Case Manager

**Full time, 12-month contract position based in Melrose Park**:

- ** $86k - $92k inclusive of Super + Salary Packaging**:

- ** Flexible Friendly organisation, Hybrid work options available**

Our Resilient Families program is a therapeutic, evidence informed program designed to provide 12-month, intensive, in-home support to families with at least one child aged 9 years and under. This is an innovative funding model developed in partnership with the South Australian Government. The Benevolent Society is the first organisation to deliver this program in South Australia.

**About the role**

As our Case Manager, you will provide intensive support to families enabling children to live safely at home where there are significant complex vulnerabilities. You will provide intensive case management including in-home practical and therapeutic support from an evidence informed, Resilience led approach. You will improve children’s well-being by strengthening family functioning and relationships.

**Duties**
- Engage clients including children, young people, adults and/or families, using appropriate assessment and risk minimisation processes.
- Work with clients to undertake comprehensive assessments to develop, implement, monitor and review their client plan and outcomes that identify strengths as well as areas of risk, ensuring children and young people are actively engaged in the process.
- Coordinate with other service providers including government departments and agencies, schools, health services, GP’s and allied health providers to ensure services are delivered.
- Assist clients to engage with wrap around services directly, as appropriate.

**Our Benefits**

We support people to live their best life. That includes you, our employee. A ‘best life’ is unique to everyone and can change as life changes. Here are a few things you might be interested in:

- **Salary Benefits -** You can package up to $15,900 pa of you pre-tax salary to pay for everyday expenses and benefit from a $2,650 meals and entertainment card + discount program before income tax is calculated, meaning you take home _even more pay_
- ** Motor Vehicle Packaging Options - **to suit your lifestyle.
- **Work/Life Balance - **Flexible work arrangements including part time hours, hybrid home/office work arrangements, 1 accrued day off a month for full time employees.
- **Recognition and Reward - **Sector competitive remuneration, various recognition programs and access to long service leave after 5 years
- **Wellness -**Fitness passport + Employee Assistance Program + opportunity to purchase additional leave.
- ** Professional development - **We tailor career development opportunities to all employees and volunteers for career enrichment, fulfilment, and growth

**Skills and Experience**

You will have a degree qualification, at least 3 years work experience in the Child Protection system and:

- Ability to actively engage high needs families using client-centered, strengths based approaches
- An interest and/or experience in male inclusive practice
- Ability to work autonomously with families where various psycho-social issues are present
- High level written and verbal communication + current drivers license
- Excellent relationship building skills and experience working with the local Aboriginal communities
- Comfortable working in Evidence Informed Practice with a outcomes focus + understanding of current evidence based practice and intervention approaches for families and children

Have any questions? Call Kelly Gribben on 0481 466 175 to find out more about the role.*Internally this role is known as a Child & Family Practitioner