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Summary about this job

Child Welfare, Youth & Family Services

Company: Foundations Care

Location: Toowoomba & Darling Downs

Work type: Full Time

Salary: $50,000 - $54,999

Phone: +61-2-4355-7749

Fax: +61-7-9862-8205

E-mail: n\a

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Detail information about job Case Worker. Terms and conditions vacancy

 Foundations Care is a not for profit organisation, providing a variety of family support services with experienced and professional staff. Foundations Care prides itself on being child-focused in its operations, with particular attention placed on each child's emotional and developmental needs, as well as the overall needs of families. Out of Home Care is a part of Foundations Care. Out of Home Care provides a number of Foster Care and Kinship Programs and Child Safety Residential services in WA, NSW and QLD.

Position

The primary purpose of this position is to support carers; to assist them with supporting children and young people be safe and achieve their individual goals and objectives. We aim to assist carers; through support, education and training; to provide children and young people in their care with safety, access to social and educational opportunities, community access, daily living skill development and increased physical / psychological wellbeing.

Skills and Experience

To be successful in this role you must have the following:

Demonstrated significant knowledge and experience relevant to the delivery of service including;

  • foster care and kinship programs
  • well-developed casework and group facilitation skills
  • experience of working with indigenous and culturally diverse families and communities and
  • experience in the engagement, assessment and intervention with children and relevant stakeholders

Demonstrated commitment to achieving positive outcomes for young people using a valuing and strengths based approach.

Excellent oral and written communication skills, including debriefing, conflict resolution, negotiation, mediation, public speaking, promotional communication and reporting writing.

The Case Worker will either:

  • have completed or is currently completing a relevant diploma or tertiary qualification; or
  • have a less formal qualification with substantial years of relevant experience and specialized knowledge and skills sufficient to perform the role

Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment and Training would be an advantage but not essential

Location

This role is based in our Toowoomba office. Application closes on 24th July 2018.

To see position description for this job go to: https://csgroup.org.au/work-for-us/vacancies

 

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