Child & Family Practitioners

**Job no**: 504593
**Employment type**: Full Time
**Location**: Brisbane
**Categories**: Child, Youth & Family
- **Up to $15,900 annual salary sacrifice**:

- **$2600 annual meal & entertainment card**:

- **TOT (vehicle) allowance**:

- **Flexible working hours, including work from home possibilities**:

- **Work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations**

**About the Organisation**

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

**About the Roles**

The purpose of the Child and Family Practitioner position is to provide a high level of skilled support and supervision to the placement of children and young people in a family-based care arrangement.

This positions being offered are **Full-time Permanent opportunities**based in our **Milton**office.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Undertake child focused casework practice (case planning and assessment) in partnership with the relevant government agency, children and their families, carers and other stakeholders.
- Provide ongoing support and supervision to Foster Carers in relation to their caring for children and young people in their home.
- Provide support and supervision to Carers by telephone as well as through home visits.
- Support and supervise Foster Carers in the case planning process and assist them to implement the strategies outlined in the case plan.
- Provide supervision and support to direct reports.
- Ensure the necessary risk assessments, cultural support plans, safety plans and behavioural support plans are developed and implemented.
- Ensure all necessary documentation and information such as carer renewals, foster care agreements, file notes and other records are kept up to date, including inputting information into the CIRTS database.

**Skills and Experience**
- A recognised Degree qualification in Social Work or Psychology or related field
- Significant experience in the child protection and out of home care sector
- Demonstrated experience working with individuals, families and communities from a strength-based, culturally appropriate perspective that are part of the out of home care sector
- Demonstrated experience in identifying an individual’s strengths and areas for improvement within the context of providing foster and/or host care with an emphasis on permanency for children in care
- Current Drivers Licence

**Benefits**
- TOT (vehicle) allowance
- An attractive remuneration package will be offered to the successful applicant, including a mobile phone and a laptop.
- Salary packaging tax benefits, meal entertainment benefit, novated leasing and more.
- Growing organisation with great career opportunities.
- Monthly RDO.

**How to Apply**

**Advertised**: 30 Jan 2025 E. Australia Standard Time
**Applications close**: 09 Feb 2025 23:55 E. Australia Standard Time