2022 Fostering Support Worker (Identified)- Cairns (Start ASAP)

• Regular travel to the Cape York Region
• $32+/hr + super + up to $15,900 salary packaging
• PDO every fortnight + 5 weeks annual leave + leave loading
• Upskilling and career progression available
• Cert III or experience and willingness to study required

About the role

Reporting to the Team Leader, you will be working with children and young people in family-based placements across Cairns and the communities across the Cape York Region.

No two days will be the same in this diverse role however your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Providing ongoing mentoring and support of placements with carers, including the transition of children and young people entering or exiting from placements;
• Providing ongoing monitoring of placements with foster carers including the transition of children and young people entering or exiting from placements;
• Developing and implementing the recruitment including conducting initial interviews, pre-service training and assessing the carer's ongoing suitability.
• You won't be alone! You will be a part of a dedicated team that supports each other to give children and young people a positive journey through care.

About you

You are passionate about welfare and achieving the absolute best outcomes for children and young people in family-based placements.

To be suitable for this position, your qualifications and skills for the role will consist of:

• Certificate III in Protective Care, Youth or Community Services or equivalent and/or related experience with a willingness to participate in further training;
• Applied knowledge and understanding of child protection and out-of-home care frameworks;
• Knowledge and understanding of the historical and contemporary issues affecting Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander peoples;
• A current driver's license;
• Possess or have the ability to acquire a National Police Check, Current Blue Card (Working with Children) and Licensed Care Services (LCS);
• Proof of COVID vaccinations.

This is an identified position within Churches of Christ in Queensland. To perform this role it is essential that the person who holds the position be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person. It is therefore a genuine occupational requirement under section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 that applicants are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Importantly, you will be someone who closely aligns with our organisational values of Unconditional Love, Continual Innovation, Mutual Trust, Wise Stewardship and Safety.
For further information, please contact Nigel Sullivan on 07 4771 8870.

Applications will be reviewed as submitted