**Department for Child Protection**
**Job reference**: 649451
**Location**: 5554 - KADINA
**Job status**: Short Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
**Role Status**: Full-time vacancy until 16 May 2025
**Remuneration**: AHP3 ($104,180 - $111,746 p.a. + 11.5% Superannuation) / PO3 ($101,285 - $107,078 p.a. + 11.5% Superannuation)
**Role Details**
The Department for Child Protection is seeking a **Supervisor** to join the Kadina office on a full-time basis.
The role is responsible for:
- Providing leadership, development and performance of a designated work team and management of social work/case management practice and standards
- Promoting professional social work practice by enabling culturally inclusive and holistic intervention methodologies that achieve successful practice outcomes
- Ensuring that assessment frameworks and evidence based research is used to develop and implement relevant, inclusive and accessible services to client groups
- Contributing to strategic leadership, business planning and review policies associated to work practices.
**About You**
We are looking for a motivated leader who will actively promote professional social work practice in their team and will develop and lead staff to achieve quality results.
A demonstrated ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing will allow you to develop and maintain productive working relationships with key stakeholders.
You will have proven experience in supervising a team, managing and prioritising workloads, conflict resolution and have the ability to lead culturally competent and diverse practice.
**About the Business**
The Department for Child Protection (DCP) plays a key role in the protection of children, young people and their families within South Australia. The department provides support to vulnerable children and young people to be safe, strong and connected.
**What We Offer**:
- Career progression tailored to your goals: we are a large organisation with diverse opportunities across metropolitan Adelaide, regional and remote South Australia
- Employee Assistance Program: confidential and independent counselling for employees and their families
- Strong commitment to learning and development
- Paid Parental and Partner Leave
- Free annual flu vaccination for staff
- Leave loading and salary packaging opportunities
- Access to Fitness Passport: a workplace health and fitness program that give you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.
**The Region**
Kadina is the largest town on the Yorke Peninsula and is one of three Copper Triangle towns famous for their shared copper mining history. The Kadina office employs approximately 30 people and is one of five offices in the northern region. As a member of this team, you will work with other professionals to deliver child protection services to children, families in the local community of Kadina and surrounding areas.
This is a unique opportunity to work alongside the local community and support good outcomes for that community. To find out more about working in the region, visit working with DCP in Kadina.
**Special Conditions**
**Essential**:
**AHP**: A degree level qualification in Social Work which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
**PO**: Appropriate degree qualification in Community Services, Social Sciences, Human Services, Health or related field.
To find out more about this role, including the **key selection criteria** and **special conditions**, please click on the attached role descriptions.
To **apply** for this role, please click the 'apply' button to be re-directed to the DCP Career Portal.
**Applications close**: 04/02/2025 11:00 PM