Family Intervention Worker

Introduction

Centacare North Queensland is a not-for-profit organisation that provides counselling, family support, mediation, family dispute resolution, disability services, education and courses, crisis housing and homelessness support, youth services, community engagement and NDIS services. Centacare services the North Queensland community from offices in Townsville, Ayr, Bowen, Mt Isa, Cloncurry and Normanton.

We have a permanent full-time position, so don't delay, apply today for a fulfilling opportunity.  

Benefits you will enjoy

• SCHADS L4 Salary 
• Great NFP Salary Sacrifice options available to reduce your taxable salary by $15,900 p.a. with Eziway Salary Packaging
• 5 Weeks Annual Leave + 17.5% leave loading
• Birthday Leave 
• On site Cafe
• Above Awards payment of $2,500 per annum
• Sign on bonus of $200 
• Extensive support and investment in your Professional Development

Description

The Family Intervention Worker (FIW) provides practical family support and case management to families involved in the child protection system and to assist them to appropriately care for and protect their children. 

Joining a values driven and supportive team, you will: 

• Build rapport with families while maintaining professional boundaries.
• Complete assessment of family's needs through engagement and consultation with the family and information obtained through assessment tools, observations, family history, and child safety case plan. Develop an intervention plan based on assessment.
• Provide practical family support strategies and appropriate modelling of parenting and household skills to families to strengthen parenting capacity and to provide a positive family environment.
• Maintain regular contact with client (5-20 hours of contact and coordination support; minimum of twice weekly).
• Provide supervised contact between parents and their children as per intervention plan and complete a supervised contact agreement outlining details.  Additionally, provide a supervised contact report following each contact in line with program procedures.
• Ensure consistent communication to Child Safety, maintaining reporting requirements as outlined in Information Provision to the Department of Child Safety, Seniors, and Disability Services.
• Regular review of intervention plan goals through completion of subsequent outcome stars and meetings with Child Safety as per procedure.
• Maintain clients' files in accordance with program and agency procedures.
• Ensure working from a trauma informed and child development practice framework and utilizing evidenced based interventions.  
• Complete regular safety assessments and discuss any safety concerns with line manager immediately as per policy.
• Participate and contribute to line management meetings, supervision, team meetings and staff days as required.

Skills And Experiences

To be successful in the role you will have: 

• You must have a tertiary qualification in psychology, social work, human services or behavioural science. 
• Demonstrated ability to impart knowledge and skills using a range of theoretical frameworks in a creative and flexible way regarding household and child management in a non-judgmental manner.
• Highly developed communication skills both written and verbal for working with a broad-based network of service providers and culturally diverse clientele.
• Knowledge of and understanding of the issues that impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in contemporary society, including the ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with Indigenous people.
• An ability to understand and describe family functioning in a broad range of cultural and social contexts and knowledge of the impact of abuse and dysfunction with families.
• Demonstrated ability to undertake risk assessments relating to family functioning and risk within households. 
• Demonstrated organisational, time management and administration skills.
• Current open driver licence.

Applying
If you are interested in applying for a position, please provide a brief cover letter outlining your experience relevant to this role along with a copy of your Resume. Only applicants that are shortlisted will be contacted.  

If you have not received any contact within 30 days of the commencement of this ad, unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful.  We wish you all the very best in your future applications.  

Centacare North Queensland is a Child Safe and Equal Opportunities Employer.  People from diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with a disability, and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. To be considered for a position, applicants must hold a current Blue Card, hold/be eligible for a Disability Worker Screening (Yellow Card),and have appropriate work rights in Australia.

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