Senior Child Safety Support Officer

Your contribution:
In this role you will work within a multidisciplinary team and provide high quality, culturally appropriate, child protection services to children, families and carers serviced by the Child Safety Service Centre. You will also support colleagues and management in the delivery of statutory child protection services within a strengthsbased, safety oriented framework for practice.
The Senior Child Safety Support Officer key responsibilities are:

• Effectively and positively engage with children, families, carers and service providers (including both government and non-government agencies) as required to support children and parents to meet their identified case plan goals.- Provide individualised, high quality, and culturally appropriate supports to children and families subject to tertiary child protection intervention including, but not limited to; facilitation of positive family connection, referrals and advocacy for services, parent coaching and support of transition from care plans.- Work collaboratively with key stakeholders, children and parents to support the establishment and strengthening of effective safety and support networks, including connection to extended family and community.- Provide high quality, comprehensive casework support and advice to assist in informing decisions about the safety and protective needs of children where complex child protection concerns are present.- Participate effectively as a team member in a multidisciplinary team to deliver wellplanned family support services to vulnerable children and families.- Actively contribute to a culture of continuous learning, training and professional development, to ensure practice knowledge and skills are contemporary and evidence based.- Prepare and maintain quality case records in accordance with departmental case management requirements.

Leadership competencies for the role:

• Leads StrategicallyYou think critically and act on the broader purpose of the system- Makes Insightful DecisionsYou make considered, ethical and courageous decisions based on insight into the broader context- Drives accountability and outcomesYou demonstrate accountability for the execution and quality of results through professionalism, persistence and transparency- Builds Enduring RelationshipsYou build and sustain relationships to enable the collaborative delivery of customerfocused outcomes- Pursues continuous growthYou pursue opportunities for growth through agile learning, and development of selfawareness- Demonstrates sound governanceYou maintain a high standard of practice through governance and risk management

Role Specific/Technical Skills:
You are able to recognise and articulate the interests of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and have the capacity to consult and negotiate according to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander protocols. You know about and understand the issues that impact on both cultures in contemporary society.
Applications to remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

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