Social Futures is a voice for social change in regional Australia, helping to create connected, resilient communities. With more than 45 years’ industry experience, we are a community service leader, striving to create change through our work across homelessness and housing supports, youth and family services, sector advocacy and programs that promote genuine participation for people with disability.
What Social Futures Offers:
- Generous Salary packaging options
- Staff Well-being Program
- Flexible working options
- Opportunity to bank additional days leave per year
- Access to ongoing Learning and Development
- Staff Recognition Program and Organisational Celebration Events
Social Futures is an equal opportunity employer and will actively recruit our workforce from key communities; including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTIQSB and people living with a disability, people with lived experience and people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
Social Futures is committed to prioritising the safety and well-being of children and upholds the National Child Safe Principles. Working with Children, National Police Check and COVID Vaccination are mandatory requirements for all staff.
The Mijung Jarjums Kids in Mind program supports children and young people aged up to 18 years and their families, who are showing signs of, or are at risk of, developing mental illness.
The program provides accessible, flexible, high-quality, integrated, and responsive care, through the provision of individual and/or family therapeutic interventions and case management. The program scope allows creative, innovative and expressive forms of therapeutic intervention with the child or young person goals at the forefront.
The program aims to:
- support children and young people to have improved mental health and well-being,
- better manage any negative impacts of mental health/well- being matters on their lives, and reach their full potential,
- support families and carers to better understand and their children and young people,
- increase mental health awareness, literacy, and capacity in the community.
The Program Worker will have experience working in diverse settings with children and young people and their families to improve mental health outcomes. This includes, assessment of needs, provision of appropriate targeted therapeutic interventions, safety planning and risk assessment, goal planning and ongoing case management with support to access community and health services where required.
Mijung Jarjums provides supports from a newly established and purpose-built space, with the ability to provide outreach supports to children and young people in community and school settings.
Applications will close Tuesday, 13th December
To access a position description please click apply or click here [link removed]. For more information regarding the role, please contact Holly Loveday on 0407 787 595.
Please note that only those who adequately address the Selection Criteria will be considered for shortlist.