About the Opportunity

 This is a full-time fixed term contract working 35 hours/ week until June 2024 with likely extension. Based in Macgregor, ACT.

As a Family Worker your role will be to coordinate, implement and evaluate parent education groups, therapeutic parent support groups and provide individual support to parents. This role requires a passionate and sensitive professional to work collaboratively within our team to build parenting capacity. You need to have a sound understanding of child protection, assessment skills, strong communication and the ability to build positive working relationships. You will be working with parents to ensure their homes are safe, supportive and nurturing.  

Experience and understanding of the role of fathers in family structures along with the developmental needs of children will be highly regarded.

Who are we?

The Newpin program specialises in the development of emotional maturity and well-being of parents who have children in care due to child protection concerns. Newpin works to strengthen the skills that parents need to manage the practical and emotional challenges in the parenting of their child/ren; as well as increasing the elements of safety within the family so that children may return safely to their parents’ care.

What you need to succeed:

• Must hold a minimum Bachelor level qualification in areas such as social sciences or welfare which is relevant to the role.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working with parents using a strengths-based approach.
• Demonstrated skills and experience facilitating therapeutic support and psycho-educational group work programs
• Demonstrated ability engaging with families in crisis and working in partnership with them to achieve their goals
• Demonstrated assessment ability
• Experience developing strategies to encourage parents from a range of socio-economic and cultural backgrounds to participate in family-related programs and activities (desirable)
• Experience of working with diversity including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and culturally and linguistically diverse families.
• Working with Vulnerable Persons Check

In return we offer

• Salary from $87,997 pa, plus super and access to generous salary packaging options
• Access to a range of employee benefits (U-Rewards program, flex time and additional week of annual leave over Christmas, Benestar Employee Assistance Program and the Uniting With Hearts Reward and Recognition Program
• Ongoing professional and personal development opportunities across our varied service streams.

Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks which may include a National Police Check and Reference Checks.

For more information about the role, email Soraya Kauhiva [email protected] from the Uniting Talent Team.

Applications close: Tuesday, 28 November 2023