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Foster Carer Assessor - Central Coast

Life Without Barriers (National)

About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 7,000 employees working in more than 440 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.   

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

Join our Central Coast office as a Foster Carer Assessor responsible for completing carer assessments and reviews on a permanent full time basis.

Please note, the service delivery area for this role is within a 2 hour radius of our Central Coast Office.

Key Responsibilities

  • Complete carer assessments that are reflective of the needs of the local carer recruitment plan
  • Schedule and attend home visits and other meetings with carer applicants, their families and referees for the purposes of completing carer assessments
  • Ensure written reviews and assessments meet the agreed standards and clearly outline the development needs that the carer has
  • Identify any training requirements, safety concerns or placement issues throughout the assessment process and provide feedback and suggested solutions or recommendations to the care team
  • Throughout the assessment, support and encourage potential carers to apply a reflective, critical thinking analysis of how the caring role will impact on their life, family and other relationships
  • Undertake reviews of established LWB Carers on the frequency within LWB Policy
  • Contribute to the regular corporate review of assessment and review tools.

Skills & Experience

  • Demonstrated experience and skill in undertaking child focused assessments in a child and family welfare setting including carer assessments
  • Completed course/training in the Carer Assessment Tool (Step by Step 2016)
  • Bachelor of Psychology, Social Work or Similar
  • Current drivers licence
  • Ability to maintain positive relationships with individuals, whilst being able to have honest and at times difficult conversations
  • Ability to identify an individual’s strengths and areas for improvement within the context of providing foster and/or host care with a particular emphasis on permanency for children in care

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).

Benefits

  • Tool of trade vehicle
  • Permanent, full time
  • Great tax benefits and monthly rostered days off

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact [email protected], using the subject line: Foster Carer Assessor enquiry via EthicalJobs.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA)

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