Passion: Work that you can see making a difference with your clients

Balance: Full time, close to your home, multi-disciplinary team

Growth: Large agency focused on staff development & internal opportunities

• Practice and develop your therapeutic intervention skills
• Support therapeutic contact with children and parents working towards reunification
• Coaching, play and role modelling
• Unique contact centre environment and program
• Supportive leadership within multi-disciplinary team
• Full time
• Maximum term with options for extension or transfer
• Based in Doveton (Vic)
• Connections – now part of Uniting

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

We are proud to have been part of local communities for over 100 years delivering services across Victoria and Tasmania. With a team of 7,000 skilled and committed individuals we provide over 770 programs and services to people of all ages to learn, thrive and enjoy a healthy, happy life. We’re there for children, families, people with disability, older people and those experiencing homelessness, mental illness or drug and alcohol addiction.

Uniting is looking for great people who, like us, celebrate diversity and welcome everyone regardless of ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation and gender identity.

Learn more
vt.uniting.org

About the opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Social Worker to join our multi-disciplinary team with the Enhanced Therapeutic Contact Service (ETCS). Based in our Doveton centre, services are also offered in a range of community settings in the southern suburbs.

This is initially a 5 month maximum term appointment, due to an internal career development transfer. Options for extension and/or transfer to similar and close by options will be available.

ETCS supports children who have been placed out of their parents’ care, to have positive, supervised contact with their parents and family members. Referrals come from Department of Health and Human Services, Child Protection.

The Social Worker will:

• Facilitate therapeutic contact between children and their parents
• Plan and deliver therapeutic interventions to enhance the social, emotional and psychological development of children and their families during contact
• Provide transport for children
• Provide case work support
• Coach, play and role model
• After-hours work required from time to time

Uniting Connections offers employees:

• A comprehensive range of professional development opportunities
• Supportive and regular supervision
• Career options through a wide range of programs and locations across Uniting
• Salary packaging up to $15,900 per annum via paywise salary packaging (www.paywise.com.au).

About you

To be successful in your application you will meet the person specification in the position description, including having a relevant tertiary qualification in Social Work or a related field.

Please address the following questions related to the person specification in a separate document to be uploaded as part of your application:

• Summarise your Social Work or related qualifications and relevant professional development
• Describe examples of your experiences in assessing the needs of children, young people and their families
• Describe examples of your training and experiences in providing therapeutic interventions with children and their families where there is a history of abuse and trauma
• Describe the types of written reports and case notes you have prepared and the feedback on the quality of these that you have received.