Kinship Care Practitioner Maternity Leave Cover

NGATANWAAR (Welcome)

we are seeking the services of a Kinship Care Practitioner for a 12 month period to cover Maternity Leave

Work in an appreciative and supportive environment that offers generous remuneration including tax savings and additional leave where you will achieve real and meaningful outcomes that positively affect our community.

Established in 1979 Gunditjmara Aboriginal Cooperatives vision is simple: Empower the individual the family wins Empower the family the community wins Empower the community our culture wins. Our team of dedicated professionals work together to achieve this outcome as evidenced in our latest audit where we received two rare commendations Workforce Development and Diversity & Cultural Safety. Put simply this is a great and highly supportive place to work.

THE ROLE

The Kinship Care Practitioner is responsible for the provision of case management of children and young people up to the age of 17 years who are living with a kinship family.

Working from a trauma informed lens and actively embedding new learnings this role looks after children and young people when a family needs support in cases of family conflict if there is a significant risk of harm or abuse or assist the child/ young person and kinship family to adjust to the changes within the kinship home environment. This position requires the ability to establish and maintain excellent working relationships with other agencies community groups kinship family extended family and parents to help achieve successful outcomes that support the child their family and the broader community.

This position is also required to provide support services to help the children and young people to cope with their experiences and assist their families to deal with the issues that led to the placement of their child. This includes support and supervision of volunteer care givers. This requires the understanding and application of a number of service frameworks including: the Best Interest and Looking After Children frameworks developmental theory attachment and trauma theory solution focused and task centred models and mediation.

The Kinship Care Practitioner is required to develop trusting and supportive relationships with children young people families and their care givers understanding the issues being faced. The ability to advocate and provide excellent customer service to this client group is also required whilst being able to develop innovative and flexible solutions to deliver the Kinship Care program.

In this role the incumbent is expected to have a sound knowledge of the principles and processes of relevant legislation pertaining to children young people and their families.

This position also requires the incumbent to have knowledge of trauma informed care & ability to undertake or capacity to undertake further training as required specific to the program area.

This position is required to establish appropriate community contacts develop and maintain professional working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders and funding partners in the provision of the programs services to achieve improved outcomes for clients.

THE IDEAL PERSON FOR THIS ROLE

Essential

• Able to communicate with clients management and employees in an effective manner.
• Ability to act cooperatively reasonably and in a friendly manner to promote workplace harmony and team effectiveness.
• Write reports and correspondence in field of expertise.
• Selfmotivated.
• Innovative forward thinking.
• Prepared to learn and develop.
• Team orientated.
• Customer focused.
• Able to present themselves and their work in a way that enhances the public image of GAC.
• Willing to try new ideas and participate in change.
• Focused on health and safety in their work.
• Able to be selfmanaging.
• Must comply with reference and qualification checks prior to employment (and present originals of qualification updates for copying and updating of training registers).
• Must be physically and mentally capable of carrying out duties of the position.
• Must comply with GACs Employee Immunisation policy.
• Able to pass and maintain:

• A National Police check (at the organisations expense).
• A Victorian Employee Working with Children Check (at the organisations expense).
• Other probity checks as may be mandated from timetotime.
• Current Victorian Drivers License.

HOW TO APPLY

Position descriptions are available on request by emailing

Please forward your covering letter (addressing the key selection criteria) and resume to .

We are looking to fill these position ASAP however we will wait for the right candidate so get in quick.

We are a Child Safe organisation. This means that any job offer will be subject to strict screening processes and proof of immunisation (both childhood & Covid). See the position description for further information.

For further information please contact Sally Goullet on