Child Protection Specialist

5 days ago

Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia beBeeCrisis Full time $104,000 - $130,878
Family Preservation Caseworker

This is a full-time contract role responsible for providing culturally responsive child and family assessments, intensive home visiting, crisis management, and casework to prevent unnecessary entry of children and young people into Out of Home Care (OOHC).


Our Approach

We believe that supporting families before a crisis improves family resilience and reduces harm to children.


Key Responsibilities
  • Providing planning support and structure for the safety of children and young people and taking appropriate action where the safety of the child or young person is at risk.
  • Assessing families' strength and needs using approved assessment tools.
  • Assisting families to formulate and achieve goals that are child-focused and address the safety and well-being of children.
  • Facilitating the development and implementation of case plans with families.
  • Participating in an on-call roster.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will require:

  • Tertiary level qualifications in Social Work, Psychology, social welfare, or a related discipline.
  • Demonstrated case management experience with at-risk children and their families.
  • Demonstrated understanding of child protection issues and an ability to conduct risk and family assessments using a strengths-based approach.
  • Demonstrated ability to work with families in crisis and work in partnership with them to achieve their goals, using a variety of evidence-based intervention strategies.
  • Commitment to ongoing training and development to ensure a broad range of evidence-based models as determined necessary by the program.
  • Current NSW Working With Children's check.
  • Current driving license.

Benefits Package

You will have access to:

  • An attractive annual salary plus super with optional salary packaging available.
  • 35 hour working week (part-time option considered).
  • 4 weeks annual leave and 1 week ex gratia leave at Christmas.
  • Ongoing training & development.

Uniting values diversity and welcomes staff from all backgrounds. We celebrate our diverse workforce and promote equality and inclusion in the workplace.

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