Family Services Practitioner

3 weeks ago

Dandenong, Australia CatholicCare Victoria Full time

**EFT**
60 hours per fortnight, continuing position

**Location**
Dandenong

**Closing Date**
Sunday 2 April 2023

**Contact**
Renu Barnes | Manager, Family Services, Adoption and Permanent Care

The Family Services program at CatholicCare Victoria provides Department of Families, Fairness and Housing funded services to families and children in the community. The Family Services program provides a continuum of support to families in the community, ranging from supporting them in their parenting role, to working intensively with families under increased pressure.

Working as a Family Services Practitioner you will engage with children, young people and parents/caregivers in a child focused, empowering and meaningful way. You will work collaboratively and collectively with service providers. Providing delivery of rapid, flexible, culturally safe and intensive services when and where families need them are delivered alongside a care team approach.

**Specifically, in this role you will be responsible for**:

- Working with the Best Interest Case Practice Framework provide assessment and time limited case practice interventions that lead to improved outcomes for children which include safety and stability within families.
- Using a Care Team Approach, coordinate, facilitate and deliver a rapid, culturally safe, flexible and intensive service to children and their families.
- Developing goals, action plans and safety plans with families through direct work with individuals and groups as appropriate.
- Conducting Assessments in accordance with guidelines and within specified timelines.
- Keeping appropriate records including case note recording and statistical data.
- Participating in specific training and education relevant to the role as identified by the practitioner in consultation with the Supervisor.

**To be considered for this position, applicants require**:

- Tertiary qualifications in Social Work, Welfare or other relevant tertiary study.
- Demonstrated experience in case management working with vulnerable children and their families.
- Demonstrated experience working in or with Department of Families, Fairness and Housing Child Protection (or similar) highly desirable.
- Knowledge of relevant theories, intervention approaches and understanding of the causes of family breakdown, child safety and child development.
- An understanding of the impacts of trauma on children and adults and approaches for working effectively where trauma is featured.
- Knowledge of the Best Interest Case Practice Framework, MARAM framework and an understanding of goal setting and review and family safety planning.
- As a condition of employment, CatholicCare Victoria as an employer will collect, record and store vaccination information on employees where required in line with the Privacy Act. All CatholicCare Victoria workers are to be fully vaccinated (boosted), unless they are an Excepted Person for medical reasons. All applicants must therefore be able to comply with this requirement. This means that successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of their vaccination status to CatholicCare Victoria prior to commencement of employment._

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