As the Case Manager in the Circle Program your role is therapeutic. Your role is to deliver enhanced therapeutic support to children and carers in foster care. This role is for those with a background in therapy, you need to focus on developing therapeutic parenting strategies and review each care plan to monitor progress.

Duties:

• Complex, coordinated and effective assessment of a placement
• Case management and enhanced therapeutic support
• Support reunification outcomes and transition the child or young person when exiting care
• Develop therapeutic parenting strategies

Skills and Experience:

• Tertiary Qualification in Social Work, Social Sciences or Psychology with experience and training in family therapy will be highly regarded
• Experience in a similar role, out of home care, foster care, kinship
• Current driving license (essential)
• Comprehensive understanding of foster care
• Comprehensive understanding of therapeutic case management techniques

Benefits:

• Permanent contract
• Part time hours available
• Part of a brand new team
• Evidence Based approach to working with carers
• An opportunity to implement a new program
• Salary packaging up to $15,900
• Unique culture promoting shared values
• Implement innovative, evidence-based approaches to foster care

About Oz Child

At OzChild we are on a journey to discover and apply new approaches and best practices to achieve better outcomes for vulnerable Australians through the programs and services we deliver. As the organisation aims to strengthen our impact through evidence-based programs, the OzChild leadership team has committed to developing, training and evolving our people as enablers to achieving our strategic objective to grow and disrupt the sector.

OzChild is committed to the employment of Aboriginal people and providing a work environment in which Aboriginal peoples’ cultures, beliefs and values are acknowledged and respected, and in which the individual career goals and personal aims of Aboriginal staff are identified, promoted and achieved.

OzChild is an equal opportunity employer and encourages individuals of diverse backgrounds to apply. This includes, but is not limited to, those from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and LGBTIQ communities