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About Centrecare
Centrecare is a not-for-profit organisation with just over 300 employees and is committed to delivering quality professional counselling, support, accommodation, mediation and training services in over 11 locations across the Perth metropolitan, Goldfields and South West regions.
About Families First Service
Families First provides culturally appropriate, child-centred early intervention services to support children and young people who are showing early signs of, or are at risk of developing mental illness.
The Role
Based in Kalgoorlie and Leonora locations.
The primary duty of this role is to engage with children and families in an outreach capacity within the community.
- Provide integrated case work, education, and community services to support families, children and young people.
- Arrange referrals to agencies and services for clients to access appropriate specialist services and support groups.
- Assist families to enhance their skills and capacity to care for their children through providing information on parenting and health programs.
- Assist families to identify and strengthen kinship networks, cultural connections, and family relationships
- Provide individual and group support facilitation that is culturally sensitive to the needs and learning styles of families and children.
- Work within the Goldfields region on outreach, doing home-visits, working in schools, Aboriginal community centres, and any other venue where the service can be more accessible to vulnerable families and children in their communities.
Selection Criteria
- Qualifications in Community Services, Social Work, Psychology, Social Sciences, Counselling and/or related disciplines.
- At least 1–3 years post graduate experience.
- Demonstrated experience conducting extensive screening, assessment and case planning for children, young people and families, especially Aboriginal families.
- Demonstrated experience providing strength-based, culturally secure services to children, young people and families.
- Experience living and working in a remote / regional community.
- Ability to stay a maximum of 4 nights in the outreach community.
Benefits
- Regional zone allowance
- Relocation assistance of $1,000 for relocation over 1,000kms
- Comprehensive training and development
- Four weeks annual leave inclusive of a 17.5% leave loading
- 5 days of additional paid leave
- Twelve weeks paid Maternity Leave
- Access to corporate health cover provided for by Bupa and Medibank
- Study Leave of five hours per week after two years of service
- Insurance cover to and from work
- Clinical and Management Supervision
- Employee Assistance Program
How to apply
Click apply and you will be directed to our online job board to view further details on the vacancy description and complete your application.
Shortlisting will commence upon receipt of applications, Centrecare reserves the right to close the position early if needed.
At Centrecare:
- Children feel Valued, Heard, and Safe: Centrecare is fully committed to the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations, child safe cultures and practices. harm. Centrecare also believes that all children are valuable and worthy of respect. It strongly supports the rights of the child and is committed to ensuring the safety, wellbeing and protection of all children who are in contact with or receive its services.
- We are Inclusive: We actively promote a working environment that values diversity and inclusion. We strongly encourage applications from First Nations people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQ+ and people with a disability. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application.
- We support the Uluru Statement from the Heart: We are committed to walking alongside First Nations people to support a more inclusive Australia and Closing the Gap.
