Team Leader Kinship Care

Work for a not for profit organisation that celebrates all cultures, diversity and inclusion
- Be an innovative leader in the Kinship Care program
- Supportive working environment with regular supervision

Berry Street is one of the largest independent agencies within Australia, providing diverse programs to over 35,000 young people, children and families across Victoria each year. We pride ourselves on our ingenuity, evidence based and multi-dimensional thinking to provide the best outcomes for our young people.

We believe children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful and strive to make this happen each day
- ** Morwell location on Gunaikurnai Country**:

- ** Full time, Permanent role**:

- **$119k + Super + $10,500**:

- **Motor Vehicle Allowance & Salary Packaging**

**The Opportunity**

Berry Street provides kinship care services to children and their families in the Gippsland region. Kinship Care is the care provided to a child or sibling group by their extended family or friends when they are unable to be cared for by their own parents.

This kinship program provides case management and case work service to statutory kinship care placements to support and assist kinship carers to provide the best possible care to children living in kinship care.

**Key Responsibilities**

The Team Leader takes primary responsibility for the delivery of the service undertaken by the Kinship Care team, including contract compliance, program performance and continuous quality improvement. The role will provide supervision, monitor the workloads and individual performance of a team of Case Managers and may hold a small case load from time to time if required.

**About You**

You will have a sophisticated understanding of the inter-generational factors and the complexity of the kinship care service system including issues involved in providing services to statutory clients, engaging effectively with individuals and families that may be unwilling to receive services, and inter-relationships between extended family members that can promote and impede their capacity to collaboratively provide good care of a child.

Experience providing supervision and the ability to make timely, sound decisions about interventions required, and consult for the purposes of assessment and decision-making in the best interests of the children is a requirement of this role.

To be considered for this role you must have a Bachelor qualification in Social Work, Youth Work, Psychology or another relevant field and experience engaging with high risk adolescents and their families.

**The Benefits**
- Access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), including access for staff members’ immediate family.
- A culture that values and support professional development
- $15,900.00 pa Salary Packaging + Additional Salary Packaging for meals/accommodation
- 17.5% leave loading
- 10 weeks paid parental leave

**How to Apply**

Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position to be submitted by **5pm Monday 21 July 2025**

Queries to **Holly Ames - Home Based Care Senior Manager on 0409 441 709**
- Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTQIA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion._
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply._