About Kummara
Proudly serving the South East Qld community since 1999, Kummara provides emergency support, counselling, family support and assistance in the field of child protection, health and wellbeing to local Indigenous and non-Indigenous families in South East Qld. We work in partnership with a number of government and community organisations across South East Queensland to improve the health and well-being of our communities.
Position Summary
The purpose of this role is to provide effective and meaningful leadership and management oversight to a team of practitioners ensuring quality service delivery that is nurturing, promotes healing, builds resilience and capacity in children, parents, families and the wider Community which allows family and community to safely care for and protect their children. This role involves:
- Leadership and management of a team, including team building, staff management, supervision and annual performance reviews.
- Building a vision for the service and achieving key performance indicators for the service and staff.
- Risk management.
- Service monitoring and reporting in accordance with scope of service and the organisational strategic plan.
- Leading growth and development of the service to ensure ongoing improved practice and service outcomes through a process of continuous improvement and client/stakeholder surveys.
- Contributing to ongoing organisational continuous improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- Tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, or Behavioural Science, or tertiary qualifications in a related field with significant experience.
- Full Registration as and if required by your profession.
- A minimum of 5 years post-graduate experience in similar programs.
- A minimum of 2 years demonstrated experience in leading and managing teams in similar settings.
- Experience in working with at-risk children, young people and families, who are subject to child protection statutory interventions.
- Experience in or knowledge of early intervention and family support practices ranging from Secondary family support to Intensive Family Preservation and Intensive Family Reunification models of practice.
- Non-judgmental attitude.
- Well-developed task and time management skills.
- High degree of motivation, initiative and creativity.
- Commitment to and leadership in Kummara’s Family Partnerships Model or demonstrated ability to embed service models and qualities in practice.
Mandatory Requirements
- Positive Notice, Working with Children Suitability (Blue Card).
- Current valid Queensland drivers licence.
Entitlements:
- As an employee of Kummara you will be entitled to salary packaging – an additional $15, 900 on top of your salary and super entitlements.
- Access to Rostered Day Off
How to apply:
Applications are to be submitted directly through SEEK. Interviews will take place upon suitable candidate applications being received therefore the job advertisement may close sooner than the noted date below.
Applications to be submitted by 5PM Monday 18th September, 2023.