Practice Lead - Child and Family Care
Core
Provide strategic practice leadership across residential and outreach programs for vulnerable children and families, ensuring trauma-informed, evidence-based care.
Role type
Senior practice lead (child and family care)
Builds
Residential and outreach services for children, young people, and families
Domain
Social services / Child protection / Residential care
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Child protection legislation knowledge, trauma-informed practice, complex case management, workforce supervision and coaching, quality assurance, stakeholder engagement, data analysis, critical thinking
Preferred skills
Experience in residential care or youth services, innovation in practice improvement
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Provide practice leadership across residential and outreach services; Support complex case management and practice decision-making; Maintain oversight of service delivery and quality; Lead quality assurance, practice review, and incident management; Monitor service performance and analyze data; Provide supervision, coaching, and mentoring to frontline teams; Build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership scope