Family Wellbeing Specialist

**Introduction**:
About ATSICHS Brisbane

ATSICHS Brisbane is a not-for-profit community-owned health and human services organization delivering on the unique health and wellbeing needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in greater Brisbane and Logan. We pride ourselves on providing health and human services, our way - supporting our people and community in our commitment to creating a flourishing future and lasting legacy for them and their families.

**Description**:
About the Role

The role is heavily outreach based, engaging families in their homes, and translating initial engagement into a strong ongoing partnership. Once engaged, the role will not identify the family issues in a practitioner-led assessment, rather deliver interventions that build family awareness and insight into their history and current family challenges in order for families to self-identify their key challenges and lead their own change.

Duties

The FWS Family Support Case Manager delivers targeted family wellbeing practice strategies to achieve the core family outcomes of the program, including:
Build the parenting capability, skills and knowledge that promote flourishing child rearing
Facilitate imbedding structured family routines that improve household management, healthy eating and quality family time
Improving parental management of stress and personal wellbeing, including coordinating access to ATSICHS Mental Health Service (Social Health Team).
Ensuring all children meet developmental milestones by facilitating family access to ATSICHS paediatric/Mums and Bubs medical services, including access to specialist allied health supports
Improving financial health of families by achieving meaningful employment and/or training
Improving school attendance and educational engagement of parents
Enrolment in Kindergarten and family participation in early years playgroups
Securing family safety
Improving stable housing and family ability to maintain a tenancy
Minimising AOD substance misuse by coordinating access to treatment services
Improving family health by coordinating to ATSICHS medical clinics for annual preventative health assessment
Improving family dental care by coordinating to ATSICHS dental clinics for annual preventative dental check-up.

Culture

We are a diverse, ambitious team excited about what we do. We value integrity, excellence, transparency, and accountability. We work as a team to make our customers and ourselves successful.

**Benefits**:
Handsome annually salary package

Relaxed dress code

Perks and Bonuses

Salary Sacrifice Options - pay less tax

COVID-19 Requirement

Your immunization history as listed on the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) clearly shows at least 2 doses of COVID-19 vaccination details.

**Skills and Experiences**:
Required

**Qualification and/or Experience**:

- Current Cert 4 in Social Work, Human Services, Social Science, Health, Allied Health, Youth Work, Community Services, Child and Family Intervention with at least 12-months experience in a case management role

OR
- Current graduate university bachelor's degree in Social Work, Human Services, Social Science, Health, Allied Health, Youth Work, Community Services, Criminology with at least a 10-week full-time placement in social service field.

**Additional Requirements**:
Requirement to travel across the Logan and/or Brisbane region, as per program location.
Current drivers' licence
Flexibility to work outside core 8:30am-5pm business hours in meeting individual client needs and provide responsive care
Working with Children's Card (Blue Card) or be eligible to apply
Working with disability (Yellow Card) or be eligible to apply
Valid police check

How to apply

Applications can be submitted by following the links on the Recruitment page. Please note the advertising closing date is indicative only.