Specialiast Children's Trauma Practitioner

Specialiast Children's Trauma PractitionerSpecialiast Children's Trauma Practitioner

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• SCHCADS Level 6, $108,515.60 pro rata (plus super and salary packaging)
  
  

Job Description

About the role

• Permanent Part time (0.9 FTE)
• Based in Hastings
• SCHCADS Level 6, $108,515.60 pro rata (plus super and salary packaging)
  
  

Role Purpose

The Specialist Children's Trauma Practitioner will bring specialist children's trauma knowledge and expertise within the Bayside Peninsula Integrated Family Services (IFS) team to support and promote children, young people and families to develop, maintain and strengthen the safety, stability and wellbeing of children, young people and their families.

The Specialist Children's Trauma Practitioner will also support families to understand trauma and achieve healing and recovery through evidence-based practice frameworks and models that address the impact of children's trauma.

Support will be strength based, child centred, family focused, goal oriented, attachment focused, trauma informed, developmentally appropriate and culturally sensitive.

This role will support and mentor Family Services Practitioners to build capability across the team in relation to the signs, symptoms and behaviours of children who have experienced trauma. The role will work with the family service team to develop responses and plans that best support children and their families.

The Specialist Children's Trauma Practitioner is underpinned by the MARAM framework, Child Information Sharing scheme and the Family Violence Information Sharing scheme, the Best Interest Principles Legislation as outlined in the Children's Youth and Families Act 2005, Roadmap for Reform and the Best Interest Case Management model.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide specialist expertise and knowledge to the family services team in relation to children's trauma
• To guide and support best practice within the family services team in relation to children's trauma
• To carry a case load of eight to ten families who need supports and planning
• To undertake comprehensive MARAM assessments and share information as required to ensure women and children's safety and planning and support
• Knowledge of evidence-based trauma informed practice for children who have experience trauma
  
  

About you

• A tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, and a post-Graduate qualification in Children's trauma
• Minimum 5 years' experience in the family services sector including experience working with children and families who have experienced complex trauma
• Eligible for membership of relevant professional association ie. AASW
• A satisfactory Police Check
• A current Working with Children's Check (WWCC)
• A current Drivers License
• Proof of the right to work in Australia
  
  

Key Selection Criteria

• Demonstrated commitment to social justice and social inclusion principles.
• A relevant tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, and a post-Graduate qualification in Children's trauma
• Demonstrated understand and knowledge of complex children's trauma and its effects and impacts
• Demonstrated case management and case work experience, and relevant training, in working with Children and families who have experienced trauma.
• Demonstrated experience working from a competency/strengths-based, trauma informed framework with children and families presenting with complex needs
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of working within the Best Interest Principles, MARAM framework and information sharing schemes
• Excellent Organisational, interpersonal and communication skills
  
  

About Us

Our 2023-2027 strategy outlines the world we want to see and our role in advancing it. We aspire for all women, girls, and families to be safe, well, strong, and connected. We strive for equity, dignity and social justice for women, girls and families by collaborating globally and acting locally, supporting our communities in Australia and New Zealand to thrive.

We want women, girls and families to live full and dignified lives, have dignified income and enjoy financial wellbeing. We aim to provide place-based, people-centred, holistic services while working at the system level to achieve bold and audacious reform. We currently offer microfinance programs and products, financial counselling and coaching, family and domestic violence support services, family and youth programs, playgroups, education programs and community houses. These services are complemented by research and strong advocacy to address the underlying structural causes of injustice, exclusion, and inequality.

Good Shepherd employees are committed to inclusive practice that responds to the specific needs, context, and circumstances of service participants. We embrace the diversity and intersectionality of individuals and recognise a person's right to a unique identity comprising culture, language, ability, community, gender, sex, sexual orientation and lived experience.

Benefits

• Salary packaging (which can add up to $15,900 in tax-free pay per year)
• Paid study leave
• Paid parental leave
• Gifted leave at Christmas and Easter
• Employee Assistance Program, a free and confidential counselling service
• & more
  
  

How to apply

Please click 'Apply Now' to complete your application. Please upload your resume and a brief cover letter addressing the key selection criteria. Please apply as soon as possible, applications are considered as they are received.

Personal data held by Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.

We recognise the rich diversity of people across Australia. We are committed to ensuring that our team is reflective of the diverse community we serve and to supporting a culture of equity, inclusion and diversity.

Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand is a Child Safe employer. Employment is subject to satisfactory referee checks, a current employment working with Children Check, National Criminal History check and proof of the right to work in Australia.Seniority level

• Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment typePart-time

Job function

• Job functionHealth Care Provider
• IndustriesNon-profit Organization Management

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