Flourish Community Solutions provide intensive family support, parent mentoring, and early intervention solutions to young people and families in need. Working alongside families wherever they are in their journey with a focus on keeping families together. 

Servicing families and communities across Australia, Flourish Community Solutions, deliver a high standard of specialist intervention, psychosocial education, parenting guidance, and consultation to facilitate growth and achieve better outcomes for families and communities.

Our Values:

People First, Compassion, Empowerment

Purpose: Lifting others up to achieve their true potential

Your Opportunity:

In this role, you will facilitate therapeutic individualized support to achieve sustainable change in families with complex needs, whilst working alongside the family to prevent a family from entering or re-entering the statutory child protection system. 

Daily direct work with families and young people to guide, mentor and facilitate their development, connect them to services and community, support and guide them in safe behavior or safe parenting, and drive their intervention journey forward with them at the forefront.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Provide specialist therapeutic intervention to children and families experiencing child protection issues, direct youth support, community connection or parenting upskilling, and psychosocial support.
• Engage with families and young people, explore mutual obligations, complete required forms and develop collaborative goals from a strengths-based, child-centered, family-focused practice framework
• Engage with clients based on a professional assessment of critically-of-needs, risk assessment, and safety planning alongside the family.
• Engage with the community, parents, and children to enhance their opportunities, reduce their vulnerabilities and connect to their community
• Provide early intervention-focused services, support families to strengthen the care and protection of children living at home, strengthen parenting practice and increase the safety and wellbeing of the family.
• Develop and drive the case plan working alongside families and stakeholders, providing appropriate links and connections where possible
• Respect and seek cultural advice to ensure client families have access to a range of culturally safe support options, where appropriate.

Requirements for Success:

Desirable  – Qualifications in Youth Work, Youth Justice, Community Support, Social Work, Social Welfare, teaching, etc.

Consideration – extensive proven experience in this field.

• Experience in implementing therapeutic interventions with young people and/or families.
• Understanding of Child Protection legislation and child protection concerns and risk factors
• Demonstrated understanding of Early Intervention principles in working with families with multiple and complex needs
• Knowledge and awareness of community and regional connections to assist clients with their access to community
• Understanding of Vicarious Trauma and Self-Care to manage the personal impact of exposure to critical and complex issues
• Demonstrated crisis management, referral, and advocacy skills.
• Case management experience.
• Ability to perform casework with a level of autonomy, seeking support from upline when required.
• Have a creative perspective when working with case management.

We would like to encourage people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander to apply. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake referee checks and have a clearance to work with children/vulnerable people. As a contractor, you will work under your own ABN and be allocated pieces of work.

Why work with us?

Attractive remuneration based on individual qualifications and experience

Travel Allowance

QLeave allowance

A variety of working hours/flexibility – can align with another job if needed

Full and part-time opportunities are available – may lead to permanent 

Opportunities for other areas of work such as providing training, assessment, outreach, or consultancy (qualification dependant)

Supervision & Guidance from a highly skilled management team

Training opportunities and professional development and guidance

Work alongside a multidisciplinary team

An inclusive, collaborative, and empowering culture

How to apply

 Current resume or direct email to [email protected]

Applications are shortlisted as they are received. Please apply as soon as possible to be considered. Thank you