Child Safety Officer

4 days ago

Ipswich, Australia Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs Full time

**Your contribution**:
Child Safety Officer (Specialist Health Liaison) takes a lead in meeting a child's safety and well-being needs:

- Where a child in the health system meets criteria for Child Safety intervention.
- Where a child in the child protection system is being discharged from a hospital or health service and requires support and case coordination prior to discharge.
- Where a child in the child protection system enters hospital and additional support is required to manage case coordination.
- During an investigation and assessment where it is determined that a child may require health-related supports

**Key duties and responsibilities**:
The Child Safety Officer (Specialist Health Liaison) key responsibilities are to:

- Lead care coordination in health assessments and service delivery for children and young people in care, ensuring that children have access to health assessments in line with the 'National Clinical Assessment Framework (NCAF) for children and young people in care'.
- Build and sustain strong collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders, including connections with Indigenous Health Services, that promote and support the integration and coordination of services and referral pathways to better meet the health needs of children and young people in contact with the child protection system.
- Demonstrate high level communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to identify gaps in service delivery to ensure children have access to health supports that meet their needs. This includes initiating health-related projects to meet regional need and priorities.
- Contribute to the implementation of departmental health-related policies, procedures and practices in a regional service delivery environment.
- Facilitate the delivery of relevant education and training for departmental staff and draw on relevant child protection practice experience to provide coaching and mentoring to less experienced Child Safety Officers, to support them to navigate the health care system and build their health literacy. They also provide education and / or training to Queensland Health Child Protection Unit staff to assist them to develop knowledge of child protection legislation, policies, procedures and framework for practice.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to mentor, develop and build the capacity of Child Safety staff to identify and address the health needs of children and families through the delivery of high quality, integrated, strengths-based child protection and health services.
- Participate and contribute to a culture of continuous learning, training and professional development to ensure practice knowledge and skills are contemporary and evidenced-based.
- Participate in multi-disciplinary case discussions to assist the coordination of support services for health-related matters or when a child is in hospital such as safety planning, discharge planning and coordination meetings. This also includes participation in case discussions relating to investigation and assessment processes and in practice panels where children have complex needs.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

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