About the role

• Full-time position to August 2027, located in Wollongong NSW
• Base annual rate $94,498 to $100,280 negotiable

• 12% super plus access to generous NFP salary packaging options

About the opportunity

At Uniting, we believe that families are stronger when they are supported, heard and empowered.

Our Families Together program walks alongside children, parents and carers facing complex challenges, helping them build safer homes, stronger relationships and brighter futures. We partner with families experiencing issues such as domestic and family violence, mental health concerns, alcohol and other substance use, and parenting challenges, providing intensive, strengths-based support that helps children remain safely at home.

Right now, we're looking for an experienced and compassionate Caseworker who wants more than just a job.

As a Families Together Caseworker, you'll become a trusted support person for families navigating some of life's most difficult circumstances.

You'll work intensively with parents, carers and children over an extended period, building strong relationships and helping families identify goals, overcome barriers and create sustainable change. Through regular home visits, advocacy, safety planning and practical support, you'll help families develop the confidence, skills and resilience needed to thrive.

What you’ll be doing

• Build meaningful relationships with families
• Support children to remain safely connected to their families and communities
• Help parents strengthen parenting capacity and family wellbeing
• Coordinate services and advocate for families' needs
• Collaborate with government and community partners
• Apply trauma-informed and culturally responsive practice
• Celebrate progress, resilience and success alongside families

Your Qualifications & Experience

• Tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, Community Services, Human Services, Welfare, Counselling or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience working with children, young people and families experiencing vulnerability and complex needs.
• Knowledge of child protection frameworks, risk assessment and family-based interventions.
• Experience working with families impacted by domestic and family violence, mental health, alcohol and other substance issues, trauma and/or parenting challenges.
• Strong case management, care planning and advocacy skills.
• Ability to engage and build trusting relationships with families from diverse backgrounds.
• Demonstrated understanding of trauma-informed, strengths-based and child-centred practice.
• Ability to work in a flexible manner to meet family needs – e.g. staggered starts
• Current NSW Driver’s licence and willingness to travel throughout the Illawarra region
• Current NSW WWCC

Benefits and culture

Working to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice brings its own rewards, but there’s more.

• Welcoming you exactly as you are
• Access to generous NFP salary packaging options
• Wellbeing programs as well as access to Uniting’s URewards retail partner program.
• Career development opportunities such as training, education.
• Amazing workplace culture

Please contact Belinda Condon from Uniting’s Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or enquiries – [email protected] using the subject line: Case Worker - Families Together - Wollongong enquiry via EthicalJobs.

To apply

Please click "Apply Now" and complete the online application form and include a current resume and cover letter addressing the qualifications and experience for this position.

Applications close: 11:55pm on the advertised closing date.

Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks, which include National Police Checks, Working with Children Checks and Reference Checks.

Empowered by diversity

At Uniting, inclusion isn’t just something we value – it’s how we work. Our culture and practice reflect the vibrant diversity of our colleagues, and the clients and communities we serve.

Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.

About Uniting

When you’re part of Uniting NSW.ACT, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who are really making a difference to the world around them.

We contribute to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people through all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

Uniting leaders and employees work together to create a culture that is safe, inclusive and person-centred. We bring this to life every day through our values: compassionate, respectful, imaginative and bold.

Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to all Elders – past, present, and emerging – and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work.