About ATSICHS Brisbane
ATSICHS Brisbane is a not-for-profit community-owned health and human services organization delivering on the unique health and wellbeing needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in greater Brisbane and Logan. We pride ourselves on providing health and human services, our way – supporting our people and community in our commitment to creating a flourishing future and lasting legacy for them and their families.
See more at our website - http://atsichsbrisbane.org.au
About the Role
The role is heavily outreach based, engaging families in their homes, and translating initial engagement into a strong ongoing partnership. Once engaged, the role will not identify the family issues in a practitioner-led assessment, rather deliver interventions that build family awareness and insight into their history and current family challenges in order for families to self-identify their key challenges and lead their own change.
Duties
The FWS Family Support Case Manager delivers targeted family wellbeing practice strategies to achieve the core family outcomes of the program, including:
- Build the parenting capability, skills and knowledge that promote flourishing child rearing
- Facilitate imbedding structured family routines that improve household management, healthy eating and quality family time
- Improving parental management of stress and personal wellbeing, including coordinating access to ATSICHS Mental Health Service (Social Health Team).
- Ensuring all children meet developmental milestones by facilitating family access to ATSICHS paediatric/Mums and Bubs medical services, including access to specialist allied health supports
- Improving financial health of families by achieving meaningful employment and/or training
- Improving school attendance and educational engagement of parents
- Enrolment in Kindergarten and family participation in early years playgroups
- Securing family safety
- Improving stable housing and family ability to maintain a tenancy
- Minimising AOD substance misuse by coordinating access to treatment services
- Improving family health by coordinating to ATSICHS medical clinics for annual preventative health assessment
- Improving family dental care by coordinating to ATSICHS dental clinics for annual preventative dental check-up.
Culture
We are a diverse, ambitious team excited about what we do. We value integrity, excellence, transparency, and accountability. We work as a team to make our customers and ourselves successful.
Benefits
Handsome annually salary package
Relaxed dress code
Perks and Bonuses
Salary Sacrifice Options – pay less tax
COVID-19 Requirement
Your immunization history as listed on the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) clearly shows at least 2 doses of COVID-19 vaccination details.
Required
Qualification and/or Experience:
· Current Cert 4 in Social Work, Human Services, Social Science, Health, Allied Health, Youth Work, Community Services, Child and Family Intervention with at least 12-months experience in a case management role
OR
· Current graduate university bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Human Services, Social Science, Health, Allied Health, Youth Work, Community Services, Criminology with at least a 10-week full-time placement in social service field.
Additional Requirements:
- Requirement to travel across the Logan and/or Brisbane region, as per program location.·
- Current drivers’ licence
- Flexibility to work outside core 8:30am-5pm business hours in meeting individual client needs and provide responsive care
- Working with Children’s Card (Blue Card) or be eligible to apply
- Working with disability (Yellow Card) or be eligible to apply
- Valid police check
How to apply
Applications can be submitted by following the links on the Recruitment page. Please note the advertising closing date is indicative only.
We reserve the right to close the advertisement before this date is reached. It is encouraged that you submit your application as soon as possible. Only successful applicants will be contacted.