Kinship First Supports Case Worker
Job No:
Berry2609
Location:
Shepparton or Seymour
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Shepparton or Seymour location
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Full time or Part time positions available until June 2019!
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An exciting opportunity to develop your case support skills!
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Increase your salary with Salary Packaging benefits!
Join Victoria’s largest independent child welfare organisation and become a vital part of a team that never gives up doing whatever it takes for kids. We believe everyone should have a good childhood, growing up in families and communities where they feel safe, nurtured and have hope for the future.
Berry Street is a provider of the kinship care which is a support service designed to assist and support kinship carers provide care to children and young people from within their family or extended family network.
This role can be based at our Shepparton or Seymour Office, and requires outreach services to be provided to the City of Greater Shepparton, Moira, Strathbogie, Mitchell and Murrindindi Shires.
The position is part of the new Kinship care model and is intended to provide timely comprehensive assessment, identification of needs, access to kinship family services support and flexible brokerage to assist in establishing and supporting kinship placements.
Primary objectives of the role:
- To undertake comprehensive assessments at the time kinship placements are first made, assisting Child protection to determine the suitability of the placement, and linking carers and children with a level of support specific to their need.
- To provide financial support to carers through the early provision of flexible brokerage to address immediate material and financial needs.
- To build the capacity of the kinship carers to better understand and respond to the needs of the children and young people in their care, promoting their safety, stability and development through the provision of targeted family services support.
About you:
- An appropriate tertiary qualification in Psychology, Social Work, or related discipline
- Ability to actively engage kinship families in decision-making processes
- An understanding of the inter-generational factors and complex inter-relationships between extended family members that can impact kinship placements.
- An ability to work with children, young people and families through an attachment and trauma based lens.
Queries to Sharelle Davidson (Senior Manager, Children & Family Services), on (03) 5822 8100
Applications addressing the key selection criteria should be submitted by 11pm on Sunday, 14 October 2018
To download the Position Description, please click here
To download the Key Selection Criteria template, please click here
Berry Street are committed to the safety, participation and empowerment of all children, including those with a disability and culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds. Berry Street are also committed to cultural safety, inclusion and empowerment of Aboriginal children, their families and communities. Comprehensive reference and background checking will be undertaken, including a Working with Children Check and police check. Aboriginal people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply.