• Exciting opportunity based in Fairfield

• Full-time, with hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• $58.23 - $60.66 + Super + Salary Packaging

South West Family Services encompasses two programs working with local families; Family Support and Intensive Family Preservation. Family Support helps parents facing difficulties that impact their ability to nurture their children by offering services like parenting programs, referrals to other services, and support with issues like domestic violence, addiction, and isolation. The program focuses on improving parenting practices, strengthening parent-child relationships, and connecting families with local services and supportive social networks. Intensive Family Preservation supports families who are presenting with high levels of child protection risks and referred by Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ). The program provides intensive case management and therapeutic support, working in collaboration with parents to improve the safety and well-being of their children.

What you’ll be doing

Some of your responsibilities will be:

• Providing direction, support, feedback and / or clinical supervision to a team of practitioners to facilitate the delivery of efficient and effective client focused services consistent with best practice standards and relevant statutory and funding requirements
• Implementing and monitoring quality assurance activities, capture, collate and report high quality data, ensuring that all internal and external reporting requirements are met

• Applying an outcome focused approach to leadership that ensures quality service delivery that meets current sector standards.
• Maintaining up to date knowledge of professional practice techniques and translate that knowledge to maximise outcomes for clients
• Facilitate team and cross divisional meetings that foster a high performing service culture that identifies service delivery issues and concerns, exchanges information, establishes operational priorities, communicates policy and legislative changes, and monitors milestones
• Provide / facilitate supervision and professional development
• Provide timely, high level and specialist advice to Senior and Executive Management on service delivery issues, team performance, service quality, and related matters

What you will need

To be a successful candidate you will have:

• Relevant program specific qualifications and expertise
• Industry relevant experience coordinating and implementing services, and supporting individuals and teams to deliver client outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to successfully lead a high performing team and maintain a positive workplace culture
• Demonstrated ability to build and leverage relationships across multi-functional or multi-disciplinary teams to achieve agreed objectives
• High level communication, consultation and negotiation skills
• Strong organisational skills including the capacity for critical thinking and a systemic approach to prioritisation.

What our Benefits include:

• Professional Growth: Tailored professional development opportunities to support your career ambitions
• Work-Life Balance: Embrace flexibility and align your work and your life to enable you to thrive in a Family Inclusive accredited organisation,
• Tax Savings: Maximise your income with generous salary packaging, reducing your tax and increasing your take-home pay
• Generous Leave: Above-award annual and personal/carers leave, extended parental leave, and additional leave for celebration and graduation day
• Inclusive: Join a friendly and supportive organisation that values your contributions and voice
• Wellbeing: Free access to a premium mindfulness app, EAP counselling, yearly flu vaccinations, and a variety of wellbeing activities to make your workday more enjoyable

Choose a workplace that cares about your growth, happiness, and overall well-being. Join us today!

To be considered for this role, you will need to attach your resume and a cover letter addressing how your skills, knowledge and experience meet the requirements of the role (Address the Selection Criteria).

Please submit your application as soon as possible as shortlisting and interviewing for this position will commence immediately.

Need More Information? Please contact Kirsten Mead, Director at [email protected] using the subject line: Practice Manager - South West Family Services enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Who are we and what we do

People are at the core of everything we do: from supporting and enhancing the wellbeing of our clients to the nurturing and development of our staff and their career aspirations.

CatholicCare Sydney is a leading not-for-profit and the social services agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, supporting people from all walks of life. We’re an organisation that promotes diversity and inclusion, and commits to the growth and wellbeing of our staff, empowering them to make a positive change to the community.

We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, identities, abilities, and cultures, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, member of the LGBTQI+ community, and people living with disabilities.

At CatholicCare, we believe vaccination to be the best way to keep our people and our communities safe from Covid-19. We require all employees, volunteers and students to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as a condition of engagement.

CatholicCare requires the preferred applicant to undertake a National Criminal History Record Check prior to employment, and for some roles, a Working with Children Check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check may be required.

A position description is attached.