Taikurtirna Warri-apinthi Practitioner

**Department for Child Protection**
**Job reference**: 620776
**Location**: 5000 - ADELAIDE
**Job status**: Long Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone

**Please disregard the 'Open to Everyone', this position is only open to applicants of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent only pursuant to Section 56 (2) of the Equal Opportunity Act, 1984**

**Role Status**: Multiple Full-Time Term Vacancies Available for Durations of up to 6 or 12 Months
**Remuneration**: AHP1 ($68,478 - $83,594 p.a.) / AHP2 ($88,255 - $102,240 p.a.) +11.5% Superannuation

**Role Details**

The Department for Child Protection is seeking multiple **Taikurtirna Warri-apinthi Practitioners** to join the Aboriginal Practice Team on a full-time term basis.

The role is responsible for:

- Establishing meaningful, supportive and strong relationships for Aboriginal children and young people by way of engaging family, collaboration and participation.
- Developing a work plan to engage and prepare family networks and identifying supports and wraparound services that may be needed.
- Ensuring Aboriginal children and young people remain connected to their families, community, country, culture and identity.
- Providing culturally appropriate and relevant information in relation to identified needs for DCP staff to contribute to prevention and intervention plans.
- Building and maintaining a lifetime family support network for Aboriginal children and young people, whilst ensuring child safety.

**About You**

We are looking for a confident individual who has excellent communication skills and the ability to establish meaningful, supportive and strong relationships by maintaining formal and informal networks and partnerships with Aboriginal people through their kinship systems.

To be successful in this role you will have the ability to identify and respond to needs and risks to safety, wellbeing and development of children and young people. This will be supported by a demonstrated knowledge and understanding of children and young people in regards to development stages, vulnerability and resilience.

You will also have the capability to understand the context of child development, parenting capacity, including family and environmental factors to identify the needs of an individual child or young person.

**About the Business**

The Department for Child Protection (DCP) plays a key role in the protection of children, young people and their families within South Australia. The department provides support to vulnerable children and young people to be safe, strong and connected.

**Special Conditions**

**Essential Qualifications**: A degree level qualification in Social Work which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.

To find out more about this role, including the **key selection criteria** and **special conditions**, please click on the attached role description.

To **apply** for this role, please click the 'apply' button to be re-directed to the DCP Career Portal.

**Applications close**: 25/09/2024 11:00 PM