Family Preservation and Reunification Practitioner
Location: Horsham, VIC 3400 • • Child, Youth & Families • Maximum Term Full Time • Closing on: Oct
Salary: SCHADS Level 5 + salary packaging
Your new role
The Victorian Family Preservation and Reunification (FPR) Response is a program that works with families and children to help prevent kids from being removed from their homes or placed in out-of-home care. It provides quick, intensive, and ongoing support, especially to families facing challenges such as mental health issues, substance use, or family violence. The program focuses on unborn children, young children aged 0–5, and adolescents aged 10–14 with multiple Child Protection reports.
As an experienced Practitioner in the FPR team, you will work alongside other support services, using proven approaches to keep families strong and safe. You will create personalised plans with each family, ensure cultural needs are respected, and build on the family’s strengths. The goal is to enable families to care for their children and thrive as a unit. Your strong case management experience will support a wraparound, evidence-informed case management approach.
Responsibilities
- Provide person-centred, strengths-based support to families to prevent entries into out-of-home care.
- Develop personalised plans with families, considering cultural needs and family strengths.
- Collaborate with other services to deliver integrated, wraparound support and ensure safety planning.
- Apply evidence-informed risk and needs assessments and manage associated risk.
- Maintain thorough case notes, reports, and compliance with relevant legislation and court orders.
Qualifications and experience
- A tertiary qualification in social work, psychology, community services work or equivalent.
- Minimum of two years’ experience in case management.
- Comprehensive understanding of Child and Family Services, the Child Protection system, relevant legislation, and court orders.
- Experience delivering evidence-informed risk and needs assessments with families and managing risk.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships and partnerships to achieve agency objectives and improve client outcomes.
Benefits
- Access salary packaging to increase take-home pay.
- 10% discount at Uniting Early Learning.
- Up to 10 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers (4 weeks for secondary).
- Diversity and lived-experience support through work groups.
- Option to opt in or out of public holidays with respect for your background.
How to apply
Click APPLY to submit your interest. Applications will be reviewed as they come in and the ad may close early.
For questions, contact Roxanne Kimberley at or call.
About Uniting
Uniting is a child-safe organisation committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children. We have a 5,000-solid workforce delivering services across Victoria and Tasmania. Visit us at
Employment is subject to satisfactory national and state police checks and Working with Children Checks where relevant.
EEO and accessibility
We welcome applicants from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, people with disabilities, diverse backgrounds, and LGBTQIA+. We offer support through the application process.
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📌 Family Preservation and Reunification Practitioner
🏢 Uniting Vic.Tas
📍 Horsham