Job Description
Kinship Care is the care provided by relatives or a member of a child's broader network when a child cannot live with their parents. Statutory Kinship Care placements occur when Child Protection intervene, and a decision is made that a child is placed or remains with a relative or other community member.
The Kinship Care Practitioner will support Kinship Care families to ensure children's safety, stability, and development. To provide new kinship placements with family services support, and flexible brokerage, which will maintain and promote the stability of the placement.
The position requires regular travel outside the office base to outreach to client homes or other designated outpost facilities.
* Providing case management with new Kinship Care placements and long-term statutory kinship placements
* Developing and reviewing client-centered plans which guide the support provided to children and their families
* Assisting Kinship Carers and extended family members to become self-managed care teams