Practitoner – Family Resources Job at ProCare

We’re Looking to hire, Practitoner – Family Resources Job at ProCare Australia SEP 2022

1. Practitoner – Family Resources Job
2. Queensland, Australia
3. Full-Time

About Company

As the first boutique recruitment and labour hire agency dedicated to provide employment support to the community services industry, ProCare Australia was founded in South-East Queensland in 2003. Our goal is to provide solutions for permanent, temporary, locum, and casual staffing to the community services sector (including emergency requests, such as urgent shift backfill for staff absences).

Practitoner – Family Resources Job at ProCare

We connect people by matching qualified applicants with career opportunities and fostering relationships. ProCare Australia offers labour hire services in Queensland as well as recruitment solutions, with a primary focus on the local communities of South-East Queensland.

Through the use of the best personnel for permanent, temporary, and casual employment, our team has the breadth of expertise and the capacity for empathy to fully comprehend what is needed to improve your workforce. This is supported by our dedication to creating better workplaces and our 19 years of experience in labour hire and community services recruitment. For our clients, we locate and entice the best candidates to boost productivity at work. We guarantee long-term, sustainable results by assuring a true proper match.

Job Responsibilities

• Support and equip young families to pursue their goals, building strong relationships with young parents as a foundation for change, and adapting approaches to the work including strengths- based case management, motivational interviewing, family coaching and group work depending
• on the family’s capacity and circumstances at the time.
• Work collaboratively within an integrated team to deliver a tailored response to support each family’s aspirations. 
• Provide a culturally safe environment and engagement for first nations and culturally and linguistically diverse young families.
• Build a young parent’s capacity to problem solve and implement solutions to challenges that arise for young families, providing advocacy when needed.
• Provide a safe space for young parents to explore and develop safe and healthy relationships skills that will support relationships in all aspects of their lives. Working with a family holistically,to support meaning change intergenerationally.
• Support young parents to develop their identity as individuals and as parents, building their capacity and skills to support their children’s development.
• Support young families to build their own positive support network, engage in the community around them and develop positive help seeking behaviours.
• Deliver quality, accessible, and flexible services to participating families in accordance with the client’s strategic direction and values.
• Follow the directions of line management to ensure industry and quality standards are met
• Work with the Program Manager and stakeholders including the team’s critical friend to maintain model integrity and to facilitate evaluation of the team

Job Requirement

• Relevant tertiary qualifications and experience are essential 
• Knowledge and experience specific to the role
• Demonstrated knowledge, skills, and experience in working with young parents (under 25) and/or young people.
• Demonstrated knowledge of both adolescent and childhood development and how to address family and household concerns.
• Demonstrated knowledge of – and a passionate interest in addressing – the underlying individual, family and societal issues impacting young parents’ caring for their children.
• Demonstrated experience in relation to supporting families experiencing family violence and child protection issues.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing an appropriate framework for assessment and intervention with families and children.
• Demonstrated experience in person centered, trauma informed service delivery.
• Experience in undertaking holistic person-centred strengths-based assessments and interventions in close cooperation with other professionals.
• Good written communication skills to write correspondence and prepare short reports.
• Demonstrated organisational skills to plan and prioritise work efficiently and effectively and manage competing demands and priorities.
• Refer to the level 4 competencies in the SCHADS Award

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