Social Worker - Oamaru

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Detail information about job Social Worker - Oamaru. Terms and conditions vacancy

Job ID: 24506

• Promote the protection and wellbeing of children and young people
• Specialised role, focusing on Family Homes and children in care

Are you a qualified Social Worker who is passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people?

At Oranga Tamariki, we work with families and communities to help protect, support and care for children and young people. The role of Social Worker is varied and rewarding, and you'll be part of a supportive team who are instrumental in helping children, young people and their families to be safe, strong and thrive.

Our family homes are places of safety. Children and young people can get on with life while we work with families to find a permanent loving home. Your role will be to support carers in providing nurturing, safe and stable homes for children and young people.

This is a permanent position based at our Omaru site.

You’ll focus on building and maintaining our caregiver pool to provide the very best of care to children and young people. This role requires excellent assessment skills, and the ability to train carers. Supporting Caregivers and collaborating with the child's Social Worker will be a focus of the role. You'll also be working with other social services, agencies and providers to ensure the needs of the child or young person and their family are fully met.

Our team works from a strengths based perspective and we are fully committed to achieving positive change for the children, young people and their families in this community. We receive regular training and supervision, support each other and have a sense of humour.

We can offer you:     

• a salary range between $39,723 -  to $72,301  (based on your skills and experience)
• a challenging, fascinating and rewarding career
• a proactive plan around professional development and regular supervision
• a bi-cultural practice approach with the opportunity to work across various community partners and stakeholders
• the opportunity to work in a passionate and rewarding role where lives are changed
• to work within a value based Ministry where you will build and engage in a collaborative working style.

What else do you need to know before applying:

• exceptional listening skills – hear what the child or young person has to say
• proven ability to quickly build rapport with Tamariki and Rangatahi
• critical thinking – you know how to gather information and make good evidence based decisions
• a high degree of both verbal and written communication skills (you will need to write court reports)
• a commitment to bi-cultural practice and a culturally responsive approach (a good understanding of Tikanga Maori is essential)
• resilient, motivated and caring nature with a positive “can do” attitude
• flexibility to work an afterhours duty roster as required
• good computer navigation and typing skills
• full clean valid driver's licence
• New Zealand Citizenship or Permanent Resident status at the time of application.
• the knowledge and experience of community and social work best practices to provide advice and contribute to the development of policy and services.

If you are looking for the next challenge where accountability, integrity, courage, respect for self and others, and striving for excellence are important in your day to day job, then we would like to hear from you.

How to apply:

Internal Oranga Tamariki employees – please apply through your myHR portal at work.

External candidates - Only applications received directly through our Oranga Tamariki careers page at https://jobs.msd.govt.nz will be accepted.

If you have any questions about the role please contact Mary Lambert on [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you.

Applications close: 26 July 2018.  #LI-ORG

Position Description

http://www.msd.govt.nz/hr/documents/position-descriptions/mvcot/social-worker-services-for-children-and-families-pd.pdf