Senior Child & Family Practitioner. Permanent Full Time - Hobart

Senior Child and Family Practitioner, Permanent Full Time - Hobart

• Work for a leading social purpose Organisation
• Permanent, full time role
• Monthly RDO, TOT, Laptop and mobile
• Based in Hobart

About the Organisation

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role

We have a permanent full time opportunity for a Senior Child and Family Practitioner based in Hobart to join our state-wide Family Based Care Team. This senior position provides coaching and direction to relevant staff to ensure they understand and fulfil the requirements of their role, promotes reflective and trauma informed practice; delivers relevant practice-specific workplace training and provide assistance and support where required such as some direct case work, complex case reviews, liaising with key stakeholders and other program specific tasks.

The role requires a dynamic and team focused leader who understands the importance of supporting foster carers, delivering quality, evidence-based services to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people and their families. The suitable applicant will provide supervision and 'on-the-ground' case work and support, professional guidance and development that promotes respectful, purposeful casework with children, young people, families and our community partners.

The position offers a flexible workplace (WFH options), comes with a Tool of Trade vehicle (including fuel card), a phone and some travel maybe required.

Please note: The incumbent will be required to participate in an on-call roster.

Key Responsibilities

• Manages the delivery of client case work services of Family Based Care teams and ensures the case management services complies with LWB policies & processes and the relevant statutory regulations, funding agreements and accreditation standards.
• Provide case management to children, young people and their families with complex support needs in accordance with the CARE principles, LWB practice models, policies and procedures.
• Lead a culture of reflective practice and provide regular supervision, coaching, development and support to case management staff to deliver quality outcomes for children, young people and their families.
• Complete assessment, planning, review and referral for children and young people with complex support needs using endorsed and approved policy, procedures and tools.
• Promote and lead the implementation of organisational practice related initiatives, including supporting the ongoing activities to embed Therapeutic Crisis Intervention and the CARE model, to support a shared language and shared understanding of best practice.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (minimum) in Social Work, Psychology, Human Services or related discipline.
• Knowledge of TCI and CARE frameworks will be highly advantageous.
• Demonstrated experience in a leadership role in case work with children, young people and families.
• Demonstrated experience in practice leadership and / or developing and implementing practice improvement strategies to improve service delivery.
• Current Unrestricted Australian Drivers Licence.

The successful candidate will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check, Working with Children Check and TAS Working with Vulnerable People Check.

Please note: Mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations may be required for this position, in accordance with relevant Public Health Orders across all States and Territories. In these circumstances, evidence of vaccination will be required prior to an offer of employment.

Benefits

• An attractive remuneration package will be offered to the successful applicant, including a mobile phone, laptop and Tool of Trade Vehicle with fuel card.
• Salary packaging tax benefits, meal entertainment benefit, novated leasing and more.
• Growing organisation with great career opportunities.
• Monthly RDO.

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact  tracy.dallas@lwb.org.au 

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications are continuously reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice. 

Current application closing date is midnight Sunday 8th of January 2022.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA)