Interventionist

**Full time position based in Hurstville**:

- **TRP $86k - $92k + Salary Packaging**:

- **Flexible Friendly organisation, WFH & part time options available**

The Benevolent Society supports Australians by offering integrated support services for children, young people, families, people with disability, older Australians and carers.

We work across Australia, nationally through virtual service delivery and in person in NSW, VIC, ACT, SA and QLD and we work with thousands of people every day, to help them feel valued, cared for and understood.

**About the role**

Functional Family Therapy is an evidence based model built on a foundation of acceptance and respect. At it's core, is a focus on assessment and intervention to address risk and protective factors within and outside the family that impact children's safety and adaptive development.

As our Interventionist, you will use your knowledge to work intensively with families to assess strengths, needs and identify goals; develop and monitor case plans aimed at improving family functioning and increase the safety of children. You will support clients to embed changes particularly behavioural changes and plan for potential challenges that families may face in the future using motivational interviewing skills.

**Duties**
- Work intensively with a range of designated high-risk clients in their homes to provide family therapy and child protection intervention using a whole of family approach during sessions. Practitioners will work with multiple stakeholders relating to the individual and/or family.
- Engage and motivate young people and families to be a part of a change process by decreasing family conflict and blame and increasing their hope about the possibility for change. This enables later phases of the Functional Family Therapy - Child Welfare model to be implemented.
- Work with clients to undertake comprehensive assessments to understand underlying causes of harm in the family and develop, implement, monitor and review clinical therapeutic interventions that identify strengths as well as areas of need, ensuring families are actively engaged in the process and demonstrate consistency with the model framework, through regular clinical consultation and data analysis.
- Coordinate and link to a range of treatment services in the community including for specialised counselling, education and youth targeted services, domestic and family violence support, and treatment for substance abuse.

**Our Benefits**

We support people to live their best life. That includes you, our employee. A best life is deeply personal. It can change as life changes. Here are a few things you might be interested in:

- **Salary Benefits** -** In addition to your salary you can package up to $15,900 pa pre tax and benefit from a $2,650 meals and entertainment card + discount program and package vehicles
- **Work/Life Balance** - **Flexible work arrangements including part time hours + laptop & phone provided to work remotely + 1 accrued day off a month for full time employees
- **Recognition and Reward** - **Length of Service rewards + long service leave after 5 years
- **Wellness** -** Fitness passport + Employee Assistance Program + opportunity to purchase additional leave
- **Professional development** - **Ongoing learning, training and career progression opportunities

**Skills and Experience**

You will have a minimum tertiary qualification in Social Work, Welfare, Psychology, Counselling or related discipline and:

- Experience working within complex trauma and child protection using a case management framework
- Ability to actively engage, assess and case manage at risk families using a strengths based approach
- A clear understanding of child protection issues and the capacity to identify and respond to escalated risk
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to data collection
- Excellent relationship building skills and experience engaging with reluctant clients