Job Summary
- $43.07 per hour
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 20th Jun 2024
- Regional VIC > Bendigo, Goldfields & Macedon Ranges
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BDAC is an ACCO (Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation) registered as a member under the umbrella of VACCHO (Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation) and represented nationally through NACCHO (National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation).
BDAC was founded to represent and provide services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living on Djaara Country.
BDAC has a responsibility to ensure growth of services, development of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, better and improved health outcomes for our people, improved quality of life and be a lead agency in providing self-determination employment and career pathways for Aboriginal people.
Reporting to the Program Manager and supported by senior staff, Case Managers will lead investigations and make assessments if a child is in need of protection. If the child is found to need protection the Case Manager will work directly with children, families and community to ensure the child’s safety and wellbeing. Where this is unable to be achieved voluntarily, it may include initiating legal proceedings and all work associated with making protection applications.
Travel to meet with families and for training, some overnight and interstate travel may be required.
Supported by the Team Leader and senior program staff, the Case Manager will:
A recognised Social Work degree or a similar welfare or behavioural related degree which includes: (a) a primary focus on child development, human behaviour, family dynamics and/or impacts of trauma; and preferably (b) a practical component such as counselling or case work practice
or
A recognised Diploma of Community Services Work, or similar qualification which is studied over a minimum of two academic years of full-time study (or part time equivalent) and includes: (a) a primary focus on child development, human behaviour, family dynamics and/or impacts of trauma (b) supervised fieldwork placements (ideally completed within the child and family welfare sector) and at least one unit of study in case management, case work practice or counselling.
*If you don’t meet these requirements but strongly believe and are able to demonstrate you have the knowledge and capacity to fulfill this role, please contact us.
If this role sounds like the role for you then click on the link below and apply by attaching your CV and a cover letter detailing how you suit the role.
Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (Police check, reference check and Working with Children's Check) will be completed prior to the candidate’s employment being confirmed.
For more information about this position please see the Position Description which can be accessed via our website bdac.com.au or contact our human resources team on (03) 5442 4947 or send an email through to [email protected], using the subject line: Aboriginal Children in Aboriginal Care Case Manager - Bendigo enquiry via EthicalJobs.
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