Kinship Care Practitioner
EFT
45 hours per fortnight, continuing position
Location
Swan Hill
Closing Date
Sunday 27 April 2024
Contact
Andrea Stewart, Team Leader Family Services
T 0418 905 359 | E people&culture@catholiccarevic.org.au
CatholicCare Victoria is committed to building thriving communities through disrupting the cycle of disadvantage. Kinship Care is the care provided by relatives or a member of a child’s broader network when a child cannot live with their parents.
Statutory Kinship Care placements occur when Child Protection intervene, and a decision is made that a child is placed or remains with a relative or other community member.
Working as a Kinship Care Practitioner you will support Kinship Care families to care for children’s safety, stability, and development. You will provide new kinship placements with family services support, and flexible brokerage, which will maintain and promote the stability of the placement.
The position will also supervise and support case contracted Kinship Care placements to achieve permanency for children in out-of-home care. The position requires regular travel outside the office base to outreach to client homes or other designated outpost facilities.
Specifically, the position is responsible for:
- Facilitating access through assertive outreach and flexible service delivery.
- Providing case management to new and long-term Kinship Care placements.
- Supporting kinship families to strengthen family relationships and community support networks.
- Adhering to Kinship Care practice guidelines, including the Best Interests Case Practice Model and relevant guidance in the Child Protection Manual.
- Participating in collaborative problem-solving and conflict resolution.
- Ensuring the accurate and timely entry of data as outlined in organisational and program guidelines.
To be considered for this position, applicants require:
- Tertiary qualifications in community services, psychology, social work, or child welfare.
- Demonstrated experience in care coordination or case management, including intake, assessment and case planning within the Best Interests Case Practice Model, and the application of risk and needs assessment frameworks..
- Demonstrated efficient time management and productivity achievements.
- Knowledge of contemporary child development theories, the impact of childhood trauma and evidence-based practice.
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