Children & Families Coordinator - Full Time
Job No:
S2863
Location:
Anglicare SQ - Children and Families - Gympie, QLD
About the Position
Our Intensive Family Support Service assists families who are concerned about some areas of their family life, particularly the safety and wellbeing of their children. The service helps families to identify their own strengths, set goals for themselves, provides practical home support and strive to support families to build a pathway to the life they want.
We also offer Foster & Kinship Care Programs, providing children and young people, who are not able to live with their own family, the opportunity to live in a safe nurturing family environment.
We are now looking for a degree-qualified Coordinator to provide support for both these programs. This is a newly created, full time position based at our Gympie office, covering the north of the Sunshine Coast region.
This role’s overall purpose within Anglicare Southern Queensland (Anglicare SQ) is to coordinate a Foster and Kinship care service; as well as an Intensive Family support Service including providing quality guidance, direction and supervision to:
- Intensive Family Support Service Case Workers to ensure the service is operated in accordance with service agreement requirements and fits with best practice in working with vulnerable and/or families at risk of entering the child protection system;
- Foster and Kinship Care Case Workers to ensure the recruitment, training, assessment and ongoing support of Foster and Kinship Carers is maintained as per legislative and service agreement requisites.
The Coordinator will also need to consider best practice in the foster care area including achieving outcomes as per the Queensland Out of Home Framework. This role is also responsible for ensuring that the Foster and Kinship Care program meets the standards set out by the Department of Communities (Child Safety Services) to ensure ongoing licencing of the program.
About You
A motivated and dedicated professional within the Foster Care or Family Intervention Services sector, your knowledge and background will include:
- Previous management and leadership experience with ability to motivate and support others
- Ability to provide guidance, direction and supervision to a team of Case Workers and Foster Carers
- Demonstrated skills in coordination, interaction and building effective, practical, respectful relationships with children, families and carers
- Proven ability to problem solve and make fast, effective and professional decisions
- Applied knowledge and understanding of the Child Protection System, and a genuine interest in this area
- Confident and capable using a practice framework that is child and family centred and culturally sensitive; knowledge of the Queensland Out of Home framework would be beneficial
- Skilled in the use of computers and at an intermediate level with Microsoft Suite
Some of your personal attributes will include:
- Excellent communication skills and confidence to relate to a wide range of people
- Highly motivated and outcomes driven
- Creative thinker who promotes this attribute within your team; ability to provide “outside the box” solutions
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills
- A focused and dedicated attitude to supporting children, families and carers
- The ability to work cooperatively in a team and develop strong, successful working relationships
Qualifications and documentation required:
- Tertiary level qualifications in a relevant field, including Social Work, Psychology, Social or Behavioural Sciences
- A open, clean Queensland Drivers Licence
- A current Blue Card (Working with Children)
- Eligibility to gain a successful suitability check through the Department of Communities Child Safety Services (LCS-2)
What We Offer
Along with the opportunity to join one of Queensland’s leading employers in the non-profit sector, you will also be offered:
- A newly created role, with full time hours
- A competitive salary and the opportunity to increase your take home pay with salary packaging
- Significant focus on learning, development and research-based practice which is supported by the management team
- A friendly and dedicated group of professionals who enjoy a collaborative, cohesive team environment
Show Your Interest
Apply now and be rewarded with a position that directly and positively influences the quality of life for our clients; working with an organisation that values your professional contribution and personal well-being.
People of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island heritage are strongly encouraged to apply.
To submit an application and to view a copy of the Position Description, click ‘Apply’ below or visit http://anglicaresq.org.au/career/ and refer to job number S2863
For further information please contact
Sue Mills on 0411 428 582
Applications close Sunday 21st May 2017
Shortlisted applicants will be asked to complete a Pre-Employment Assessment that requires disclosure of pre-existing injuries, illnesses or conditions that could reasonably be aggravated by performing the duties of this position.
About Us
Anglicare Southern Queensland is a proud member of the Anglicare Australia network. We provide the support you need for the life you want in partnership with government and other support organisations in response to identified care needs throughout southeast Queensland.
For over 140 years our staff have connected with people on every step of their life path, responding with compassion, creativity, commitment and courage to the needs of the members of our community who require support.
Every day the passionate staff and volunteers of Anglicare Southern Queensland are working to respond to growing community demand for our services. Whether it is providing nursing care and domestic assistance in the home, physiotherapy to enable the return of mobility, emergency accommodation for victims of domestic violence, working with foster carers in the care of vulnerable children, a safe caring environment for the elderly, skills training for young unemployed people or parental education and counselling, Anglicare Southern Queensland is here, to offer the best quality support to enable you to live the life that you want.
We also offer a range of specialist services within indigenous, homeless, multicultural and rural and remote communities.
The work of Anglicare Southern Queensland stretches from Cairns to Coolangatta, from Birdsville to Brisbane and reaches out to support to people of all ages with a variety of needs.
Anglicare Southern Queensland has a workforce of over 2500 people in Queensland across residential aged care, community care and a range of social services programs all working towards a happier, healthier community.