The Carer Recruitment and Development Worker is a specialist role within MacKillop’s Carer Recruitment and Development Team. The position is responsible for the recruitment, training, assessment, development and retention of carers within the program.

The Carer Recruitment and Development Worker will be primarily based in our Northern office. Travel will be required. This position reports to the Carer Recruitment and Development Coordinator.

Position Objectives

Reporting to the Coordination you will be responsible for the delivery of effective recruitment, development and retention of high-quality, trauma informed, therapeutic carers. Carers include foster carers, Targeted Care Package (TCP) carers and other forms of care providers).

This role requires you to:

• Provide quality training and robust assessments of carer applicants.
• Comply with the relevant departmental and MacKillop processes and procedures and Child Safe principles.
• Supporting the development and implementation of a clear strategic plan for carer management (attraction, recruitment, development and retention)
• Support the development, implementation and review of pre and post-accreditation training for potential carers.
• Clear communication and information processes are in place to support carers.
• Be an effective team member of the Carer Recruitment and Development Team.
• Support the development and embedding of EDDI (MacKillop’s Electronic Data and Document Interface system) to ensure carer information is entered. In addition, to ensure all carer recruitment, training and development activity can be regularly monitored and analysed, and that learnings inform practice improvement.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Represent MacKillop at community events to attract new carers and raise community awareness of care (foster care, permanent care, TCP, etc.).
• Respond to carer enquiries in a timely manner.
• Meet compliance requirements for all carers.
• Facilitate training pre and post carer accreditation, for example Shared Lives and Trauma Informed Care (TIC).
• Carer and targeted carer recruitment, coordinate carer assessments, compile carer assessment reports, complete compliance checks, present carer assessment reports to the accreditation panel, and ensure carer accreditation administrative processes are completed.

A position description is attached.