• Provide essential support + case management within Uniting’s foster care program   
• Increase your take home pay with up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits
• Full-time, Maximum term (12 Months) Parental Leave Cover, based in Horsham

About the opportunity

As a Foster Care Case Manager, you will provide high quality support and casework to children and ensure they are safe within the foster care program. You will work with, and support volunteer carers and their families as well as the children who are unable to live at home with their families using a therapeutic approach and the Looking After Children case management framework.

Click here to view the Position Description.

What’s on offer

• In addition to base salary plus superannuation, you’ll also receive 17.5% leave loading and access to the full $15,900 salary packaging benefits.
• Paid Parental Leave for up to 10 weeks. 
• 10% gap discount for childcare services with Uniting Early Learning.

About you

You are looking to join an organisation that truly supports vulnerable Victorians and Tasmanians to improve their lives.

To be successful in this role, the ideal candidate will have:

• Post-secondary qualifications in Social Work / Welfare or related field, ideal but not essential. 
• Demonstrated experience working with children and families in the child protection area.
• The ability to work effectively in a care team situation and the ability to manage complex relationships and interactions.
• Experience in supporting young people to grow and develop.
• Demonstrated experience in working with traumatised young people.
• The ability to maintain accurate and accessible client records and reports

How to apply

Click APPLY NOW to submit your interest and we’ll be in touch shortly. We’ll be reviewing applications as they come through as we’re keen to engage with someone.

Please note, interviews may commence prior to application’s closing.

If you have questions about the opportunity, please contact Rhyannon Grant – Team Leader, Foster Care at [email protected] using the subject line: Case Manager - Foster Care - Horsham enquiry via EthicalJobs, or 5362 4000 (during business hours).

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse range of services across Victoria and Tasmania.

Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org 

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 relevant Working with Children Check in your State prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

Uniting is also committed to equal opportunity and ensuring the workplace is reflective of the community. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability.