• Join a passionate team providing an integrated placement prevention and family reunification service
• Great organisation culture, salary packaging and fantastic benefits
• Full Time, Ongoing role based in Reservoir

About Uniting

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

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About the opportunity

Stronger Families provides a therapeutic model of assessment, intervention and case management support. We enable children and young people at imminent risk of being placed in care for the first time to remain at home, or to reunify families when safe to do so. 

The Senior Practitioner is responsible for the provision of practice support, guidance and mentoring of case workers to ensure work with clients is high quality, clinically sound and outcome focused. The role will ensure risk is appropriately and quickly identified and responded to, staff are well supported and high standards of practice care are followed. In addition, this role will involve carrying a caseload of families, either individually or co-working with colleagues.

This role contributes to the best interests of the child, is a family focused, culturally sensitive practice to improve client outcomes for parents and children.

About you

We would love to hear from you if you have:

• A relevant tertiary qualifications in Social Work or equivalent including Psychology, Family Therapy, Youth or Early Childhood Development
• Extensive demonstrated experience is preferred including experience working with children and young people at risk and vulnerable families.
• Demonstrated skills and experience in working with dis-empowered and vulnerable families, including capacity to engage clients and establish effective helping relationships,
• Work with clients to bring about change and an understanding of the issues involved in casework with children, young people and families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and Aboriginal families.
• Knowledge and experience of a range of relevant intervention strategies and frameworks,
• Demonstrated ability to meet timelines, targets and other key deliverables with excellent written and verbal communication skills, and report writing skills are essential.

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and well-being 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. 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.