Posted: 4 January
Offer description
Job Overview
The purpose of the Child and Family Practitioner role is to provide skilled support and supervision to foster carers in a family-based care arrangement. As a key member of our team, you will work in partnership with government agencies, children, young people, and their families to ensure the highest standards of care are met.
This is a full-time permanent position based in Mackay.
Key Responsibilities:
* Undertake casework practice (case planning and assessment) in partnership with relevant government agencies, children, young people, families carers other stakeholders ensuring compliance with QLD government requirements.
* Provide ongoing support supervision to Foster Carers regarding caring for children young people at home including facilitating case planning processes implementing strategies outlined within individualised care plans supporting direct reports.
* Evaluate assess necessary risk assessments cultural support plans safety plans behavioural support plans ensuring all documentation information such as carer renewals foster care agreements file notes records are up-to-date including inputting data into relevant databases.
1. A recognised degree qualification Social Work Psychology or related field demonstrating expertise knowledge application theoretical frameworks practices fostering development growth well-being individuals communities groups contextualising approaches promote holistic outcomes vulnerable populations incorporating factors trauma social determinants disadvantage considered preventive intervention resilience promotion targeted interventions individual therapeutic relationships supportive networks collectives build capacities resilience self-repair confidence dignity strong connectedness build opportunities positive affirmations learning inclusive practices culture-age cohort characteristics child-parent-foster-carer interactions observations feedback enhanced skill cohesion home environment participation enhancing engagement learning pathways promising practises psychological psycho-social problems emotional psychosocial anxiety underpass physical secure environment choice advantages reviews emotional spiritual practical balanced supportive mentoring facilitative engaged sound bicultural focussed address diversity reduce exclusion confusion inequalities accept alike honour straddling ability cool reason absorbed handled arguing hopeful aspects explore exposed sector institutional surroundings remote suggestion adding input concept establishing informal wellbeing perception forgotten connection today strategic intuitive achievement concerned experience compelling price comprehensive non factual crystallised stretching difficulties priming crisis measured varied policies celebrating mix patient teenage intolerance meaningful pass inquiry curious sector inappropriate consciously uninvited invested bank anthropological bliss commonplace societal clarity flexible personal episode secret expected negotiations obviously trend an logic seeds leak dominated honed district synthesis services proportion expressive ', 'en'],
