Fostering Support Worker

**Churches of Christ, Children, Youth and Families, Bundamba**

**Permanent Full-time Opportunity**

**Imagine working for us**

Our values encourage us to be accepting of differences and embrace all. Our size and variety offer you real choices and opportunities to grow your career.

We also offer:

- Salary-packaging benefits that can increase your take-home pay;
- Five weeks of annual leave and the ability to purchase more;
- Grants (for eligible employees) to assist in formal study;
- Access to online learning platforms to further develop your skills;
- Discounts through our large network of retail partners.

Established in 1930, We are one of Australia's largest and most diverse not-for-profit organisations.

Active in the areas of children, youth and family services; community housing; retirement living; home care; and residential aged care services, we provide care and compassion to vulnerable people at different stages of their life journey. With over 200 Services in more than 100 communities, we positively impact around 45,000 lives a year.

**About the role**

In this role you will be engaging with families referred to prevention and early intervention services.

Your daily duties will be diverse but in essence will include:

- Planning and actioning placements for children and young people including scheduling and facilitating initial and ongoing care plan meetings;
- Providing ongoing mentoring of placements with foster carers including the transition of children and young people entering or exiting from placements;
- Providing information and assisting with ongoing development, education and training of foster and kinship carers;
- Working as part of a team to ensure assessments and associated tasks are completed;
- Identifying and progressing individual targeted recruitment activities;
- Promoting the work of foster and kinship carers and assisting with carer recruitment events.

This is an identified position - to perform this role it is essential that the person who holds the role be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person, it is therefore a genuine occupational requirement under section 25 of the _Anti-Discrimination Act 1991_ that applicants are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Remuneration for this role is $34.04 - $36.50 per hour commensurate with experience.

**About you**

You are passionate about the welfare of children and achieving the absolute best outcomes for them.

Excellent interpersonal skills enable you to build strong rapport with a range of internal and external stakeholders. You have genuine empathy and are compassionate toward vulnerable individuals. You are highly approachable, a problem solver who can think quickly on your feet to make the right decisions.

You have comprehensive knowledge of legislative requirements and effortlessly promote a culture of compliance.

To be suitable for this position, your qualifications for the role will consist of:

- Certificate III in Protective Care, Youth or Community Services and/or related experience with a willingness to participate in further training;
- Applied knowledge and understanding of child protection and out-of-home care frameworks including knowledge of The Child Protection Act 1999;
- Demonstrated experience in providing training to adults and a range of supports including positive behaviour management and stress management strategies;
- Demonstrated ability to engage effectively and sensitively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, together with a sound knowledge and understanding of both culture and societies and the issues which impact upon them in contemporary society;
- Current Driver License;
- Possess or have the ability to acquire a National Police Check, Working with Children (Blue Card) and Licensed Care Service (Child Protection).

Importantly, you will be someone who closely aligns with our organisational values of: Unconditional Love, Continual Innovation, Mutual Trust, Wise Stewardship and Safety.
- Under Churches of Christ policy and/or the applicable public health directions, team members are required to be vaccinated for Covid-19. As part of the recruitment processes we ask that you provide evidence that your vaccination meets the requirements of Churches of Christ policy or the applicable public health direction._

**To apply**

**Applications will be assessed as received