Youth Caseworker

**About the role**:
This is a full-time 6-month contract opportunity located in Wyong NSW. Starting base annual salary of $79,823 to $87,169 negotiable based on experience, plus super, plus access to generous salary packaging options.
**About Uniting**:
When you’re part of Uniting NSW.ACT, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who are really making a difference to the world around them.
We contribute to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people through all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.
Uniting leaders and employees work together to create a culture that is safe, inclusive and person-centred. We bring this to life every day through our values: compassionate, respectful, imaginative and bold.
Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to all Elders - past, present, and emerging - and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work.
Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.
**About the opportunity**:
Uniting is currently seeking a Family Caseworker to join our Reconnecting Adolescents and Parents Team (RAPT) on the Central Coast - someone who wants to be more than just a caseworker. We’re looking for a changemaker. A bridge-builder. A fierce advocate for young people and their families.
Every day, young people across our community are facing family breakdowns, homelessness, and disconnection. In this role, you’ll provide early intervention support families with young people aged 10-18 years within the home, or wishing to return home. You will support families to build connection, nurture independence, and reconnect families with understanding, dignity, and hope.
**You’ll support young people to**:

- Stay connected to school or training
- Rebuild fractured family relationships
- Find meaningful community connections

**You’ll support parents**:

- Understand adolescent brain development
- Create safe boundaries within the home
- Enhance connection within the family

Your Qualifications & Experience
- Diploma of Community Services or related field
- 2 + years’ experience supporting vulnerable, at-risk youth and families
- Skills is case management, conflict resolution, and group facilitation
- Strong communication and advocacy skills
- Current driver’s licence and current NSW WWCC

Benefits and culture
Working to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice brings its own rewards, but there’s more.
- Welcoming you exactly as you are
- Starting base annual salary of $79,823 to $87,169 negotiable based on experience plus super
- Access to generous salary packaging options as well as access to Uniting’s URewards retail partner program.
- Wellbeing programs and access to fitness passport
- Career development opportunities such as training, education.
- Amazing workplace culture

**Closing date**: 11:55pm, Sunday 13th July 2025