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    Senior Practitioners - ENU Response Team

    Department of Human Services

    Role Highlights

    • Flexible working arrangements available
    • Help people with disability lead their best life
    • Work with a dynamic and enthusiastic team

    Role Details

    The Senior Practitioner – ENU Response Team is a role within the Exceptional Needs Unit (ENU) and is accountable to the Supervisor of the ENU Response Team for:
    • Undertaking holistic psychosocial assessments of individuals and families with complex needs to determine gaps in support/service response and make recommendations to improve client circumstance.
    • Coordinating funded supports for people with complex needs, including external case management support and specialist assessments.
    • Providing a service coordination response to ensure that key stakeholders involved in supporting a client or family with complex needs communicate effectively and work collaboratively towards client focused, achievable goals.
    • Providing high level consultancy, advice, and reporting on individuals with exceptional needs and other populations with complex and unmet needs requiring support to live in the community; and
    • Facilitating and supporting the development and implementation of appropriate community-based support responses for people with exceptional needs.

    Special Conditions

    • National Police Check required.
    • Employment-related Screening Check required.
    • Role Status: Term up to 26/12/2025 (Multiple roles available.)

    Essential Qualifications:

    • Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers; or
    • Appropriate degree or equivalent in Bachelor of Disability and Developmental Education, which enables eligibility for full membership of Developmental Educators Australia Incorporated; or
    • Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification in Disability and Community Rehabilitation; or
    • Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification in Psychology and registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency; or
    • Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist with Occupational Therapy Australia 

    About the Business

    Our Community and Aboriginal Partnerships Division helps to build community safety and wellbeing by providing support and services to children, young people and families, including those involved with the youth justice system, remote Aboriginal communities, people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, and people with complex and exceptional needs. The division also leads the department's Closing the Gap efforts. 

    Contact Us

    Enquiries to Rosemary Abdallah, 0435 297 696 or [email protected] using the subject line: Senior Practitioners - ENU Response Team enquiry via EthicalJobs.

    Diversity And Inclusion

    DHS is committed to making our services and workplaces safe and inclusive for all people and ensuring the full diversity of the communities we serve are represented in our workforce, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability and/or neurodivergence, young people, older people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, LGBTIQA+ and gender diverse people.

    We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require assistance with this process, please contact us at [email protected] and a member of the team will get back to you.

    The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working, including part time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role.

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. We also celebrate the many strengths and skills people with disability and/or neurodivergent people bring to our workplace and acknowledge our role in ensuring a supportive work environment for people with disability and/or neurodivergent people to thrive in.

    A position description is attached.

    How to apply

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