Child Protection Specialist

19 hours ago


Bendigo, Australia Department of Families, Fairness and Housing Full time

THE ROLE
ACCOUNTABILITIES INCLUDE
- Provide authoritative, strategic advice and professional expertise to key internal and external stakeholders on critical policy, funding, and program development.
- Collaboration - engages, consults, and co-designs solutions with children and their families, other practitioners and teams, agencies, services, and the community, in order to deliver the best outcomes for children and their families.
- Culturally informed practice and safety - understands and applies culturally informed practice that is focused on the child in the context of their family, in a way that considers situations, activities, decisions, and outcomes from the perspective of each stakeholder's cultural background.

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VACCINATION REQUIREMENTS POLICY
The department may require its employees to be fully vaccinated against preventable diseases such as the current coronavirus (COVID-19). The department's COVID-19 Vaccination requirements policy(Word) outlines the requirements for existing employees, other workplace participants and prospective employees. Please read in full prior to applying.
A SPECIAL MEASURE PROVISION APPLIES TO THIS ROLE
If you are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, we encourage you to please apply. You will be given priority consideration, as per the Special Measures provision of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010.
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