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Employee Benefits
Above Award Salary - $97,537.44 - $101,951.17 (Based on Qualifications and Experience).
11 Wellbeing Days (to support worker well-being) - in addition to Annual Leave (Pro-rata).
Awesome Not-for-Profit Salary Sacrificing options of up to $15,899 per FBT year.
Portable Long Service Leave (from eligible organisations).
Excellent Learning & Development opportunities.
About the Role
As the Senior Practitioner Home Based Care, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the coordination and delivery of Home Based Care services, including Therapeutic Foster Care within the Foster Care and Kinship Care programs. Working from a trauma-informed lens, you'll manage a complex therapeutic caseload while providing mentorship and guidance to practitioners. You'll apply a range of frameworks, such as the Best Interest Case Practice Model and Circle Therapeutic Foster Care, to ensure that children, young people, families, and caregivers receive the highest standard of care.
To be successful in this role you'll need to build trusting relationships, understand the unique challenges faced by clients, and work closely with the Team Leader to enhance service delivery. Your expertise in risk assessment, trauma-informed care, and legislation will be key to fostering positive outcomes. Additionally, you'll collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders and community partners to drive meaningful change and improve the lives of vulnerable children and families.
As our Senior Practitioner Home Based Care, you will be required to work autonomously and as part of a team, maintain accurate records, and actively participate in and contribute to program service planning, along with all annual improvement activities to achieve organisational outcomes. It is expected that this role will maintain a complex client load as well as mentoring and supporting other workers within the team.
Key Responsibilities
Provide Therapeutic Foster Care to Circle accredited households, children, and young people.
Coordinate and administer the programs in accordance with program service plan, service agreement, and funding body requirements.
Guide and mentor team members in relation to case practice, care teams, and contracted case management.
Undertake case work and case contracting of complex children, youth, and families.
Do your skills include:
Ability to hold a complex caseload and work therapeutically with children and young people in Out of Home Care.
An understanding of child development and factors that can impede a child's development, including early indicators and patterns of behaviour leading to cumulative harm.
Ability to make timely, sound decisions about interventions required, assessment, and decision-making in the best interests of the child/ren.
Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of appropriate legislation relevant to the role, case management practice, and the ability to adhere to policy and procedures.
Are your credentials:
A minimum qualification of a sector recognised and accredited Bachelor of Social Work or Diploma in Community Welfare Work or equivalent.
A current Drivers Licence.
About Brophy:
Brophy Family & Youth Services has supported children, young people, families, and the southwest Victorian community for almost 50 years. We live here; this is our community; we believe in people and in their ability to create the life they want.
At Brophy, you will join a team of just over 200 employees delivering over 40 programs and services across areas including youth engagement, mental health, family violence, foster care, housing support, employment support, and disability services.
At Brophy, our Vision is not just focused externally on our community – we feel just as passionate about our employees being meaningfully connected through their roles with us to create the life they want, and that as a workforce we achieve this together through innovation and healthy relationships, and by positively contributing to building an advantaged community.
Diversity and Inclusion at Brophy:
Brophy is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that ensures safety and a sense of belonging for everyone. We embrace individuals of diverse races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, religions, abilities, and nationalities, recognising the richness that varied experiences bring to our efforts in supporting individuals and building stronger communities.
Our commitment extends to actively listening, learning, and evolving to become an accessible, inclusive, and secure organisation for all, encompassing First Nations peoples, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, individuals with disabilities, and those with culturally diverse backgrounds.
For more information please contact Marion Noye Operations Manager - Home Based Care on ****** or 03 5561 8888.
Applications now open!
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