• Part-time opportunity available, with a maximum duration until 30/06/26
• 4 weekdays per week with flexible working arrangements + 2-3 weekend shifts per calendar month, flexibly rostered
• Hourly rate: $43.08 - $48.35 depending on experience + Super + Salary packaging + penalty rates for weekend work
• Based in Sydney CBD

Sydney Children’s Contact Service (CCS) is a federally-funded provider of centre-based supervised visits and changeovers for young children, facilitating contact with their separated parents and family violence. The service uses a child-focused, therapeutic, trauma informed, safety focused, integrated case management model of supervised contact, working with separated families who present with complex needs and high risk.

We’re looking for a Case Worker who is passionate about supporting families impacted by family separation. While experience in this area is preferred, our supportive and experienced team is eager to help develop a candidate who shows a strong ethical approach, aligns with our values, and has a genuine passion for making a positive impact.

What you’ll be doing

In this role, some of your key responsibilities include:

• Delivering child-focused, site-based, supervised contact services between children and adult family members, including handling enquiries, conducting thorough intake safety and risk assessments regarding family violence and child protection, orientating new families, supervising contact visits, providing therapeutic case management, setting goals with clients, advocating for clients, and making referrals and liaising with other services
• Working collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team, including family dispute resolution practitioners and family law and post-separation counsellors, while closely coordinating with other team members and managers to foster and maintain a supportive and constructive work environment
• Maintaining a focus on the safety and wellbeing of clients and their families, underpinned by a solid understanding of child development, child protection, and individual and systemic issues, including Domestic and Family Violence
• Complying with all agency and program policies and procedures, including documentation and administrative tasks such as managing client files and correspondence, writing case notes, data collection, and responding to family court subpoenas.

If you would like to find out more about the role, click apply to view the Position Description on our career website.

What you will need

• Tertiary qualifications in social sciences e.g. social work, psychology 
• Demonstrated capacity and skills to work with adults and children impacted by relationship breakdown, family separation, family violence, mental health issues, and family law processes
• Demonstrated capacity and skills to provide supervises contact and therapeutic case management of separated families impacted by high conflict and multiple complex issues including family violence, mental health issues and alcohol and drug addiction
• Demonstrated capacity and skills to provide therapeutic interventions and case management within a trauma informed practice model, assessing and responding to the impact of issues including separation, domestic and family violence, mental health, alcohol and other drugs, grief and loss, and child protection
• Working with Children Check

What our Benefits include

• Professional Growth: Tailored professional development opportunities to support your career ambitions
  
• Work-Life Balance: Embrace flexibility and align your work and your life to enable you to thrive in a Family Inclusive accredited organisation, 
  
• Tax Savings: Maximise your income with generous salary packaging, reducing your tax and increasing your take-home pay
  
• Generous Leave: Above-award annual and personal/carers leave, extended parental leave, and additional leave for celebration and graduation day
  
• Inclusive: Join a friendly and supportive organisation that values your contributions and voice
  Wellbeing: Free access to a premium mindfulness app, EAP counselling, yearly flu vaccinations, and a variety of wellbeing activities to make your workday more enjoyable

Choose a workplace that cares about your growth, happiness, and overall well-being. Join us today!

To be considered for this role, you will need to attach your resume and a cover letter addressing how your skills, knowledge and experience meet the requirements of the role (Address the Selection Criteria).

Please submit your application as soon as possible as shortlisting and interviewing for this position will commence immediately.

Need More Information? Please contact Deborah – Practice Manager at [email protected], using the subject line: Case Worker - Children's Contact Services enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.

Who are we and what we do

People are at the core of everything we do: from supporting and enhancing the wellbeing of our clients to the nurturing and development of our staff and their career aspirations.

CatholicCare Sydney is a leading not-for-profit agency supporting people from all walks of life. We’re an organisation that promotes diversity and inclusion and commits to the growth and wellbeing of our staff, empowering them to make a positive change to the community. CatholicCare is the official social services agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney and a certified Family Friendly Organisation.

We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, nationalities, abilities, and cultures, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, member of the LGBTQI+ community, and people living with disabilities.

At CatholicCare, we believe vaccination to be the best way to keep our people and our communities safe from Covid-19. We require all employees, volunteers and students to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as a condition of engagement.

CatholicCare requires the preferred applicant to undertake a National Criminal History Record Check prior to employment, and for some roles, a Working with Children Check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check may be required.