Your Role as Family & Community Support Practitioner

As a Family & Community Support Practitioner with Hummingbird House, you’ll make a meaningful difference in the lives of children and families facing serious illness, end-of-life care and bereavement. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will provide compassionate psychosocial and emotional support, deliver family-centred interventions, and help families build resilience and wellbeing through challenging times.

Key responsibilities include

- Conduct psychosocial assessments and develop tailored support plans for children and families.

- Provide emotional, psychosocial, grief and bereavement support through individual, family and group interventions.

- Support families during periods of crisis, acute distress and significant clinical events.

- Facilitate grief and bereavement programs, therapeutic groups and memory-making activities.

- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver coordinated, family-centred care.

- Build strong relationships with healthcare providers, schools and community organisations to support positive outcomes.

- Provide information, referrals and practical support to children, young people and their families.

- Maintain accurate records and deliver services in line with professional standards, legislation and organisational policies.

This is a part-time position consisting of 30 hours per week.

What We Offer

- Salary Packaging: As a not‑for‑profit employer, we offer generous salary packaging advantages that help maximise your take‑home pay. You can package up to $15,900 each year on everyday living expenses and up to $2,650 on meals and entertainment.

- Wellbeing Support: Access to discounts on private health insurance and gym memberships, and free,



confidential counselling through our employee assistance program.

- Team Culture: Be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team across a diverse clinical setting that values your skills and wellbeing.

What We’re Looking For

- Completed tertiary qualification in Social Work and eligibility for AASW Membership.

- Experience supporting children, young people and families through serious illness, palliative care, end-of-life care, grief and bereavement using evidence-based psychosocial interventions.

- Strong knowledge of paediatric palliative care, childhood grief, child development and family-centred, trauma-informed practice, with the ability to undertake psychosocial assessments and care planning.

- Ability to work collaboratively and within professional and ethical boundaries as part of a multidisciplinary team, including providing consultation, support, guidance and education to colleagues and stakeholders.

A Valuable Addition, Yet Not a Must-Have!

- Experience in planning, implementing and evaluating programs for children and young people of varying ages.

- Knowledge of child development and articulates the value of play and psychosocial support for children affected by a life limiting condition; their siblings and other children or young people connected to the guest at Hummingbird House.

- Postgraduate study, certification or specialist professional development in grief and bereavement, child and family mental health, paediatric palliative care counselling, social work or related disciplines.

Essential Requirements

- Proof of COVID-19 vaccination status (or as required by legislation and WMQ policy)

- Relevant probity checks required by legislation and WMQ Limited policy.

- Current Driver’s Licence and willingness to travel for work

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📌 Family & Community Support Practitioner (Australia)
🏢 Wesley Mission Queensland
📍 Australia