Team Leader, Family Services
Location
Bendigo
EFT
- 45 hours per fortnight, continuing position.
About the role
At CatholicCare Victoria we’re committed to empowering communities and building strength and resilience, to enable everyone to reach their full potential and live life to the full.
The Family Services program aims to promote strong families with children who ae safe, healthy, resilient and thriving; and parents and carers who are supported to create safe and nurturing home environments.
Along this continuum of support, the Family Services program provides responsive, flexible and sustainable support to children and families with the intensity that is required at the point when it is needed.
The Team Leader, Family Services works with the other Team Leaders in the program across CatholicCare Victoria. Team Leaders provide support and supervision to practitioners engaged with children, young people and parents/caregivers in a child focused, empowering and meaningful way. Using a Relational Approach, practitioners work with families to Connect; Understand; Link-Up; Build and Empower; and Create Opportunities. Close working relationships with other stakeholders, including Child Protection, are built to ensure that children can remain in, or return to families safely.
Team Leaders and Practitioners work collaboratively and collectively with service providers. Delivery of rapid, flexible, culturally safe and intensive service when and where families need them and are delivered through a lead practitioner model supported by a care team approach.
Specifically, the position is responsible for:
- Supporting Family Services Practitioners to work with the Best Interest Case Practice Framework.
- Supporting Family Services Practitioners to conduct and develop assessments and time limited case practice interventions that lead to improved outcomes for children which include safety and stability within families.
- Using approaches that consider the best interests of the child, trauma informed practices, knowledge of child development, attachment theories, family preservation and reunification principles, and other relevant frameworks.
- Coordinating and participate in case load allocation processes.
- Providing regular supervision (individual/group/reflective practice sessions) to all team members which is reflective, strengths based and trauma informed.
To be considered for this position, applicants require:
- Relevant tertiary qualification, preferably in Social Work, Psychology, Human Services or Community Development or similar related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience in the delivery of health, social or community services.
- Demonstrated experience in providing professional supervision to client-facing employees and students in the delivery of social services programs.
- Advanced knowledge and application of relevant theories, intervention approaches and understanding of the causes of family breakdown, child safety and child development, including coaching and support practitioners and specialist practitioners.
- Advanced understanding of the impacts of trauma on children and adults and demonstrated experience in the application of approaches for working effectively where trauma is featured.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the Best Interest Case Practice Framework, MARAM framework and an understanding of outcome measurement, goal setting and review and family safety planning.
Contact
People Team
Download the position description
How to apply
Please submit the form to apply for the role. When applying please include:
- a cover letter
- your current resume
- responses to the position’s key requirements, if applying for management positions only
- three professional referees
Only short-listed applicants will be contacted for an interview. Psychometric and other assessments may also be required.
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