Case Manager/practitioner Foster

2 days ago

Underwood, Australia Anglicare Southern Queensland Full time

Full-time 12 month contract with access to Salary packaging options
- Flexible work options
- Be part of a great team who value the work you do and are fun to be around.

**Anglicare** Southern Queensland supports a variety of initiatives aimed at helping children and young people, who are not able to live with their own family, the opportunity to live in a safe nurturing family environment.

Due to a long standing staff member taking some well-earned extended leave, we are looking for someone to join our Foster and Kinship Team for 12 months full-time fixed term contract in the Case Manager/Practitioner role.

We are looking for someone with strong interpersonal skills and abilities to complete the following:
Recruitment
- Respond to enquiry’s from community members interested in foster care & supporting them through the process of becoming a foster carer
- Complete initial interviews with EOI’s - framework for assessing risk required
- Organisation and facilitation of training - experience preferred
- Case noting and administration - requires strong organisational & time management skills
- Networking / liaising with Anglicare’s marketing department / external assessors / Child Safety
- Quality assurance of assessment documents
- Completing monthly reporting requirements

Intake
- Demonstrated experience in liaising with stakeholders (placement services unit) & carer families to achieve placement matching & suitability
- Work collaboratively with the wider team to manage internal placement requests / carer availability
- Placement matching of available foster carers vs children requiring placements
- Use of Child Safety’s UNIFY child referral system to respond to all referrals - experience preferred

**Additionally you will require**:

- Tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, Social or Behavioural Sciences or similar field
- Previous experience working with Carers including training, recruitment, and onboarding of new carers.
- Demonstrated experience in assessing complex and extreme needs of children & developing and implementing individualised care plans, including in-home support
- An understanding and knowledge of child protection (Children Protection Act)
- Demonstrated experience in training and facilitation of support groups
- Ability to operate within child-centred frameworks within a family-focused network.
- Completion of complex documentation on time and within required guidelines
- Current Blue Card (Working with Children) or willingness to obtain
- Current Licensed Care Service (LCS)
- Current Queensland Drivers Licence
- Current COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate

**What We Offer**
- Salary Packaging, package up to $15,900 per year tax free
- In addition to your tax-free benefit, you can also use up to $2,650 of your pre-tax income to pay for entertainment expenses
- Purchase extra Leave
- ALEX Learning and Development Program
- Employee Assistance Program - Lifeworks
- Significant and ongoing learning, to create genuine career growth and development plans
- Staff Spiritual Retreat twice a year
- An employee benefits program that includes awesome retail discounts.

Applications close 9 September.

Shortlisted applicants will be asked to complete a Pre-Employment Assessment that requires disclosure of pre-existing injuries, illnesses or conditions that could reasonably be aggravated by performing the duties of this position

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