Caseworker Permanency Support Program

2 weeks ago

Blacktown, Australia MacKillop Family Services Full time

**About the role**:
The Caseworker is responsible for providing high quality and effective casework services for children, young people and families in the Permanency Support Program, supporting and developing carers, and supporting the recruitment of foster and kinship carers.

**Primary objectives**:

- Ensure that children and young people and families in the Permanency Support Program receive services that meet their needs;
- Ensure foster and kinship carers are supported to provide high quality care and positive outcomes for the children and young people in their care;
- Establish collaborative relationships with a wide range of specialist and mainstream services to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families; and
- Develop and maintain strong collaborative partnerships with Aboriginal and CALD agencies.

**This is a Permanent Full-time opportunity based in Blacktown NSW within our PSP Metro Sydney Program. The position reports to the Coordinator PSP.**

**Key Selection Criteria**:
To be successful in this role, you will have:

- A knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal culture and values and an awareness of the current issues faced by Aboriginal children, young people and their families.
- A tertiary qualification in social work or relevant field.
- Demonstrated experience in casework practice preferably in Out-of-Home-Care.
- Proven ability to relate to and work with children and young people with social, emotional and behavioral difficulties.

**For a full listing please view Position Description.**
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**_Our offer:_**
- _ Family friendly flexible working arrangements _
- _Generous Salary Packaging up to $18,500 (helps increase your take home pay)_
- _ Ongoing Career Development, Education and Training _
- _Employee Assistance Program - free and confidential counselling, coaching and emotional support for work and personal challenges_
- _ Click _HERE_ to find out more about becoming a member of the MacKillop Family Services team and what further support we have to offer our employees._

**You must have a**:

- Valid and current Driver’s Licence;
- Satisfactory Criminal History Check (paid for by MacKillop);
- Valid Employee Working with Children Check;

**Our Commitment**:

- MacKillop celebrates and draws strength from diversity and respects the dignity of all people. Every person at MacKillop has the right to be safe and to be treated justly. We value every person’s ability, cultural or linguistic backgrounds, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, intersex status, relationship status, religious or spiritual beliefs, socio-economic status, and age._
- It is our goal that MacKillop Family Services continues to evolve as a culturally safe, culturally competent, and welcoming organisation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people, families, and communities._

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