Community Kinship Care Practitioner – Sunshine Coast

Community Kinship Care Practitioner

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander People of all ages are strongly encouraged to apply.

REFOCUS is in the business of Redirecting and Empowering Families by creating Opportunities through Culturally Unique and responsive Services. Our work is driven by a commitment to strengthening families, celebrating identity, and fostering resilience.

We do this by building genuine connections, valuing emotional intelligence, and taking a ground-up approach to understanding where support is most needed for children and families. Our services are shaped by real-world experience and a deep respect for the communities we serve.

Over the past 15 years, we have supported more than 20,000 community members across the Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay, Gympie, and Cairns regions, delivering high-quality support across the Health, Community, and NDIS sectors. We are powered by a dedicated team with more than 800 years of combined lived and professional experience, ensuring culturally safe, person centered, knowledgeable, and effective care.

We are crafting a team of change-makers, and we want you

People who are crazy enough to want to change the world are the ones to do so. Join our revolutionary new approach to building healthy communities. If you have just the right amount of crazy, lace up your boots and start wearing your undies on the outside (ok, maybe just lace up your boots) and join our revolutionary new approach to healthy communities.

What we offer:

• 4 day work week, we prioritise work/life balance
• Ongoing training and development
• REFOCUS uniform, so deadly you'll want to wear it on your days off
• Salary sacrificing up to $15,900 saving each year tax free, and more
• The opportunity to work for an organisation that is disrupting the system and searching for like-minded renegades to join our rank
• Transforming and empowering communities to enjoy longer, healthier lives is our mission

Position Details

Primary Role: Community Kinship Care Practitioner

Work Location: Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland

Employment Type: Permanent part time, 4 days (30.4, 32.4 or 34.4hrs)

Salary Range: $35 – $46 per hour

Qualification & Experience: Certificate, Diploma or Degree in Community/Social Services and/or 2 years as a Foster Care worker or in the Child Protection System

Reports To: Team Leader

Position Summary

• Assess and evaluate the skills and experience of foster parents transferring to our program from other programs using our program standards.
• Complete home assessments, abiding by Departmental Home Assessment Guide which includes face-to-face interviews with all family members and interviews with couples, household safety assessments of the home, contact references, schools, and other professionals as necessary.
• Negotiate, plan and coordinate placement for children.
• Collaborate with Child Protection case planning – help foster family understand case plan, help case worker understand dynamics or foster family and to mediate conflicts that arise as a result.
• Complete evaluation of children's needs to determine financial compensation to foster parents (e.g. Special Rates)
• Monitor Child Protection Service delivery in the context of the foster family to ensure optimal information, resources and direction for the foster families in their delivery of service to foster families.
• Assist foster families to work with biological families.
• Provide skills and Knowledge based training which includes research and development of training material.
• Evaluate foster family's ability to meet service plan as established and advocate for additional responses as required and /or change in plan reflecting foster families situation or input.
• Provide support and information in regard to Standard of Care matters.

Role may be multi-disciplinary, including parts of Community and Kinship Care, Family Participation Program, Child Family Wellbeing, Extended Post Care Support, Delegated Authority. This will be discussed further in the interview process.

COME ON YOU MOB HAVE A GO

Due to the high volume of applications, only successful applicants will be contacted.