• Work for a NFP organisation that celebrates all cultures and diversity
• Access to additional salary packaging for meals & accommodation
• Generous leave + Salary packaging benefits!

The Opportunity

Berry Street provides Family Services to children, young people and families, supporting them to strengthen relationships, build safety and wellbeing, and access the right supports at the right time.

This position has an outreach focus in the community, with service delivery across Ballarat and surrounding areas.

As Team Leader, Kinship Care, you will provide leadership, supervision and practice guidance to support the delivery of high-quality, child-centred statutory kinship care services.

• Based in Mount Helen, on Wadawurrung Country, 
• Full-Time, 12-month maternity leave position.
• Salary of $110,000 per annum, pro rata plus superannuation and salary packaging benefits.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, supervision and day-to-day support to the Kinship Care team to ensure high-quality statutory kinship care services are delivered.
• Oversee case management services for statutory kinship care arrangements to ensure the long-term stability, security, safety and development needs of children and young people are addressed.
• Enhance and build on available formal and informal family and community supports for children and young people living in kinship placements.
• Support staff to assist families to provide the best possible care arrangements for children and young people who are unable to safely live with their birth parents.
• Work in accordance with the Home Based Care program requirements, CYFA 2005 and statutory case management requirements, in partnership with Child Protection.
• Provide practice guidance, reflective supervision and support to staff to ensure trauma-informed, child-centred and culturally safe practice.
• Contribute to service planning, risk management, quality practice and continuous improvement across the Kinship Care program.

About You

You will have demonstrated ability to lead, support and supervise staff working with children, young people and their kinship families.

You will demonstrate an understanding of the intergenerational 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.

You will bring strong communication, stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with Child Protection, families, carers and community supports.

Minimum qualification requirements for this role are a Diploma in Psychology, Social Work, Youth Work or relevant field with significant 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

Submit applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position via the "Apply Now" button.

Queries for this role to Nicole McCarty, Senior Manager - Home Based Care, [email protected] using the subject line: Team Leader Kinship and Family Services - Mount Helen enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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: Team Leader Kinship and Family Services - Mount Helen 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.