• Leading community services organisation
• Salary packaging and competitive sector remuneration
• Permanent part time, 4 days per week
• Based at Dandenong

About the opportunity

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Family Services Practitioner to join our Family Services Program. The program supports families who are experiencing high levels of stress and difficulties that impact on parenting, family life and children’s well being. Responding to referrals from Child FIRST/The Orange Door, the program provides assertive outreach and home based supports.

This newly established position will coordinate all aspects of referral, entry, engagement and allocation of cases from Child FIRST/The Orange Door. The Senior Practitioner will undertake risk and needs assessments, deliver short term case management and provide an active holding function to children and families who are referred to the Family Services Program. Working collaboratively with Child Protection, the Senior Practitioner will support families to enhance parenting capacity, family functioning and promote child safety.

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 relevant degree qualification in social work, psychology or a related discipline.

• Considerable experience within the child, youth and family welfare sector
• Sound understanding of the Best Interests Framework and Children, Youth and Families Act 2005
• Well-developed risk assessment and risk management skills
• Proven ability to engage hard-to-reach families through assertive outreach
• A strengths-based, child-centred approach to case management
• Strong organisational and time management skills

How to Apply

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

• Cover letter (outlining your suitability according to the person specification in the position description)
• Current resume

Get in touch

Bask Cassar – Manager, Child and Family Services South
T: (03) 8792 8999

About Uniting

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

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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.

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.