About the role The Aboriginal Kinship Care Practitioner advocates for and supports both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal kinship carers who care for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander children and young people who have been placed in their care by the Department for Child Protection.
The Aboriginal Kinship
Care program will ensure that carers are well supported to provide care that allows for children and young people to feel protected and supported so that they grow up well cared for, connected to Aboriginal culture, kin, identity and community and empowered to reach their full potential.
Key responsibilities
- Advocate and support kinship carers
- Maintain child and young person focused approach
- Effectively maintain stakeholder relationships
- Communicate with staff at all levels
- Travel throughout the region and/or interstate as required
About you
- Minimum Cert IV or extensive relevant experience with willingness to obtain a Cert IV qualification relevant to the role
- Current driver's license and ability to drive pool vehicles
- Experience in the out of home care sector
- Experience in working closely with Aboriginal families and communities
- Experience using the Winangay assessment tools is desirable, but not essential
- Previous Case management experience desirable
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and report writing skills (written and oral)
- Excellent organization and time management with the ability to prioritize effectively
- Ability to produce professional documents suited to the target audience
- Commitment to applying child safe and child focused practice to all tasks
- Current and satisfactory National Criminal History Check
- Current and satisfactory NDIS Worker Check
- DHS working with Children's Check
- Current and unrestricted Australian Driver's License
About us The Aboriginal Kinship Care program is a consortium between InComPro Aboriginal Association and Uniting Care Wesley Bowden. This filling of this vacancy is intended to constitute an affirmative measure under section 8(1) of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. This vacancy is only available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait islander people.
Benefits
- Access to salary packaging
- Professional development
- SCHADS - Level 4
📌 Aboriginal Kinship Care Practitioner (Bowden)
🏢 Incompro Aboriginal Association
📍 Bowden
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