Social Worker

**About the School**:
Dakabin State High School is a large secondary school situated in Dakabin, Queensland, committed to providing safe, inclusive and supportive environments for all students. We are a co-educational school of approximately 1000 students. The school was established in 1978 and is located on the northern side of Brisbane approximately 30 kilometres from the CBD.Your Role:
**Your role would include**:

- Providing Social Work services to all students within the school and collaborating on a larger scale with the Student Wellbeing Team.
- Case Management of students triaged by the Guidance Officers.
- Working with the Indigenous Community with regards to organisation of Indigenous Events within the school and liaising and supporting our Indigenous families.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Respond to the needs of the student population and school community to provide personal and family counselling, therapy and group work, facilitation of referrals to other allied health professionals, and service and care coordination for the purpose of assisting student's wellbeing and mental health.
- Undertake the day to day collaboration with the Student Wellbeing Team regarding reactive and proactive support to the students of Dakabin State High School.
- Co-ordinate the creation and maintenance of procedures and documentation relating to Indigenous support and achievement of school targets.
- Operate in an advisory and advocacy capacity providing services specific to the social work discipline.

**About You**:
This role requires an applicant with high communication and collaboration skills. Also, requires applicant to be able to liaise with staff regarding Indigenous students and requirements for them at a social and academic level.

**Benefits**:
Our School is a medium sized high school where due to cohort sizes, allows the ability of staff to have interactions with students that benefit both the staff member and the student.
**Mandatory Requirements for and Identified Role**:  
It is a genuine occupational requirement for Identified roles that the position be filled by an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander person as set out in Section 7 of the Anti Discrimination Act 1991 for the purposes contained in Section 25 of that Act. 
Verification of Aboriginality and/or Torres Strait Island heritage 
For administrative purposes, in relation to an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identified role, an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person is a person who identifies as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person and is either:  
- of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent;
- accepted as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person by the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community in which he or she lives. 

By definition a person who is not an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cannot be employed (on any basis) to perform the duties of an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identified role. 
Applicants to this position may have to provide confirmation of their Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage. Requesting proof of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage from applicants helps to make sure that this intention is honoured.

**Interested? To Apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
- Attach a 2-page response to the How you will/may be assessed section of the attached role description.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.