• Full-time, 1.0 FTE
• Location: Lilydale
• Base salary starting at $97,000 + superannuation + generous salary packaging benefits of up to $18.500.

Are you

• Passionate about working with children, young people and their families?
• Wanting to make a difference in their lives?
• Ready to deliver services and support to make that difference?

Then this may be the role for you!

Who we are

Anchor provides high quality services that brings significant improvements in the life experiences of children, young people and families and caregivers. We pride ourselves in working from a strength based, trauma informed model of care, Advantage Thinking and Self-Determination Theory, where the voice of clients and carers are considered a priority to informing our practice and service development.

About the MyLife Project

Join our MyLife team, where we recognise individuals to be the experts in their own lives, fostering positive change through personalised interventions. Funded by Targeted Care Packages, our work focuses on helping young people transition out of or avoid entering residential care.

As part of our team, you’ll provide seamless support for children and families across various pathways, including care transitions, family reunification, and preservation. You'll work with diverse young people, applying concepts like positive psychology and developmental trauma.

We offer opportunities for growth, supervision, and professional development to ensure your success.

Job Description

As a Case Manager - MyLife your duties will include:

• Embracing and delivering services that are responsive to individual client needs. The MyLife program focuses on identifying, developing and investing in the skills, capabilities and assets of the young person in order to support them to establish sustainable lives.
• Assuming responsibility for all aspects of case contracted case management in line with the relevant statutory program requirements.

Experience

You will be encouraged to utilise your passion and skills to support our young people to grow, develop and feel empowered.

To succeed in this role, you will also have knowledge of:

• Trauma Informed Practice and Advantaged Thinking.
• Services, processes and networks that are required and utilised by Anchor’s client group.
• And experience related to infant and adolescent development, mental health and substance abuse.

Mandatory Qualification/s, Competencies and/or Licences

• A minimum Bachelor of Social Work, or a related discipline, recognised in Australia together with relevant workplace experience.

What we offer

Anchor is committed to developing our people, where you will be supported to be your best.

What we provide:

• Work arrangements that flex to you to allow for a positive work-life balance.
• Additional ex gratia paid leave – 2 days per year at Christmas.
• Engaging, inclusive and supportive team.
• Competitive salary based on qualifications and experience.
• Generous Not-for-Profit Salary Packaging of up to $15,900 free income tax per year, to maximise your take home pay.
• Up to $2,650 additional tax-free money to spend towards meals and entertainment.
• Support through a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program.
• Opportunities to continuously grow and develop professionally.

Next steps

If this sounds like the perfect role for you, then we would like the opportunity to learn more about you.

Please read our position description which can be found on our website at
anchor.org.au/get-involved/join-our-team.

If you would like more information about the position, please contact People and Culture at [email protected] and we will put you in touch with the right person.

Successful candidates will be required to meet the following screening requirements:

• Criminal History Check.
• Working With Children Check.
• Proof of your eligibility to work in Australia.

Anchor reserves the right to commence recruitment proceedings immediately. This opportunity is only open to candidates with appropriate legal working rights within Australia.

Our Child Safety, Diversity & Inclusion Commitment

Anchor is a child safe organisation, committed to child safety and wellbeing. Anchor recruits’ staff in accordance with the Child Safe Standards Victoria.

At Anchor, we aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality, or religion.  We welcome and strongly encourage applications from diverse backgrounds and people with lived experience to apply.

Anchor is committed to creating a culturally safe environment that values and supports Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people(s); where culture and heritage is acknowledged, and respected, as being core to their existence. We recognise and respect the unique culture and contribution that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people bring to our communities.  We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.