Social Worker

19 hours ago

Officer, Victoria, Australia bestchance Child Family Care Full time $60,000 - $90,000 per year
  • Ongoing full-time role
  • Immediate start
  • Increase your take home pay with Salary Packaging benefits up to $18,550p.a.
  • Supportive, inclusive and approachable team
  • Access to Employee Wellbeing Program

The Role:

bestchance Child Family Care is currently seeking an exceptional individual with a positive and proactive approach to join our dedicated Family Support Services team.

Reporting to the Program Manager, Children's Therapy Services, this role will be responsible for providing support, referral and advocacy for families with young children facing challenging circumstances. The FSS program involves providing in home and community supports with a range of scaled interventions depending on the family's needs, in a child-centred and family focussed way.

This role will be based out of our Officer office.

About you:

Through your genuine and caring nature you are able to foster and maintain positive, sensitive and confidential relationships between children, staff, parents/caregivers and volunteers.

You are able to successfully advocate, negotiate and problem solve with an ability to develop rapport and positive working relationships with stakeholders and families from a broad range of social and cultural backgrounds.

In addition to the above you will need the following to be considered for this role:

  • Registered as a Social Worker with AASW
  • Hold a valid Employee Working with Children Check and satisfactory National Police Check
  • Current First Aid and CPR training
  • Current Victorian Drivers Licence

What we offer:

  • Paid Parental Leave program for all on-going employees (after 12 months' of service)
  • Strong proactive focus on health and wellbeing, understanding that carers need caring too
  • Genuine flexible working arrangements in a supportive, inclusive and passionate team
  • Access to Employee Wellbeing Program

All bestchance Children's Therapy Services staff are required to hold a WWCC and be able to provide a satisfactory National/International Criminal History Check and NDIS Screening Clearance prior to employment.

About us:

CTS provide therapeutic intervention and capacity building supports to children aged 0-10 years and their families. We service families through the NDIS, Department of Education's Continuity of Support program and also provide capacity building supports to educators through the School Readiness Funding (SRF) program.

We are committed to best practice within the early childhood intervention space and deliver our services through the Key Worker model by using a Transdisciplinary Practice (TDP) approach and for more complex cases, a Team Around the Child (TAC) approach. We are passionate about providing a welcoming and safe environment for our children and families to thrive and learn, and have adopted family-centered and strengths-based practices.

bestchance Child Family Care is a not-for-profit organisation with the aim of building stronger communities, healthier families and happier childhoods.  We achieve this through our quality education, care and therapy services for children, our support programs for families, and our registered training organisation.

bestchance Child Family Care provides a supportive environment to grow, nurture and develop strong bonds with children and families.

For more information visit our website at 

Applications:

For a copy of the position description, please visit 

If you have any questions regarding this position please contact Lisa Dinan via email on 

bestchance is a child safe and equal opportunity employer. We are committed to child safety and have zero tolerance of child abuse. Applicants should be aware that we carry out Working with Children, Police Records and reference checks to ensure that we are recruiting the right people

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