• Join a growing not-for-profit organisation
• $95,267.90 – $104,092.72 + super + generous salary packaging benefits
• Full time 12 month contract (extension subject to funding)

About Us

Children’s Ground is working to create an environment where families realise their aspirations for the next generation of children to be free from trauma and suffering, enjoy equity and safety, be able to grow into adulthood happy and healthy, and have agency over their social, cultural, political and economic life.  To learn more about Children’s Ground and the work we do, visit our website:  https://www.childrensground.org.au

About the Job

The Social, Emotional & Wellbeing Practitioner will be a member of a multi-disciplinary team that delivers the Children’s Ground Family Health and Wellbeing Framework to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes for the community. This will include the recognition and support of local cultural knowledge systems and practices, and the agency of consumers. In addition, we know that the history of colonisation in Australia continues to have an ongoing devastating impact on Indigenous families and communities. Genocide, dispossession, segregation, assimilation and loss of land rights are part of the context for all Indigenous Australians.  

This position will be responsible for co-designing a strengths-based therapeutic framework and service with First Nations people that will work across the Children’s Ground Learning and Health and Wellbeing platforms. Working collaboratively with the Health Team, you will develop and implement family health plans with individuals and families and create and deliver responses to population health needs with the local community.

Working collaboratively with the Health Team, you will develop and implement family health plans with individuals and families, and create and deliver responses to population health needs with the local community.

View the full position description here:  https://www.childrensground.org.au/page/17/join-us

About You

We are seeking an innovative, suitably qualified and experienced Social, Emotional & Wellbeing Practitioner to join our dynamic and innovative Health Team.  You will have experience working with First Nations communities and an understanding of the effects of colonisation, disempowerment and intergenerational trauma and a demonstrated commitment to social justice. To be successful in this position, you will have strong relationship, networking and communication skills – both verbal and written, have a collaborative approach and be a self-starter who thrives in an environment that is ambiguous and complex and thinks systemically. Ideally, you will be a First Nations person.

We invite you to walk with us on this unique journey…

Please apply via Seek and upload your current resume and two-page pitch. 

Your pitch should tell us more about who you are, what you are passionate about, what interests you about the role and why you may be a good fit for Children’s Ground and this position, along with your current resume.

Applications close at 5pm on Friday 18th August 2023.

In line with our workforce development strategy, Children’s Ground strongly encourages and supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants to apply.