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Senior Practitioner - Child Centred, Trauma Informed Practice

Save The Children

Across Southern Queensland, Save the Children operates independent accommodation units located within secure facilities, and provides outreach support to women and children escaping domestic and family violence. In these environments women and children receive the support and information they need to make informed choices about their future, free from the immediate threat of violence. We need you to join this team of dedicated professionals, taking the lead in driving our child centered, trauma informed practice.

Save the Children is no ordinary not-for-profit.

We're ambitious, creative and outspoken. We stand up for children's rights. We want all children to be educated, healthy and live a life free from violence. We've been working with families and communities in Queensland as a trusted support for children for nearly 70 years. More information on our work in Queensland is available here.

Save the Children works within a human and child rights and a child participatory approach. Our parent and child support workers operate within a practice framework that is child and women centred and trauma informed, and children are treated as individuals in their own right.

Where you come in:

In this full-time, maximum term position (maternity leave cover, until April 2022), you'll join a team of skilled and committed domestic and family violence specialists to support our teams to embed high quality, child centered practice within each of our seven domestic and family violence refuges. You'll also work closely with the Senior Practitioner for Everyday Positive Play (EPP), a training program that supports external organisations to embed child centered, trauma informed practice within their program approaches. As part of our Australian Services team, you'll report to the Regional Manager for South East Queensland.

You will make an impact by:

  • Helping to ensure we continue to embed and continuously improve our delivery of child centred, trauma informed (CCTIP) services to children and families
  • Providing supervision, coaching and mentoring to our DFV Child Support Workers
  • Facilitating regular training for staff in the implementation of our CCTIP Framework and supporting the EPP Senior Practitioner in the delivery of external training
  • Supporting and strengthening informal and formal external networks with likeminded organisations and professionals, including the facilitation of quarterly network meetings
  • Promoting the importance of child participation and child rights in service delivery internally, and engaging in external advocacy with stakeholders

Does this sound like you?

You have extensive training and experience working with children and young people mixed with a strong track record of staff support and coaching. You're highly adaptable and would enjoy moving between office and refuge environments. Your ability to influence and inspire people make you a natural leader and a great fit within a team of talented and committed professionals, all of whom are dedicated to supporting women and children to exit violent relationships and live their lives in safety and to full potential.

This role requires:

  • Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to mentor, coach and develop a team
  • Demonstrated skills, knowledge, understanding and experience working with infants, children, young people and families that are living with trauma and other impacts of family violence
  • Demonstrated experience in using trauma informed practice and in working within Practice Frameworks
  • Ability to develop and nurture strong external relationship networks
  • Knowledge and/or experience in handling child safeguarding and child protection concerns and processes

Working at Save the Children is more than just a job.

It's the feeling of knowing that your work is contributing to making the world a better place for children and working with others who feel the same. In addition to a connection to social causes, you will have access to:

  • Individual learning plans and career development opportunities
  • Short term deployment opportunities as part of national natural disaster responses
  • Secondment opportunities to other SCA programs to boost your professional development
  • The peer support of a skilled and dedicated leadership group
  • Friendly and flexible work environment and a culture based on staff health and wellbeing
  • Professional supervision training and monthly supervision sessions
  • Full salary packaging benefits
  • Festive leave in addition to regular leave benefits

Sound interesting?

We'd love to hear from you. To apply, submit your CV, along with a cover letter (no more than 2 pages in length) addressing the role requirements above, by clicking on one of the buttons in the 'Apply' section.

Position Description - Senior Practitioner, CCTIP

At Save the Children, we seek a workforce that is as diverse as our society - in race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, cultures and beliefs - and reflects the communities we work in. We believe diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and core values and we demonstrate this commitment through all our employment practices. Our inclusive workplace culture contributes to making Save the Children a great place to work. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants to apply.

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check where necessary, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.

Save the Children Australia supports the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. If you are successful in your application, we will request consent to access HR held information pertaining to your last 5 years of employment. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguarding here.

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