Case Manager – Kinship Care

Job No: Berry3312
Location: Shepparton

  • Shepparton location
  • Full time permanent role
  • Salary package equivalent to $93,000.00 (inclusive of super and salary packaging)

 

Join Victoria’s largest independent child welfare organisation and become a vital part of a team that never gives up doing whatever it takes for kids. We believe everyone should have a good childhood, growing up in families and communities where they feel safe, nurtured and have hope for the future.

About the role:

Berry Street (Hume) provides Home Based Care (HBC) services in the Hume Region (West Hume sub-regional area inclusive of Goulburn Valley and Lower Hume Catchments) of Victoria. The program provides General, Complex and Therapeutic HBC for children and young people who are unable to live with their own families and kinship care. Most children and young people are placed in out of home care following child protection intervention. A small number are in care on a voluntary basis. Voluntary and statutory placements can be of a short- or long-term nature.

You will have demonstrated ability to effectively engage with children, young people and their kinship families and a good understanding of the inter-generational factors and complex relationships between extended family members that can impact kinship placements.

About you:

You will have demonstrated ability to effectively engage with children, young people and their kinship families and a good understanding of the inter-generational factors and complex relationships between extended family members that can impact kinship placements.

Experience working with children, young people and families through an attachment and trauma-based lens is essential.

This role requires a tertiary qualification in Social Work, Youth Work or related discipline along with knowledge of the Children, Youth and Families Act (2005), Protection and Care’s Best Interest planning principles and procedures and other relevant legislation.

Objectives of the role:

  • To enhance and build on the available formal and informal family and community supports for children living in kinship arrangements
  • To assist families, provide the best possible care arrangements for children unable to live with their birth parents
  • To provide case management services to statutory kinship care placements

For further information about this role, please refer to the position description.

What can Berry Street offer you?

  • Access to Salary Packaging (up to $15,900 per annum, plus additional packaging available for meals/accommodation)
  • Flexible work arrangements and generous leave conditions
  • Access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), including access for staff members’ immediate family

How to Apply:

Applications including resume and cover letter to be submitted by 23:00pm on Sunday, 27 October 2019

Queries to Sharelle Davidson - Senior Manager Home Based Care on 5822 8100 

Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and National Police Check.

Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify with a sexual and or gender minority identity. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.

Comprehensive reference and background checking will be undertaken, including a Working with Children Check and police check. Aboriginal people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply.

 

 

 

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