Child and Family Support Worker

2 weeks ago

South West Sydney, Australia Mission Australia Full time

Permanent | Part Time 3-4 days/week
- Salary: $41.55/hr - $44.31/hr + Super + Salary Packaging
- Location: Miller NSW 2168
- Make a meaningful difference to the lives of Australians in need

Life at Mission Australia

When you join the team at Mission Australia, you become part of a community who are determined to end homelessness and ensure people in need can thrive. United by our Christian purpose and values, we stand together with anyone who needs us, for as long as they need us. Find out more

about us

and

our purpose


Your Opportunity

The Child & Family Support Worker will deliver psychological services to children aged 3-12 years in the South West Sydney Primary Health Network’s (SWSPHN) STAR4Kids (Supporting Them to Achieve Resilience) Program. This includes, but is not limited to, face to face counselling, assessments and delivery of tailored group programs to build the resilience and capacity of children and their parents/carers that foster mental health and wellbeing.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

- Provide a range of therapeutic modalities appropriate to children (aged from 3-12 years)
- Deliver psycho-social education to parents/carers’ in support of child mental health intervention
- Schedule and conduct collaborative and client driven counselling session/s with whole families or individuals
- Client and program data collected and input into designated client information management systems
- Participate in stakeholder forums as appropriate to support the delivery of the Program and client needs including care planning and reporting
- Conduct initial risk assessments of families/children to ensure it is safe to go ahead with the relationship. If deemed unsafe refer the family to other suitable support services.

Requirements for Success
- Skills and competence in a range of therapeutic modalities appropriate to children
- Ability to administer a range of assessments of children experiencing or at risk of developing a mental health disorder (e.g. cognitive-functioning, behavioural, and emotional)
- Experience in working with families within a systemic practice model
- Experience in developing effective working relationships with a range of service stakeholders across service sectors (e.g. government, non-government, and private sector)
- Demonstrated engagement in structured clinical supervision (ongoing)
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills
- Highly developed written and interpersonal communication skills
- High level of computer literacy
- Capacity to work independently and manage multiple priorities
- A willingness to join a child’s world and not be deterred by matters that are sensitive in nature

Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a national police history check, qualifications, and referee checks, and have a clearance to work with children/vulnerable people.

Our culture

Our innovative and inclusive culture will ensure you feel valued at Mission Australia as you help Australians in need and develop in your career.

We prioritize the safety and wellbeing of everyone, both within our team and the individuals we serve.

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Your benefits
- Rewarding work - every day you know you’re making a real difference
- Not-for-profit salary packaging, reducing your tax (details via
- AccessPay
- Free external, confidential counselling and access to
- chaplaincy support
- Volunteering opportunities
- Extra leave available including an additional public holiday, additional annual leave day on your work anniversary and the opportunity to purchase further annual leave.

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