Cyps Health Liaison Officer

3 days ago

Canberra, Australia ACT Government Full time

Child and Youth Protection Services (CYPS) has a statutory responsibility to support children, young people and families requiring a care or justice response. CYPS works in partnership with families, carers and community agencies to ensure children and young people are safe and achieve the best possible life outcomes.

The functions of CYPS Practice and Performance include:

- Providing specialist support to CYPS Operations.
- Working across all functions to ensure best practices in service provision to children and young people.
- Ensuring quality practice system controls and continuous improvement including maintaining and updating the Integrated Management System (Knowledge Portal) and practice guidelines.
- Implementing audit and compliance programs.
- Liaising with the community and building working partnerships through Health, Education & community liaisons
- Providing independent case conferencing chair.
- Facilitation of Family Group Conferences.

This position operates in the context of the Out of Home Care (OOHC) Strategy, ‘Next Steps for our Kids’. The CYPP4 CYPS Liaison Officer role is focussed on improving coordination and collaboration between CYPS and the non-government OOHC providers on the one hand and ACT Health. The position will work in tandem with the ACT Health Liaison Officer providing support to agencies to improve processes between organisations. This will be achieved through projects and provision of information and support to ACT Health staff regarding CYPS policy, procedure, decision making and relevant legislation.

**Eligibility/Other requirements**:
**Essential qualifications and experience**:

- Relevant tertiary qualifications e.g. in Social Work, Psychology, Education or an allied health position (speech therapist, occupational therapist)
- At least 5 years practice experience working with children, young people and their carers or families.
- Current Driver’s Licence

**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**
- Educational, suitability and professional qualification checks may be carried out prior to employment.

**How to Apply**:Please submit your written response of no more than two pages to the Position Requirements (Selection Criteria) in the attached Position Description, a current curriculum vitae, and details of two referees.

**_ Applications should be sent to the Contact Officer._**

**Note**:
This is a temporary position available immediately for three months.

**Career interest categories**:
Administration and Governance
Community Support and Inclusion

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