flexibility to work outside standard hours to meet client needs.
• Working with Children's Card (Blue Card) or eligibility to apply.
• Valid police check.

How to apply

If this opportunity interests you, please submit your application via the links provided on the requirement page. Applications are assessed as received, with interviews conducted promptly, so apply without delay.

Only successful applicants will be contacted.