• Position: Full-Time
• Location: Melton
• Salary: $70,413 to $75,761

The Opportunity

The Caseworker forms part of a multidisciplinary team of qualified and experienced staff from a range of professional backgrounds.

The Caseworker will act as the key point of contact for the family, care team, and related service network for each allocated case. In addition, the Caseworker will play a lead role in the initial engagement, assessment, and planning processes for each family.

The Caseworker will be required to provide holistic, culturally safe, trauma-informed and strengths-based casework support for Aboriginal families with complex needs who are referred to the program, including case planning, service coordination, and direct services.

About Us

The Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) is the largest organisation of its kind in Australia. VACCA is an Aboriginal community-controlled organisation that supports and advocates for the Aboriginal community. Our strength lies with our people. Our team is committed to the organisation's vision and values; advocates for our children and other vulnerable community members; and shows respect for, observance, and compliance with Aboriginal cultural protocols, practice, and ceremony. Our Aboriginality is what distinguishes us from mainstream services and what enables us to deliver the positive outcomes we achieve for our people.

To be successful you must demonstrate:

• Commitment to VACCA's vision and purpose
• Awareness and appreciation of Aboriginal societies and cultures and an understanding of the issues affecting Aboriginal people in contemporary Australia and the diversity of circumstances of Aboriginal people
• A clear understanding of child and adolescent development, trauma, attachment, child abuse, and neglect, with good knowledge of the services and interventions that: promote child health, safety, and wellbeing; strengthen parenting capacity; improve family functioning and address underlying risk factors for vulnerable families

Qualifications

It is preferred that the successful applicant holds a tertiary qualification in early childhood education, early childhood development; youth work; nursing; maternal and child health; community health; social work; psychology or a related discipline and preferably have at least two years' experience in the child and family services system.

Highly Desirable:

• Experience in working with adolescent parents (including fathers), young people in out-of-home care and/or young people with a learning difficulty or disability will be highly regarded
• Experience in using the NCAST Parent-Child Interaction Teaching Scale will be equally well regarded

How to Apply

For a copy of the position description visit https://vacca.recruitmenthub.com.au/Vacancies/

For more information regarding your exciting future with VACCA, please contact Recruitment Team, on 9287 8800.

Applications must include:

• A cover letter outlining why you are applying for this position
• A resume with your skills, experience, and qualifications
• Written responses to the "key selection criteria" which are provided in the position description document for the position

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.