Family Support Practitioner

**Introduction**:
**About us**:
ATSICHS Brisbane is a not-for-profit community-owned health and human services organization delivering on the unique health and wellbeing needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in greater Brisbane and Logan. We pride ourselves on providing health and human services, our way - supporting our people and community in our commitment to creating a flourishing future and lasting legacy for them and their families.

**Description**:
About the Role

The FWS Family Support Practitioner will work with families in partnership to empower and build their agency to make effective change and overcome their identified family challenges. The role is heavily outreach based, engaging families in their homes, and translating initial engagement into a strong ongoing partnership. Once engaged, the role will not identify the family issues in a practitioner-led assessment, rather deliver interventions that build family awareness and insight into their history and current family challenges in order for families to self-identify their key challenges and lead their own change.

Duties
- Build the parenting capability, skills and knowledge that promote flourishing child rearing
- Facilitate imbedding structured family routines that improve household management, healthy eating and quality family time
- Improving parental management of stress and personal wellbeing, including coordinating access to ATSICHS Mental Health Service (Social Health Team).
- Ensuring all children meet developmental milestones by facilitating family access to ATSICHS paediatric/Mums and Bubs medical services, including access to specialist allied health supports
- Improving financial health of families by achieving meaningful employment and/or training
- Improving school attendance and educational engagement of parents
- Enrolment in Kindergarten and family participation in early years playgroups
- Securing family safety
- Improving stable housing and family ability to maintain a tenancy
- Reducing AOD substance misuse
- Improving family health by coordinating to ATSICHS medical clinics for annual preventative health assessment
- Improving family dental care by coordinating to ATSICHS dental clinics for annual preventative dental check-up.

Culture

We are a diverse, ambitious team excited about what we do. We value integrity, excellence, transparency, and accountability. We work as a team to make our customers and ourselves successful.

**Benefits**:
Attractive annually salary package and negotiation based on skills/experience

Relaxed dress code

Perks and Bonuses

Salary Sacrifice Options - pay less tax

COVID-19 Requirement

Your immunization history as listed on the Australian Immunization Register (AIR) clearly shows at least 2 doses of COVID-19 vaccination details.

**Skills and Experiences**:
Required

**Qualification and/or Experience**:

- Current Bachelor’s Degree, in Social Work, Human Services, Social Science, Health, Allied Health, Youth Work, Community Services, Family Intervention or Criminology with 2 years’ relevant experience in social services field

OR
- Current Diploma in Community Services, Social Work, Human Services, Child and Family, Allied Health, Youth Work, Child and Family Intervention with 3 years’ relevant experience in social service field

AND

With at least 1 year of abovementioned experience in a case management role

**Additional Requirements**:
Requirement to travel across the Logan and/or Brisbane region, as per program location.
Current drivelicenseence
Working with Children’s Card (Blue Card) or be eligible to apply
Disability worker Screening (Yellow Card) or be eligible to apply