Child and Family Case Worker in Kingaroy

Employment Term: Maximum term to 29 March 2027, Full-Time (38 hours per week)

Remuneration: $53.43 per hour + Super + $15,900 NFP Salary Packaging (save tax and increase your take-home pay)

Make a meaningful difference with UnitingCare Queensland. At UnitingCare we are leaders in crisis response, the protection of vulnerable people and children, financial resilience, and family wellbeing. Our FaDS (Family and Disability Services) team work passionately across Queensland to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.

Your part in our UnitingCare team:

The Intensive Family Support Service assists complex, vulnerable families who are at risk of entering the Child Protection system. We are a voluntary service that visits families in their homes approximately once a week for up to 12 months, enabling us to work together to keep children safe and achieve family goals.

The Child and Family Case Worker will lead case management with families in a fast-paced, high-volume work environment to identify and prioritise their concerns. This role involves:

• Providing a mix of therapeutic and in-home practical care to support complex, vulnerable and often hard-to-reach families.
• Actively engaging, assessing, and developing collaborative case plans to ensure we are prioritising the families' presenting concerns, in turn preparing them to be referred to specialist support services.

What makes a difference for us?

• Preferably, you will have a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Human Services, or Psychology.
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in case management and child protection - working directly with families, children, and young people with complex needs.
• A current knowledge and understanding of Domestic Family Violence and the impact on children.
• An understanding of First Nations peoples, cultures and society, and the issues which impact them.
• A commitment to culturally safe practice.
• A sound knowledge and understanding in Attachment Theory, Trauma-informed practice, and Child Development.
• Current Queensland working with children check (Blue Card).
• Current open Queensland driver’s licence.
• Eligibility to work in Australia.

What makes a difference for you?

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
• NFP Salary Packaging: Save tax and increase your take-home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum.
• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs.
• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months’ service, in addition to the government scheme.
• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events.
• Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference.
• A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others.

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:

• Provide welcoming, safe & nurturing services for children.
• Implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services.
• Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur.
• Abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme.

Our approach is simple–everybody is welcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.

We are committed to creating services and workplaces that are welcoming and safe for every person. We work together to protect children, young people, adults and the elderly from harm within our services and the communities we support. We speak up for their safety to ensure their voices are heard. Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.