Child Specialist Case Manager

4 weeks ago

Dulwich Hill, Australia The Salvation Army Full time

Number of Positions Available:

1

- Start your career with The Salvation Army today

- We are looking for compassionate people who share our mission and values, if you have the passion and drive to commit yourself to a challenging and rewarding role; we invite you to review our current vacancies.

- ABOUT US

- The Salvation Army is one of Australia’s largest and most-loved charities, helping thousands of Australians every year find hope in the midst of all kinds of personal hardship. The Salvation Army offers the opportunity to use your professional skills and expertise to make a real difference in the lives of people who need help most.
Why this role matters

The Salvation Army Youth Services offer an integrated suite of programs engaging with young people across Australia. Our services create intentional avenues for young people to explore opportunities, build support networks, and access, participate and contribute to their communities. Youth services provide a diverse range of programs which include housing and homelessness, driver training, education, employment, and training, AOD support, social and community activities, specialist therapeutic responses and youth justice programs.

About the role

This position is responsible for the coordination of a high quality, integrated assessment and response program for children and young people within the TSA Family Violence Services (FVS). This specialist role is designed to:

- Coordinate the delivery of specialist high quality child focussed interventions and group work to infants, children and their mothers
- Provide specialist child-focussed education and authoritative direction to staff to ensure child focussed practice is performed to meet the needs of infants, children and their mothers accessing FVS programs.
- Provide specialist support to children 0-18 and mothers who have experienced family violence
- Ensure that FVS addresses the unique risks posed by FV to children
- Ensure that FVS seeks to enhance child well-being.
- Work collaboratively with team members and external service providers to provide an integrated continuum of support to children.

You will successfully
- Providing therapeutic intervention support for children (including group work)
- Engaging children, through play assessing for development and cognitive milestones and referring as appropriate to therapeutic supports, to reduce the impact of family violence related trauma (eg. Home visits with case managers to assist with mother’s intake/assessment and case planning processes)
- Engaging with mothers and children to conduct child specific risk assessment and risk management
- Providing secondary consults and authoritative direction to staff regarding children with particular focus on risk and trauma
- Holding space for the child’s voice as appropriate with regards to Family Law and Child Protection
- Providing information and resources to families that is relevant, accurate, up to date and easy to understand.
- Coordinating with case managers and other relevant staff the referral of mothers and their children to appropriate services where required
- Assisting case managers in developing child centred case plans and family case plans and referrals
- Providing ongoing education and training to staff that is child focussed, including strategies to rebuild the mother child bond.
- Recommending engagement techniques for infants, children and young people.
- Advocacy and capacity building of mainstream services in identifying and responding to children affected by FV

This is a full-time, permanent position located in Dulwich Hill, NSW. Salary and conditions are in accordance with the Social, Community, Home Care & Disability Services Awd Lvl 5.

You will have
- Degree qualification in social work, welfare (social sciences), community development or related field
- Be a member and registered with a relevant accredited peak body (AASW, APS, ACA etc)
- Experience in service delivery with children and families who have experienced trauma
- Experience with women and children who have experienced family violence.
- Strong history of working with children and families from diverse backgrounds and with a complex range of support needs.
- Relevant child protection requirements are obtained for example Working with children check.
- A national police record check is required
- We are committed to providing a safe environment for our people. Please note that The Salvation Army has a mandatory vaccination procedure._

What we offer
- Flexible working conditions
- (Maybe eligible to) NFP salary packaging ($15,900 tax free) plus meals and entertainment benefits
- Employee Assistance Program - Independent confidential counselling service
- Financial, retail and lifestyle discounts and benefits
- Discounted health and fitness programs through Fitness Passport
- Up to 8 weeks leave per year through our purchase leave scheme
- Generous Parental Leave offering of 12 weeks
- Up to 5 days paid le

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