Full time position (76 fortnightly hours) for fixed term from 14 January 2025 - 27 June 2025 for a Parental Leave Cover $97,950?+ Super + Salary Packaging* (to increase your take home pay) Located in Elizabeth Join us to advance your career while enjoying the unique opportunity to work directly with clients and lead a team dedicated to serving children and young people up to 18 years old.
This role allows you to make a meaningful impact while developing your professional skills in a supportive environment.
You're welcome at RASA Our belief in the transformative power of relationships lies at the heart of everything we do.
You will be joining an inclusive, supportive and welcoming culture.
Relationships Australia South Australia (RASA) Values are Diversity, Respect, Belonging and Learning and this is reflected in the way we work and treat each other.
Our teams embrace people from a wide range of cultures, backgrounds, beliefs, sexual and gender identities.
We understand that your relationships are important, so we believe in being flexible, where possible, to support you to balance your work and personal commitments.
Who we are looking for To be successful in this role you will: Tertiary qualification (AQF Level 7) in Social Work, Psychology, or related discipline, or demonstrated knowledge and competencies appropriate to the work.
Extensive experience working with complex client matters.
Extensive experience working with children, youth, and families in a therapeutic context, including counselling and 1:1 work with children.
Experience in trauma informed practice.
Experience working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Experience working within the community services industry.
It would be a bonus if you: Experience in leadership and understanding of service provision.
Experience in community engagement.
Experience in providing practice supervision and skill development to other therapeutic workers providing services to children and young people.
What you will be doing ? The Coordinator is responsible for contributing to the development and delivery of the Family Mental Health Support Service (FMHSS) and the team's provision of timely and seamless access to holistically family orientated and culturally appropriate services that support early intervention support to children and young people up to the age of 18 years who are showing early signs of, or are at risk of developing, mental illness.
With management support, lead the FMHSS team to provide a direct service response to clients through intake, referral, advocacy, counselling, and collaborative case management.
Coordinate allocation of new clients to caseworkers and efficient management of the client allocation list.
Alongside RASA leadership (Management, CSO Senior Staff etc), develop and implement processes that support service promotion, service intake, referral, and provision of services to the FMHSS client base.
Conduct child centered assessments and risk screening of clients referred, working in a whole family context.
Undertake child focused and trauma informed case work with vulnerable and complex families.
Develop and deliver therapeutic and educational group programs that meet the objectives of the FMHSS program through schools, community and other areas as identified through consultation with RASA Management and wider community.
Provide practical assistance tailored to the needs and situation of each child, young person and family.
For more information you can read the full Position Description.
If this role is what you are looking for, we'd love to hear from you.
Enquiries: Any enquiries can be addressed to?Brad Sargent, 0438 753 534.
Relationships Australia South Australia is a Child Safe and Equal Opportunity Employer Please note that the services provided at RASA sites mean that our employees need to follow some specific requirements: A satisfactory DHS Working with Children Check A satisfactory National Criminal History Check Have had the three TGA approved and recognised COVID vaccine doses and provide the certificate.
If you can't comply, you are encouraged to have a confidential conversation with the hiring manager about your individual circumstances.
*How Salary Packaging can increase your take home pay Salary packing is an entitlement granted by the Federal Government to workers in approved non-government and health organisations.
Salary Packaging can increase your take home salary by creating tax free earnings.
In effect,?$15,899?of your wage can be paid tax free in each fringe benefit tax year.
This 'tax free' amount is in?addition?to the tax-free threshold of?$18,200?for income.
Follow the link to the?Salary Packaging information provided by AccessPay, our chosen provider,?to find out more.
About RASA Relationships Australia South Australia (RASA) is a not-for-profit, secular, community organisation, helping people to overcome difficulties and bring about positive change in their lives.
We offer services for families, couples and individuals of all ages, backgrounds and abilities.
To find out more about RASA go to rasa.org.au.
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