Child Safety Officer

7 hours ago


Ipswich, Australia Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs Full time

**The Child Safety Officer key responsibilities are**:

- Deliver accountable and collaborative integrated child protection services for complex cases that respect the culture and context of each child, young person, family and community in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, statutory responsibilities, and the child protection practice framework. As part of a multi-disciplinary team (which may include representation from other agencies), undertake high quality strengths-based child protection practice including assessment, intervention, casework and complex case management. Participate and contribute productively as a team member to form culturally appropriate, professional working relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, including children, young people and families, Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), and other service providers. Foster a culture and philosophy of quality frontline service delivery based on collaboration, cooperation, commitment to excellence and professional ethics. Maintain high quality case records in accordance with departmental case management requirements. Participate and contribute to a culture of continuous learning, training and professional development to ensure practice knowledge and skills are contemporary and evidence-based. Contribute to continuous quality improvement strategies. Draw on professional practice experience in relevant child protection fields to provide coaching, and mentoring to new and less experienced Child Safety Officers, to develop their skills and knowledge.

Delegations
Child Safety Officers have a range of statutory delegations and are authorised officers under the Child Protection Act 1999 including the Child Protection Reform Amendment Act 2017.
Applications to remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.



  • Ipswich, Australia Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs Full time

    **The Child Safety Officer (PO3) key responsibilities are**: - Deliver accountable and collaborative integrated child protection services for complex cases that respect the culture and context of each child, young person, family and community in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, statutory responsibilities and the child protection practice...

  • Child Safety Officer

    7 hours ago


    Ipswich, Australia Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs Full time

    **The Child Safety Officer key responsibilities are**: - Deliver accountable and collaborative integrated child protection services for complex cases that respect the culture and context of each child, young person, family and community in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, statutory responsibilities, and the child protection practice...


  • Ipswich, Australia Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs Full time $101,286 - $110,366 per year

    Every child needs someone. So does every family. What if it's you?The Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety has permanent Child Safety Officer (CSO) roles available across Queensland, ensuring the protection and welfare of children and youth. Graduates and career changers with experience or interest in being a social worker,...


  • Ipswich, Australia Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs Full time

    Deliver accountable and collaborative integrated child protection services for complex cases that respect the culture and context of each child, young person, family and community in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, statutory responsibilities, and the child protection practice framework. As part of a multi-disciplinary team (which may...


  • Ipswich, Australia Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs Full time

    **Your contribution**: Child Safety Officer (Specialist Health Liaison) takes a lead in meeting a child's safety and well-being needs: - Where a child in the health system meets criteria for Child Safety intervention. - Where a child in the child protection system is being discharged from a hospital or health service and requires support and case...


  • Ipswich, Australia Queensland Government Full time

    Key duties and responsibilities - Ensure that service delivery is consistent with departmental policies and procedures, departmental objectives and current trends. - Provide culturally appropriate prevention, early intervention, and family support strategies to children and families including referral, provision of information, advocacy and consultation. -...

  • Contract Officer

    2 days ago


    Ipswich, Australia Child Safety, Seniors and Disabilities Full time

    Establish, negotiate and manage contracts with suppliers within a human services environment. - Build and maintain productive and respectful working relationships with a diverse range of suppliers to ensure a quality responsive service is delivered to our vulnerable clients. - Provide advice and information to suppliers and departmental staff regarding...

  • Paralegal Officer

    1 week ago


    Ipswich, Australia Queensland Government Full time

    **: - Provide administrative support to child safety officers and prepare court documents (eg. affidavits), in consultation with and under the direction of the child safety officer and/or senior team leader. - Prepare court documents that demonstrate high level written communication skills, are well structured, objective, clear, concise and meet the...

  • Paralegal Officer

    6 days ago


    Ipswich, Australia Queensland Government Full time

    **Provide administrative support to child safety officers and prepare court documents (eg. affidavits), in consultation with and under the direction of the child safety officer and/or senior team leader. Prepare court documents that demonstrate high level written communication skills, are well structured, objective, clear, concise and meet the required...

  • Executive Assistant

    2 weeks ago


    Ipswich, Australia Child Safety, Seniors and Disabilities Full time

    Our team in the Office of the Regional Executive Director are required to provide high level responses, advice, support and co-ordination to the Regional Executive Director, Regional Directors, Managers and Senior Officers across and outside of the South West Region. Our team specialise across a variety of tasks, some of which include: business operations;...