• Permanent full-time position

About the opportunity

As a FPRR Practitioner, you will provide intensive wraparound case management services to vulnerable families who present with complex needs. You will deliver assertive outreach, undertake risk assessments, participate in care team planning and develop creative interventions to engage hard-to-reach families. Working as part of collaborative care team, you will assist families to address the safety and developmental needs of children and young people, and support parents to enhance their resilience and self-determination.

About you

You will bring with you:

• A tertiary qualification in child and family welfare or a related discipline
• Previous experience within the child, youth and family welfare sector
• An understanding of theoretical approaches relevant to working with infants, children, young people and families, including the Best Interests Framework
• Demonstrated ability to undertake risk assessments and plan and implement appropriate intervention strategies to engage families
• A strengths-based, child and family centered approach to case management

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How to apply

Click APPLY to submit your interest. We’ll be reviewing applications as they come through and conducting interviews prior to applications closing. Please send your application through as a priority as we’re keen to engage with someone.

If you have any questions about the opportunity, please contact Megan Stanbridge – Manager, Children Youth & Families on 03 5144 7777.

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and relevant Working with Children Check in your State prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

Uniting is also committed to equal opportunity and ensuring the workplace is reflective of the community. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability.