Child and Family Practitioner
Core
Provide intensive, home-based therapeutic intervention and case management to vulnerable children, young people, and families involved in the child protection system to support reunification or safe home placement.
Role type
Senior IC child and family practitioner (case worker)
Builds
Therapeutic interventions and case management plans for families in the child protection system
Domain
Social work / Child protection / Family services
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Case management, therapeutic intervention, working with children and families, child protection knowledge, driver's license
Preferred skills
Experience in child protection, registration with a nationally recognised professional body
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Deliver holistic and therapeutic responses to families in the child protection system; Provide intensive support for children and young people to safely reunify with families or remain safely at home; Conduct home-based interventions and case management
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC