• Job no: RGDDM
• Category: Social Work, Kinship Care

Our vision is everyone feels safe, included and supported to lead their best lives.

For over 240 years combined, Berry Street and Yooralla have been at the forefront of supporting Australians with a disability and those experiencing poverty, violence and abuse. Now, as one unified organisation, we bring together unparalleled expertise and a shared commitment to empowering individuals and families to thrive, while upholding and championing their human rights. We believe in a future where everyone has the opportunity to live the fulfilling life they choose for themselves, free from the impacts of trauma, violence, and abuse, achieved safely and with dignity.

• Located in Shepparton on Yorta Yorta Country
• 2 roles: Full time, Permanent position and Full Time Fixed Term (parental leave) until February 2027
• Base salary $100k pa pro rata + Super and Salary Packaging

The Opportunity

Berry Street provides Kinship Care services to children and their families in the Hume region. Kinship Care is the care provided to a child/young person or sibling group by their extended family or network when they are unable to be cared for by their biological parents.

This position has an outreach focus in the community with service delivery across the Hume region.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide case management services to statutory kinship care arrangements to ensure the long-term stability, security, safety and development needs are addressed.
• Enhance and build on the available formal and informal family and community supports for children and young people living in kinship placements.
• Assist families to provide the best possible care arrangement for children/young people who are unable to safely live with their birth parents
• Work in accordance with the Home based care program requirements, CYFA 2005 & statutory case management requirements in partnership with child protection.

About You

You will have demonstrated ability to effectively engage with children, young people and their kinship families and demonstrate understanding of the inter-generational factors and complex relationships between extended family members that can impact kinship placements.

Experience working with children, young people and families through an attachment and trauma-based lens is essential.

Minimum qualification requirements for this role are a Diploma in Psychology, Social Work, Youth Work or relevant field with intermediate experience in the sector, Bachelor qualification is highly desirable.

The Benefits

• Professional Development training and on the job support to further develop your case management skills with regular supervision.
• Salary packaging (up to $15,900 per annum, plus additional packaging available for meals/accommodation).
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), including access for staff members’ immediate family.
• 17.5% leave loading

How to Apply

Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position.

Queries for this role to Sharelle Davidson, Senior Manager HBC 03 5822 8100.

We believe in diversity, inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of the Victorian community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings, and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies.

We encourage applications from people with lived experience of disability. You'll receive adjustments and support throughout the whole process — from the application stage to starting in the workplace. If you require the position description in a different format or any accommodation or assistance during the application and interview stages please contact the person listed on the ad or alternatively email [email protected] using the subject line: Case Managers x2 - Kinship Care - Shepparton enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Berry Street Yooralla is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. 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.

Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a NDIS Screening Check, Working with Children Check and National and International Police check (if required) and NDIS training.

A position description is attached.