Job Summary
* Permanent Part Time position (4 days a week)
* Increase fortnight take-home pay with access to $15,900 salary packaging benefits!
* Access training and development opportunities to help you grow.
Location: Croydon, VIC, 3136. Job ID: 531760. Closing on: Jun 8 2026.
Responsibilities
As a Senior OOHC Carer Intake, Recruitment, Training and Support worker you will provide further resourcing to our Foster Care team through intensive carer recruitment and retention activities, supporting accreditation and assessment of foster carers and providing intensive support and supervision to carers as required.
You will be responsible for quality and audit compliance and comprehensive case noting and reporting, as well as assisting the OOHC Intake coordinator to manage the daily intake of foster care placements and related admin tasks as they arise.
Working closely with the OOHC Intake Coordinator, OOHC Team Leader and Program manager and marketing team you will help drive carer recruitment and accreditation across Eastern Melbourne.
You are self‐motivated, enthusiastic, skilled individual who can make clear recommendations regarding suitability for accreditation, and strengths and vulnerabilities of a potential carer when looking after children.
Benefits
* Enjoy a 10% discount at Uniting Early Learning, or 60% for centre staff!
* Up to 10 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers (4 for secondary).
* Free counselling with our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
* Access training and development opportunities to help you grow.
* We recognise contributions with our annual awards programme!
* Enjoy 25% off at Uniting Op Shops.
Qualifications & Skills
* Tertiary qualification in Social Work, Counselling, Psychology or other related field.
* Essential: Experience and demonstrated ability to work with children and young people who have experienced past trauma and abuse.
* Excellent organizational time management skills, the ability to work under pressure and respond to competing/changing priorities and adapt easily to change.
* Demonstrated ability of working within a highly confidential environment.
Salary
SCHADS Level 5 + super.
Closing on: Jun 8 2026.
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