About the role:

• Full-time permanent position located in Campbelltown NSW
• Base annual rate of $82,622 to $88,894 negotiable based on experience & qualifications  
• 12% super plus access to generous NFP salary packaging options

About the opportunity:

Uniting is seeking a Youth Caseworker to join our early intervention team in Campbelltown.

This role works with young people who are experiencing, or at risk of, complex challenges, providing timely, strengths-based support to prevent escalation into statutory or crisis services.

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide trauma-informed, youth centred casework support within an early intervention framework
• Engage and build strong, respectful relationships with young people and their families
• Develop and implement individualised case plans focused on safety, wellbeing and long-term outcomes
• Work collaboratively with families, schools, community services and internal Uniting programs
• Maintain accurate case notes, reports and data in line with program and funding requirements
• Uphold Uniting’s values, child safe standards, and ethical practice at all times

Your Qualifications & Experience

• Experience working with vulnerable people in an early intervention, youth or family support setting
• A strong understanding of trauma-informed and strengths-based practice
• Well-developed engagement, assessment and case planning skills
• The ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams
• Relevant qualifications in social work, youth work, community services or a related discipline
• A current driver's license and 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: Youth Caseworker enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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.

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