Your role:

The role involves the provision of an in-home family casework service, working in partnership with families with the aim of strengthening parenting capacity and family resilience. The work involves taking steps to reduce risks to children's safety and wellbeing and that of other family members, as well as working with families to empower them to enhance their parenting capacity and family functioning and therefore to improve outcomes for children.

As a senior practitioner your role is to take on the more complex cases, offer secondary consult and support others to maintain high levels of service provision to families.

The skills you will use day to day:

• Creating viable safety plans with families to mitigate risks from FV, suicidality, and for children with high risk social behaviours.
• Providing support to colleagues in the team including debriefing as well as supporting student placements.
• Create and chair multi-disciplinary, wrap-around care teams to enhance family safety, stability and wellbeing, with planned ongoing support in line with increasing family capacity.
• A good understanding of the social context of child abuse and neglect and experience in applying relevant theoretical approaches to deliver outcomes.
• Conduct risk and needs assessments using relevant and contemporary frameworks, theory, and practice models.
• Use of ECMS for all case records and data
• Undertaking initial comprehensive Best Interests Assessments (BIA) and BIA update assessments at closure
• Completing initial and closing North Carolina Family Assessment Scale (NCFAS)
• Skills in case management, including developing community linkages.

Make a move:

• A salary starting at around $110,000 plus super plus salary packaging (Level 6 SCHADS)
• Negotiable through the increments dependent upon experience.
• Office location: Lilydale
• Permanent. Full time hours.
• We take the Health and Wellbeing of our people seriously offering a Well Worth It! Program, Fitness Passport, EIP and EAP.
• Access to discounted health insurance as well!
• A diverse and inclusive workplace for you to feel safe, acknowledged and included.
• Our people are our biggest asset, we will support you to progress your career with a dedicated L&D team.
• A workplace with Rainbow Tick Accreditation and DCA Inclusive Employer recognition.

What our people say- “I've genuinely never thought about going to another organisation. The opportunities, the innovation, the commitment to change and working with vulnerable families, young people and communities. It sounds really cliche, but you come into this work to make a difference and you can do that here. We work really hard to make differences in those spaces.”

Ready to take the next step:

Could you please apply for the role before midnight on Wednesday 12th November.

For a Detailed Position Description please take a look here: Senior Family Services Practitioner PD FS E AW6 112023 V1.0 (1).pdf

To discuss the role in more detail please reach out to Rachel Misson, Program Manager via email at [email protected]

Please Note: It is mandatory for the successful applicant to hold a current Working with Children Check and be prepared to undergo a National Criminal History Check prior to commencement.

Anglicare Victoria acknowledges Aboriginal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we operate. We commit to working respectfully to honour their ongoing cultural and spiritual connections to this country.

Diversity and inclusivity are important to Anglicare Victoria and we are committed to ensuring our workplace and services reflect this. Everyone is welcome at Anglicare Victoria, regardless of age, ethnicity, cultural background, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation and physical ability.