Senior Child Safety Officers (SCSO) are responsible for ensuring the safety, belonging and wellbeing of all children and young people in the child protection process. The SCSO is responsible for delivering statutory child protection services including: assessment, intervention, casework and case management for complex cases.
The SCSO is also responsible for delivering services in accordance with legislation, practice guidelines and a strength based framework for practice. They will also be required to co-work with Child Safety Officers (CSO) and Child Safety Support Officers (CSSO) on complex and sensitive cases.
This role provides mentoring and support to develop the skills and knowledge of newly appointed and less experienced CSO and CSSO’s. SCSO’s work in teams (often multi-disciplinary) based in service centres covering specific geographical areas.

As a Senior Child Safety Officer, You Will Deliver accountable and collaborative integrated child protection services for complex and sensitive cases in a manner that respects the culture and context of each child, young person,



family and community in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, statutory responsibilities, and the child protection framework for practice.

Work collaboratively with colleagues, stakeholders, including children, young people and their families, Non-Government Organisations (NGO's), service providers, medical professionals, police and others to provide high quality strength based child protection practice in complex and sensitive cases.

Participate and contribute productively as a team member to form culturally appropriate, skilled working relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, including children, young people and families, NGO's, and other service providers.
Foster a culture and philosophy of quality frontline service delivery based on collaboration, cooperation, commitment to excellence and professional ethics.

Maintain high quality case records in accordance with...

📌 Senior Child Safety Officer (Toowoomba)
🏢 Queensland Government
📍 Toowoomba