Part-time (3 days a week), maternity cover position based at our Early Years Hub at Browns Plains $45.05ph - $48.47ph Super Salary Packaging Join our multidisciplinary team and help us make lasting change to vulnerable families! Our Organisation At Benevolent we believe that every person deserves to live life on their own terms - loved, valued, and treated with dignity. For more than two centuries, The Benevolent Society has stood for that belief. Our vison is for a just society where everyone is valued, safe and belongs. We’re not for profit, independent, non-religious, and deeply committed to reconciliation. Your new role Our Early Years Centres are community hubs offering child health services, supported playgroups, family support and early childhood education. We focus on early intervention and prevention to ultimately empower children and families. We are a supportive, multidisciplinary team with a broad range of early childhood teachers and educators, social workers, child health nurses and allied health qualified professionals committed to high quality work providing wrap around early intervention services. We work across our 3 Early Years Centres located at Browns Plains, Acacia Ridge and Beaudesert. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy working closely with teams and partners to empower children and families to achieve their goals, this role is for you. Duties Provide timely and effective contact, advice, and referral services to the community and clients as our first point of contact. Support clients over the phone, virtually, or in-person and provide intervention and support. Work with a range of designated clients on a short-term basis, to undertake comprehensive assessments to develop, implement, monitor, and review their client plan outcomes, identify strengths and risks, and ensuring client engagement. Undertake psychosocial assessments to identify effective information and support. Explore options with clients to support them to make informed choices to address their immediate needs. Engage clients using age and situation-appropriate assessment and risk-minimisation processes, especially where there is risk of harm, family violence, or other child-protection concerns. Depending on the requirements of the service, you may be required to plan, develop and facilitate or co-facilitate groups and workshops relating to the service. Establish and maintain network relationships with key agencies, other providers, and referral services. Provide information, referral, and advocacy to support clients to access appropriate resources and services, both within The Benevolent Society and with external agencies and service providers. Our Benefits We support people to live their best life. That includes you, our employee. A ‘best life’ is unique to everyone and can change as life changes: Salary Benefits - You can package up to $15,900 pa of your pre-tax salary to pay for everyday expenses before income tax is calculated, meaning you take home even more pay! Recognition and Reward - Sector competitive remuneration, various recognition programs and access to long service leave after 5 years. Wellness - Stay fit with a Fitness passport, utilise our Employee Assistance Program, and even purchase additional leave. Professional Development - We tailor career development opportunities to all employees and volunteers for career enrichment, fulfilment, and growth. Our Reconciliation Commitment - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees are entitled up to 2 days paid plus up to 10 days unpaid cultural leave, as well as the option to be a voice on reference networking groups, the opportunity for cultural and professional development that supports career pathways and your social and emotional wellbeing. Skills and Experience As a qualified Social Worker, or Human Services professional, you will have: At least 12 months of Case Management Experience. Experience working with children or families in a child protection-focused role, including experience undertaking assessments. Experience providing counselling and/or working with children, young people, and vulnerable families in crisis situations. A clear understanding of child protection issues and client vulnerabilities such as drug and alcohol use, domestic violence, mental health issues, and the impact of trauma and the effect on child behaviour & development. Ability to quickly and effectively evaluate client needs and identify potential referrals in line with those needs and ability to work in high-pressure situations. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, relationship building skills, negotiation, liaison, ad advocacy skills. Capacity to engage with people from all walks of life including the local Aboriginal community and people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds. Current driver’s license. If you identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, then we want to hear from you. The Benevolent Society recognises and values cultural knowledge and wisdom of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, we therefore strongly encourage you to apply. We are strongly committed to being an Employer of Choice, one who offers, provides, and practices cultural safety in our workplace. Interested? Apply online today! To apply please follow the link and submit your current CV along with a 1 page cover letter discussing your reasons for applying and suitability for the role Have any questions? Call Christine on 04 27 297 909 for more details. Please click here for the Position Profile
