Senior Child Safety Officer Role Overview
This Senior Child Safety Officer position is a key role in ensuring the safety, belonging, and wellbeing of all children and young people in the child protection process.
The Senior Child Safety Officer (SCSO) is responsible for delivering statutory child protection services including assessment, intervention, casework, and case management for complex cases.
The SCSO must deliver services in accordance with legislation, practice guidelines, and a strength-based framework for practice.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Deliver accountable and collaborative integrated child protection services for complex and sensitive cases, respecting the culture and context of each child, young person, family, and community, in accordance with departmental policies, statutory responsibilities, and the child protection framework for practice.
2. Work collaboratively with colleagues, stakeholders—including children, young people, families, NGOs, service providers, medical professionals, police, and others—to provide high-quality, strength-based child protection practices in complex and sensitive cases.
3. Participate and contribute as a team member to develop culturally appropriate, professional relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, including children, young people, families, NGOs, and other service providers.
4. Foster a culture of quality frontline service delivery based on collaboration, cooperation, commitment to excellence, and professional ethics.
5. Maintain high-quality case records in accordance with departmental requirements. Prepare and support less experienced Child Safety Officers in case management and report writing.
Continuously learn, train, and develop professionally to ensure knowledge and skills are current and evidence-based.
Draw on professional practice experience to coach and mentor new and less experienced Child Safety Officers, supporting skill and knowledge development.
Contribute to ongoing quality improvement strategies.
Applicants remain eligible for 12 months.
Additional Information
* Occupational group: Psychology, Counselling & Social Work
* Seniority level: Not Applicable
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Management and Manufacturing
* Industries: Government Administration