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Case Manager - Child & Family

Lifestyle Solutions
  • Permanent Full Time Opportunity
  • Attractive remuneration and supportive team
  • Make a real and tangible difference to someone's life

Why choose Lifestyle Solutions?

At Lifestyle Solutions, we believe our staff are our best assets. We believe in ensuring equal recognition, equal treatment, and equal opportunity to all of the people we support, our customers. We know this is only possible if we have great staff.

At Lifestyle Solutions, we have our people at the heart of everything we do. Whether this is the people we support, our customers, or our diverse workforce, we strive to be a leader in the sector, a service provider of choice, a business of excellence, and a great place to work.

We're looking for people to join our passionate teams on our journey to provide a rich, productive and happy life for the people we support and in our communities around Australia.

What is the Role?

The People We Support deserve the absolute best Case Managers who are invested in their journey to independence and we're on the look out to find them!

Are you truly passionate about supporting people? Do you want to make a real and tangible difference to someone's life? As a Case Manager in our organisation, you'll be doing just that. It's a challenging role and you'll need to be resilient but the reward for your hard work will come with the knowledge that you have improved the quality of life and the level of community participation for a Child or Young Person.

Our Case Managers are responsible for providing case management support to children, young people, their families and carers through a framework of strengths based case management and person-centred approaches.

You will be responsible for:

  • Managing a caseload of children/young people and their families or carers
  • Undertaking comprehensive assessments
  • Initiating, reviewing and completing appropriate intervention strategies
  • Convening and participating in case conferences
  • Facilitating access to services, contributing to and undertaking case reviews
  • Establishing and maintaining a list of contacts
  • Working with external stakeholders and applying understanding of child protection related Court procedures and practices.

Who are we looking for?

If you're able to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team and in partnership with other services, and you have experience working with Children and Young People who have experienced complex trauma backgrounds we'd love to hear from you!

Essential Requirements:

  • Tertiary qualifications in Social Work, Social Science, Behavioural Science or Psychology
  • Experience with Case Management in the Community/Social sector
  • Sound practice and knowledge or significant experience in meeting the holistic needs of Children and Young People
  • Experience managing and supporting Children and Young People who have complex trauma backgrounds and/or who display difficult or challenging behaviours
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection Act) 1998 and Out Of Home Care standards
  • Strong analytical and assessment skills
  • Strong reflective practices and a willingness to accept feedback from stakeholders
  • Drivers license
  • Ability to work flexible hours

All applicants are required to undergo employment screening through probity checks, prior to commencing.

Lifestyle Solutions is committed to building a workplace culture that values diversity and inclusion. We actively promote the employment of people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTI and other diversity groups. Lifestyle Solutions encourages applications from people with disability and will provide reasonable adjustments in our recruitment processes and in the workplace.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please call the Recruitment Team on 02 4014 7800 or email [email protected].

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