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Service Leader | Intensive Family Support Service | Logan
* Employment Term: 12- month Maximum Term, Full-time (76 hours per fortnight)
* Location: Logan
* Remuneration: $ 55.72 p/hr + Super + NFP Salary Packaging (save tax and increase your take home pay)
Make a meaningful difference with UnitingCare Queensland
At UnitingCare we are leaders in crisis response, the protection of vulnerable people and children, financial resilience and family wellbeing. Our FaDS (Family and Disability Services) team work passionately across Queensland to make a meaningful difference in people's lives.
As a Service Leader, you'll be encouraged to grow, develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about. Let's make a meaningful difference, together
Your part in our UnitingCare team
The Intensive Family Support Service (IFSS) is a free and voluntary service that provides tailored support to families with children aged 18 and under living at home, as well as expectant parents. The service provides support for diverse families with multiple and complex needs, through targeted interventions to build their skills and capacity to safely nurture and protect their children. This is an in-home support service through visiting families in their homes to develop goals to enable families to keep their children safe at home.
As The Service Leader You'll
* Provide professional leadership to a team of Case Workers
* Work cooperatively across UCQ programs to derive maximum benefit for people accessing services.
* Support the day-to-day operations and practice improvement of our IFS service.
What makes a difference for us?
* Tertiary Qualification in a relevant field (e.g., Social Work, Psychology or Social Science) as required by relevant service contracts.
* A minimum of two years demonstrated leadership experience coupled with experience working in child protection and Intensive Family Services.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation, policy and licensing requirements associated with the service
* Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders
* Current Drivers Licence
* Working with Children Check (Blue Card)
What makes a difference for you?
At UnitingCare we are leaders in crisis response, the protection of vulnerable children, financial resilience and family wellbeing. Our Family and Child Services team work passionately across Queensland to make a meaningful difference in people's lives.
* Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
* Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum
* A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs
* A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others
* Eligible employees are entitled to 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme; for eligible employees.
* Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events
* Career development opportunitiesto challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference
We'd love you to be part of our UnitingCare family
Our Family and Disability Services team are passionate about their work with parents to ensure children remain safe in the home and parents have the skills, resilience and capability to effectively parent and meet their children's developmental, educational, health and well-being needs. We also provide targeted services to men who are seeking to change their behaviour.
Child safe, Child friendly
UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:
* provide welcoming, safe & nurturing services for children
* implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
* appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur
Diversity & Inclusion
Our approach is simple– everybody iswelcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values.We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.
Safe workplace
We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.
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