Our organization seeks a dedicated professional to fill the role of Family Participation Program Empowerment Practitioner. This position plays a vital part in reducing the disproportionate representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the child protection system.
About the Role
This challenging yet rewarding role requires you to effectively deliver an accountable, effective, and culturally strong service. Your primary objective will be to provide independent support to families when child protection concerns are reported for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child or young person. The ultimate goal is securing the safety of the children and the family's participation in decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide independent facilitation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family-led decision making.
* Enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families to participate in decision making about them and their children.
* Facilitate family-led decision making from early in the child protection continuum.
* Support self-determination and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle.
* Assist families to understand Child Safety processes and the safety concerns held by Child Safety (where applicable).
* Provide support to families to enable them to have active input to decisions.
* Conducting family mapping to identify family members who could support the resolution of safety concerns or maintain the child's cultural and family connections.
* Facilitating family planning sessions in preparation for a family-led decision-making meeting.
* Facilitating formal family-led decision-making processes, ensuring all participants can contribute to the family plan.
* Linking families with the support services they need to implement and sustain the family plan.
In this capacity, you will be working closely with families, building trust, and empowering them to make informed decisions about their lives. Your success in this role will be measured by your ability to deliver results-driven solutions that positively impact the well-being of our clients.
Requirements:
* Current Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Human Services, Social Science, Health, Allied Health, Youth Work, Community Services, Family Intervention, or Criminology with 2 years' relevant experience in social services.
* OR Current Diploma in Community Services, Social Work, Human Services, Child and Family, Allied Health, Youth Work, Child and Family Intervention with 3 years' relevant experience in social services.
* AND With at least 1 year of abovementioned experience in a case management role.
* Demonstrated ability and comfortableness working in a performance-driven environment to meet individual weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance targets.
* Demonstrated ability to build client agency, self-efficacy, and facilitate change through client empowerment while actively discouraging client dependence on supports.
* Demonstrated knowledge and ability to provide brief behavior change interventions that build client self-awareness and active change in achieving their identified goals.
* Demonstrated ability to work with the whole-of-family, irrespective of primary client, in meeting the totality of family needs.
* Demonstrated ability in coordinating multiple services in providing access to holistic care for clients, particularly integrating internal agency supports across multiple teams.
* Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the factors contributing to vulnerability, disengagement, and intergenerational trauma of client group.
* Experience with case management for high-risk and/or crisis clients, with high-level planning and organizational skills.
* Knowledge of the supports available to target clients in the areas of mental health, substance misuse, education, employment, and housing.
Benefits:
* Starting Salary of $86,000 per annum (depending on qualification and experience) + 11.5% Super + Not-for-Profit Salary Packaging (Increases your take-home pay).
* Permanent full-time position.
* Supportive and collaborative team of dedicated professionals.