Job Info
Location: RAVENSHOE, QLD
Salary:
Job Type: Permanent position | Full time position
Job Description
Identified position Job Title: Family Wellbeing Officer - ACCHO - Ravenshoe, Far North Queensland. Job Type: Full-time contract role until 31st December 2027.
Organisation: Mamu Health Service Limited (MHSL) is committed to providing high-quality healthcare to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Far North Queensland.
We are dedicated to improving health outcomes and ensuring the well-being of our clients through comprehensive and culturally appropriate health services. Position Description:
The purpose of the position is to manage a caseload of families and deliver interventions in accordance with approved case management protocols to enhance the capacity of a family to keep their children safely at home. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Family Wellbeing Service will work with families with children that are subject to ongoing intervention by Child Safety Services or require early intervention responses that prevent children from entering the statutory child protection system. The Family Wellbeing Officer role is an Identified position.
It is a genuine occupational requirement that an Identified position be filled by an Aboriginal person or Torres Strait Islander person, as permitted by and arguable under section 25, 104 and 105 of the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act (1991). Please note this is a Fixed Term contract with an end date 31st December 2027
Responsibilities: Provide support and culturally appropriate intervention strategies to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and families Undertake assessments and interventions in accordance with approved case management protocols
Monitor and review agreed case plan goals and responsibilities with clients Advocate on behalf of clients and provide support to achieve case plan goals Implement regular case review conferences, case evaluation and client exit strategies
Develop and maintain working relationships with service providers to enable shared case management, referral pathways and ongoing support for clients after exiting the Service Gather and record statistical data relevant to measuring performance against agreed indicators and participate in review and evaluation activities Qualifications & Experience:
Qualification/ Certificate in Certificate IV in Community Services (Protective Care), Diploma in Community Services and or ability to obtain Possess a current driver's licence Possess, or be eligible for, a Blue Card (for suitability to work with children and young people)
Consent to a broader criminal history check, where relevant Current First Aide Certificate and or ability to obtain prior to start date
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT Employment is conditional upon the following: Vaccination or confirmed non-susceptibility to Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPDs) during employment, including measles, mumps, Rubella (MMR), Varicella (chicken pox), Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Pertussis (whooping cough) and strongly recommended to be vaccina Apply
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