Are you passionate about helping children and families thrive?
Barnardos Australia is seeking experienced professionals to join their Out-of-Home-Care team in Canberra, ACT, with opportunities available across two roles:

- Kinship Case Manager
- Permanency Specialist

These are exciting opportunities to be part of a values-led organisation committed to achieving safe, stable and positive outcomes for children and young people.

About the Roles
Kinship Case Manager
As a Case Manager, you will:

- Deliver child-focused case management, including developing, implementing and reviewing care plans that support safety, wellbeing and permanency goals.
- Work closely with children, young people, foster and kinship carers and families to promote safe, stable and supportive placements.
- Conduct assessments and home visits, maintain high-quality case documentation and ensure practice meets relevant legislative and organisational requirements.
- Collaborate with CYF and other government and community services to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people.

Permanency Specialist
As a Permanency Specialist, you will:

- Facilitate permanency consultations and complete comprehensive permanency assessments for children and young people in Foster and Kinship Care.
- Prepare detailed assessment reports and provide evidence-based recommendations on long-term permanency pathways, including EPR, Adoption and long-term care arrangements.
- Work collaboratively with Case Managers, carers, children, families and CYF to progress safe and sustainable permanency outcomes.
- Provide Post Order Support to children, young people and families to promote placement stability, strengthen relationships and support long-term wellbeing.

Across both roles, you’ll join a collaborative and supportive team delivering high-quality, trauma-informed services that uphold child safety, cultural safety and family-led practice.

Skills and Experience:

We’re looking for candidates who bring:

- A relevant Community, Welfare or Social Services degree, or equivalent level of experience, is desirable.




- Experience working with children, young people and families within child protection, out-of-home care or a related service environment.
- Strong understanding of child development, trauma-informed practice, permanency and relevant child protection legislation and frameworks.
- Robust assessment, case management, relationship-building and written communication skills. For the Permanency Specialist opportunity, previous experience completing complex assessments and comprehensive reports will be particularly valuable.
- Demonstrated ability to work respectfully and effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, families, and communities, including a strong understanding of cultural safety, self-determination, and the historical and contemporary factors that impact Aboriginal peoples.

What’s on Offer:

- Base salary: Competitive Salary + 12% superannuation
- Salary packaging: Up to $15,860 tax-free (general living expenses)
- Meal & entertainment packaging: Additional $2,650 tax-free per FBT year
- Leave loading and additional wellbeing leave

Other benefits include:

- 35-hour work week
- Flexible working arrangements
- Paid cultural leave and a day off during NAIDOC Week
- Extra annual leave over the Christmas–Recent Year period
- Ongoing development: mentoring, acting up, secondments
- Volunteer leave and opportunities to engage in community events
- Access to Barnardos’ Indigenous Cultural Support Unit, Gurung Wellama

About Barnardos
Barnardos Australia is a leading children’s charity with a proud history of protecting children and strengthening families. Our work spans communities across NSW and the ACT, focusing on safe, stable,



and connected futures for vulnerable children and young people.

STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT
Barnardos Australia recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first Australians, with unique culture, languages and spiritual relationships to the land and seas. We are strongly committed to improving the lives of children and young people and to uphold the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to be safe and cared for within their own communities and remain connected to their families and culture.
For Barnardos Australia, reconciliation means working in a meaningful and respectful way with Aboriginal families and communities. It is a commitment of Barnardos Australia to work in collaboration and partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, organisations and communities, always guided in this process by principles of self-determination.

Pre-employment Requirements You will need (or be willing to obtain):

- National Police Check
- Working with Vulnerable People Check
- ACT Child Protection Check
- Driver History Check
- NSW WWC Check

How to Apply
To get started, simply submit your current resume.
If your application progresses, you’ll be invited to complete a second stage of the process, which includes access to the full Position Description and selection criteria. You’ll be asked to respond to the criteria at that time.

Please indicate in your application whether you are interested in the Case Manager role, Permanency Specialist role, or would like to be considered for both opportunities.

For a confidential discussion OR to find out more about the roles please call Gemma Haworth on 04•• ••• 600.

There is no set closing date for these roles. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the positions will be filled once suitable candidates are identified. Early applications are encouraged.

Make your next role one that truly makes a difference.
Join Barnardos, a children’s charity that puts purpose into practice.

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