The Team:
The purpose of the Child Safety and Wellbeing Service is to support the Department to create a child safe culture, implement strategies and take action to promote child safety and wellbeing.
Reporting to the Principal Policy Officer, you will work within a small team of dedicated staff in delivering child safeguarding training, education, and advice.
The position is located primarily in the north, with capacity to travel to the northwest.
The Role:
The Child Safety and Wellbeing Service (the Service) is a unit within the Department of Health, with the Child and Youth Safeguarding Advisor operating within the statewide Child Safety and Wellbeing team. The Child and Youth Safeguarding Advisor supports and guides the development of the Department’s child-safe culture, providing advice, delivering training, and building relationships with workers, which includes staff, students, volunteers and contractors, and other external stakeholders. The functions of the Child and Youth Safeguarding Advisor play an important role in liaising with workers regarding the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people.
You will need:
- Demonstrated knowledge, participation, and experience in undertaking child safeguarding activities within a healthcare or other equivalent, including actively promoting principles, policies, and procedures around mandatory reporting, with experience in facilitating and delivering multi-modal education and training to adult learners and providing individualised support as required.
- Well-developed interpersonal, communication, negotiation and conflict resolution skills including the demonstrated ability to support, advise and motivate workers, and effectively liaise with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a complex and sensitive environment, united by our shared purpose and model our CARE values, an understanding of trauma informed principles, ability to apply this approach to delivery of child safety and wellbeing programs and demonstrated high levels of personal resilience, flexibility and perseverance.
Note: - Please refer to the Statement of Duties for all the selection criteria of this position to address in your application.
Details of appointment:
Fixed term part time, day worker position, working up to 60.8 hours per fortnight, commencing as soon as possible for a period of 12 months.
*notwithstanding hours to be negotiated with the successful applicant.
Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time, part time, and casual vacancies.
Salary: $98,255 to $103,096 per annum (Pro rata). Our Employer 11.5% superannuation contribution is on top of this amount.
- Salary range is in accordance with Public Sector Unions Wages Agreement 2022
Benefits available to eligible candidates:
- Professional development and accelerated pathways.
- A range of leave entitlements, including study leave and Professional Development Support.
- Fitness Passport – You, and your family can access 40+ fitness facilities across Tasmania for just $13.95 per week per person, or $25.95 for a family.
Eligibility:
Successful applicants will be required to meet the essential criteria.
- Current Working with Children Registration
Applicants should note the following criteria are desirable:
Note: - Please refer to the Application Guide for more information of pre-employment check.
Download the Statement of Duties and any Associated Documents
We encourage you to review the Statement of Duties, Applicant Guide, prior to applying for an overview of the duties, program, selection process and application guidance.
Statement of Duties:
Application Guide:
How to apply:
Apply Online. Please click the "Apply" button on this screen to ensure that important questions about you are answered.
You will be prompted to complete a 1-2 page application detailing your experience, skills and knowledge as they relate to the attached Statement of Duties. A separate statement addressing the selection criteria in the Statement of Duties is not required.
For more information:
Applicants who require further information are encouraged to contact the Contact person for detailed information about the vacancy.
Ange Green
Principal Policy Officer - Child Safety and Wellbeing Service
0409 537 302
ange.green@health.tas.gov.au
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