• Leading community services organisation
• Salary packaging and competitive sector remuneration
• Casual opportunity
• Based at Mount Waverley with travel across Melbourne’s eastern suburbs

About the opportunity

We are seeking as skilled and enthusiastic assessor to join our Home Based Care Program on a casual basis. As a Carer Recruitment & Support Practitioner, you will conduct comprehensive interviews, screening processes and prepare assessment reports for potential foster carers under the ‘Step by Step’ accreditation framework. With consideration of the strengths and vulnerabilities of a potential carer, the Practitioner will put forward recommendations on the potential carer’s suitability for accreditation.

View the full position description here.

About you

To be successful in your application you will meet the person specification in the position description, including having a Diploma of Community Services or equivalent qualification. A tertiary degree in Social Work or a related discipline would be advantageous.

You will also have:

• Sound understanding of Best Interests Case Practice Model and the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005
• Demonstrated experience in assessing and appropriately responding to risk for children aged 0-18 years
• Ability to develop comprehensive reports, service documents and maintain case notes in a timely manner
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

How to Apply

If this sounds like you, find out more or apply today. Please upload the following as part of your application:

• Cover letter (1 page outlining your suitability according to the position description)
• Current resume (no more than 3 pages)

Get in touch

Gillian Harris-Dawson – Manager, Family Preservation, Reunification & Home Based Care
0403 353 516 (during business hours)

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

Visit us: unitingvictas.org.au.

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and Working With Children Check (in Victoria) and/or Working With Vulnerable People Check (in Tasmania) prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

We work in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australia’s First Peoples and as the traditional owners and custodians of this land. We celebrate diversity and value the lived experience of people of every ethnicity, faith, age, disability, culture, language, gender identity, sex and sexual orientation. We welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse and non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people at our services. We pledge to provide inclusive and non-discriminatory services.