Youth & Family Caseworker - Reconnect: Penrith

Support young people and their families and engage families in evidence-based parenting programs.....

(Covering Nepean, Hawkesbury & Blue Mountains LGA)

Permanent Full-Time

SCHADS Level 5 + Car + Super + Salary Packaging

The Reconnect Program is a community based early intervention program to support young people between 12-18 (12-21 for newly arrived young people) who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Through early intervention the Reconnect Program aims to stabilise and improve young people’s housing situation and engagement with education, training, and employment. This is achieved through trauma informed wholistic casework, family mediation, group work and practical life skills coaching.

What you’ll do

We are looking for an outstanding Youth & Family Caseworker who is conscientious, reliable, and motivated about making a difference. Key aspects of the Youth & Family Caseworker role include:

• Support young people and their families

• Engaging Families in evidence-based parenting programs

• Building locally tailored partnerships and networks

Your team

All staff at Child, Youth & Family work hard to develop and maintain harmonious working relationships in an autonomous-supportive work environment where they are all trained to be the best in their field. Wesley Mission provides regular supervision, support, and training for all staff.

Essential Criteria

• University qualifications in social work, counselling, psychology or related fields with a commitment to continued training and learning opportunities to improve your practice
• Experience working within a community services and / or child and family social work environment
• Strengths based case management experience with the ability to engage young people and families at the point of initial contact and build collaborative working relationships
• Experience developing case summaries & child protection reports
• Ability to work one-on-one, or in groups, with clients in a variety of settings
• Ability to liaise, develop and maintain professional relationships with government & NGO agencies
• Cultural competence and experience working alongside Culturally and Linguistically Diverse people and First Nations families;
• Current NSW or National driver’s license and Working With Children’s Check
• Wesley Mission is a Christian organisation requiring all staff to affirm its values and Code of Conduct.

Desirable criteria

• Working knowledge of the local child and family support sector.
• Clear understanding of the complex needs and challenges young people who are at risk of homelessness, social isolation and school disengagement face.
• Experience facilitating groups and programs.

Your benefits

• 9 weeks ‘top up pay’ in conjunction with Govt paid parental leave; paid study leave.
• Employee Assistance Program (free counselling service)
• Annual Rewards & Recognition program
• $250 Finder’s fee for referrals
• Salary packaging
• Professional training and development
• Flexible working arrangements after three months probation

Recruitment process

1. telephone interview
2. online aptitude testing and a behavioural questionnaire
3. face-to-face interview
4. reference & probity checks.

If you have any queries, please contact

FamilyPresWSNBMRecruitment@wesleymission.org.au

Apply now

Please download and view a copy of the Application Pack and Position Description.

Please submit a copy of your CV/resume and a cover letter, no longer then two-pages, addressing all the selection criteria and why you would be a good fit for the role. Please include the completed Wesley Mission Application for Employment.

Only applications addressing all the selection criteria will be considered.

Wesley Mission is a Christian organisation requiring all staff to affirm its values and Worker code of conduct. We are committed to providing an environment in which children can feel safe and valued.

The suitable applicant will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks for appointment to positions within Wesley Mission (including provision of a valid Working with Children Check clearance number).

Wesley Child, Youth and Family team is committed to ensuring our workforce reflects the communities we work within. Whilst not a requirement, we strongly encourage people from the following background/s to apply:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• People who Identify as LGBTQIA+
• People of colour (e.g. identifying as cultural, religious and/or ethnically diverse)