• Targeted Care Package - Case Manager
• Location: Sunshine, Victoria
• Full-time Fixed Term

About the Company:

Baptcare is a purpose driven and faith-based organisation working across Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, providing residential and community care for older people and support to children, families, and people with disability, financially disadvantaged people and people seeking asylum.

About the Role:

The Targeted Care Case Manager provides support and intervention to parents and carers for children and young people who are at risk of entry into care or who are transitioning from care. This role may also include case management of children and young people on Flexible Funding Packages. A key focus of the role is to work in partnership with Child Protection and other support services, as well as children, young people, parents and carers to provide a holistic trauma informed service using the Best Interests Case Practice Framework.

Duties, Skills and Experience:

• Provide quality service provision to children and young people on targeted care or similar packages
• Liaise with family of origin regarding their children in care as appropriate
• Be involved in all functions of assessment and support of carer and birth families
• Maintain records including case notes, reports, plans and statistics within required timelines
• A tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology or equivalent
• Excellent family and child assessment skills including risk assessment of children and young people as well as assessment of caregivers
• Knowledge and experience of maintaining positive working relationships with Child Protection Services and other professionals and families in challenging situations
• Understanding of and ability to apply therapeutic models and theories around trauma and child development that enable positive change and demonstrated ability to apply these in practice

A position description is attached.