Pathways Practitioner

**Department of Human Services**
**Job reference**: 601377

**Location**: 5098 - INGLE FARM

**Job status**: Long Term Contract

**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone

**Role Highlights**
- Access excellent learning and development opportunities
- Flexible working arrangements available
- Provide a range of services to promote wellbeing of young people

**About the Business**

Our Safer Family Services team delivers a range of services, including intensive family support, to help children stay safely with their families and avoid the need for out-of-home care. They also help families with parenting support, workshops and connection to community events initiatives to improve child safety and wellbeing.
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**Role Details**
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The Pathways Practitioner is accountable to the Supervisor, CFSS Pathways for:

- Providing efficient and quality initial assessment for the purposes of triaging from the centralised referral line for key stakeholders.
- Strengthening communication and understanding between key stakeholders for timely and effective service responses to meeting the needs of vulnerable and at-risk children and their families.
- Demonstrating effective initial assessment to respond to child protection risks, including family violence, and needs of vulnerable children from pre-birth through to 18 years old and their families.
- Promoting and developing partnerships with government and non-government support services, to identify and implement responses to mitigate child protection risk and improve safety for vulnerable children and their families.
- Creating opportunities to work in collaboration with other services to effectively link vulnerable children and families to relevant services.
- Identifying risk and assessing the needs of vulnerable children and families, planning and delivering focussed initial assessment for referrals (or case practice interventions including home visits if required) to safeguard children and young people within their families and communities to promote positive outcomes.

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**Special Conditions**
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National Police Check required.
Employment-related Screening Check required.
Some interstate and intrastate travel may be required.
Must hold a current Australian issued driver’s licence (equivalent to minimum class C).
Covid -19 - will be required to have had two COVID-19 vaccinations prior to engagement with DHS, unless it would be medically unsafe for the employee to do so, or they’re currently employed in the SA public sector and are not required to be vaccinated.
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**Essential Qualifications**

An appropriate Social Work qualification from a recognised tertiary institution giving eligibility for full membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers.

**Role Status**: Term up to 29/08/2025
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**Salary Range**: $86,950-$100,729 (AHP2)
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**Location**: Ingle Farm
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**Diversity and Inclusion**

DHS is committed to making our services and workplaces safe and inclusive for all people and ensuring the full diversity of the communities we serve are represented in our workforce, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability and/or neurodivergence, young people, older people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, LGBTIQA+ and gender diverse people.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. We also celebrate the many strengths and skills people with disability and/or neurodivergent people bring to our workplace and acknowledge our role in ensuring a supportive work environment for people with disability and/or neurodivergent people to thrive in.

**Applications close**: 20/06/2024 11:30 PM