Child and Family Case Worker | Intensive Family Support Service | Kingaroy

Employment Term: Maximum term to 29 March 2027, Full-Time (38 hours per week)

Remuneration: $53.43 per hour + Super + $15,900 NFP Salary Packaging (save tax and increase your take-home pay)

Make a meaningful difference with UnitingCare Queensland

At UnitingCare we are leaders in crisis response, the protection of vulnerable people and children, financial resilience, and family wellbeing. Our FaDS (Family and Disability Services) team work passionately across Queensland to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.

As a Child and Family Case Worker you’ll be encouraged to grow, develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about. Let’s make a meaningful difference, together

Your part in our UnitingCare team

The Intensive Family Support Serviceassists complex, vulnerable families who are at risk of entering the Child Protection system. We are a voluntary service that visits families in their homes approximately once a week for up to 12 months, enabling us to work together to keep children safe and achieve family goals.

The Child and Family Case Worker will lead case management with families in a fast-paced, high-volume work environment to identify and prioritise their concerns.

This role involves:

- Providing a mix of therapeutic and in-home practical care to support complex, vulnerable and often hard-to-reach families.
- Actively engaging, assessing, and developing collaborative case plans to ensure we are prioritising the families' presenting concerns, in turn preparing them to be referred to specialist support services.





What makes a difference for us?

- Preferably, you will have a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Human Services, or Psychology.
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in case management and child protection - working directly with families, children, and young people with complex needs.
- A current knowledge and understanding of Domestic Family Violence and the impact on children.
- An understanding of First Nations peoples, cultures and society, and the issues which impact them.
- Acommitment to culturally safe practice.
- A sound knowledge and understanding in Attachment Theory, Trauma-informed practice, and Child Development.
- Current Queensland working with children check (Blue Card).
- Current open Queensland driver’s licence.
- Eligibility to work in Australia.

What makes a difference for you?

- Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
- NFP Salary Packaging: Save tax and increase your take-home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum. To learn more about this benefit, watch the video via the following link: SalaryPackagingExplained
- A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers,



including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs.
- 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months’ service, in addition to the government scheme.
- Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events.
- Career development opportunitiesto challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference.
- A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others.

We’d love you to be part of our UnitingCare family

Joining our FaDS, team, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years.

Child safe, Child friendly

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:

- Provide welcoming, safe & nurturing services for children
- Implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
- Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur
- Abide by the Child Secure Standards and adhere to the

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