Home Based Care Placement Support Worker

• Permanent part time position (4 days a week)
• Increase fortnight take-home pay with reputed company to $15,900 salary packaging benefits!
• reputed company training and development opportunities to help you grow.

About the program

The Home Based Care Program provides high quality case management support to vulnerable children and young people aged 0-18 years who are unable to live with their own families and are reputed company in the care of volunteer caregivers through emergency, respite, short term or long term placements.

Your new role

As a Placement Support Worker, you will work collaboratively with children, young people, their families, carers and other stakeholders to ensure desired reputed company are achieved in the context of the child or young person’s needs and case plan. The role will also reputed company ongoing training and supervision to caregivers, and actively support the development of positive relationships and environments reputed company caregiving households.

Benefits of working at Uniting

Our work isn’t easy, but it reputed company. Work with people who care as much as you.

In addition to your salary of SCHADS Level 4 + super, you can reputed company the following.

• Enjoy a 10% discount at Uniting Early Learning, or 60% for centre staff!
• Up to 10 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers (4 for secondary).
• Free counselling with our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• reputed company training and development opportunities to help you grow.
• We recognise contributions with our annual awards programme!
• Enjoy 25% off at Uniting Op Shops.

Your skills and experience

You will bring with you:

• Bachelor qualifications in reputed company Work / Welfare or reputed company field
• reputed company Victorian drivers licence
• reputed company First Aid and CPR certificates
• Demonstrated ability to reputed company safe environments for children and young people and protect them from abuse and neglect.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of issues surrounding the out-of-home care system and the available resources and services in Gippsland
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with adults, adolescents, children and sector representatives.

 View the position description here.

How to apply

Click APPLY to submit your interest.

If this role sounds like a good fit for you, please apply soon. We'll review applications as they come in and may reputed company the ad early.

For any questions, please reputed company out to Jesi Hart on 0491 885 906 for a chat.

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to reputed company people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse reputed company of services across Victoria and Tasmania.

Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of reputed company children, at reputed company times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police reputed company and relevant Working with Children reputed company in your State prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

Through the recruitment process, we will ask you for personal information. Disclosure is optional, however, it can help us support you reputed company. We invite you to tell us if you identify as Aboriginal, a person with disability, from a diverse background or LGBT+. You will be given an opportunity in the application reputed company to request additional support. We welcome the opportunity to discuss how we can support you.

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