Job Summary
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 26th Jun 2022
- Sydney > Liverpool
An exciting opportunity exists for a motivated early childhood professional to lead the development and implementation of a child and family support framework for Open Support Domestic & Family Violence Service. Your knowledge and experience in working with children and families who have experienced trauma will help to guide service delivery and drive the provision of high-quality, child centered, trauma informed, support.
This role will allow you to utilise both your practical skills in working directly with children and families as well as your program and project management skills, to ensure that best practice is established and embedded into the service delivery framework at Open Support. Your experience in developing and delivering individual and group interventions will be crucial to your success in this role.
You will also have a sound working knowledge of relevant standards and guidelines in relation to child protection, including the application of and compliance with the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations.
Open Support is a community service organisation committed to providing assistance to families in need across New South Wales. Open Support offers services that are professional, flexible and responsive to emerging community needs.
As one of our key service areas, we provide crisis accommodation, transitional accommodation support, case management and child specific case support to CALD and migrant women and children who have experienced and are escaping family violence. In addition to our crisis facility, support is also offered to clients who are transitioning or have transitioned from crisis accommodation to longer-term housing and in an outreach capacity.
The Open Support DFV Program aims to ensure that women and children are supported in ways that leave them empowered to make choices that prioritise their own safety & wellbeing and that lead them to experience and increased sense of control and hope for their futures.
St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney provides the payroll and human resources services for St Vincent’s Clinic and as such your legal employment entity is St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney.
If you are looking for a career with an organisation that is committed to making a difference to the most vulnerable in our community, then this is the role for you. Open Support offers a supportive and flexible working environment and unique opportunities for professional and personal growth. In addition, a competitive salary packaging arrangement through Smart Salary is available to all permanent employees.
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Please direct any enquiries to Karen Devins, DFV Program Manager, Open Support [email protected] using the subject line: DFV Child & Family Advocate enquiry via EthicalJobs.
A position description is attached.