• Metro Melbourne 
• Permanent – minimum 3 days per week
• Highly competitive salary package
• Great opportunities for Grade 1 Social Workers

Fantastic opportunity to join a leading and influential provider of charitable and social services who deliver excellence in a broad range of child, family and youth services, family relationship services, school counselling and pastoral care services, social housing, employment and advocacy services.

Role:

• Using a Care Team Approach, coordinate, facilitate and deliver a rapid, culturally safe, flexible and intensive service to children and their families.
• Use approaches that consider the best interests of the child, trauma informed practices, knowledge of child development, attachment theories, family preservation and reunification principles, and other relevant frameworks.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the causes of family violence and the theoretical underpinnings of working with families where family violence is an issue.
• Develop goals, action plans and safety plans with families through direct work with individuals and groups as appropriate.

  
Required:

• Tertiary qualifications in Social Work, Welfare or other relevant tertiary study.
• Experience in family services, DV or child protection is required
• Knowledge of relevant theories, intervention approaches and understanding of the causes of family breakdown, child safety and child development.
• Experience working within a correctional environment is desirable.
• Current driver’s licence.
• Current Victorian Working with Children Check.
• Current Australia-wide Police Check.