• Full time opportunity, based in Bankstown
• Hybrid / flexible working arrangements
• Hourly rate: $53.84 - $56.22 + Super + Salary packaging

About the Role

The Senior Practitioner FDR will work with the FDR Practice Manager to provide day-to-day operational and clinical support, expertise and guidance to a team of FDR Practitioners, working collaboratively to ensure integrated practice and enhance outcomes for separating families.

Some of your responsibilities will be:

• Providing support, feedback and guidance to FDRPs to facilitate the delivery of effective client focused services, consistent with best practice standards and relevant statutory and funding requirements
• Actively contributing to the management of complex and high needs clients within agreed service areas and in line with expertise and qualifications using a collaborative approach
• Providing timely, high-level and specialist advice to the Practice Manager on service delivery issues, team performance, service quality, and related matters
• Maintaining a case load to provide FDR of parenting and property matters
• Attending and participating in individual and group clinical supervision
• Maybe required to facilitate individual clinical supervision
• Ensuring that data collection meets internal and funding body requirements
• Maintaining up to date knowledge of professional practice techniques and translating that knowledge to maximise client outcomes.
• Carrying out duties in accordance with all relevant legal Acts, Legislation, Regulations and Standards in Family Law, Child Protection and Domestic and Family Violence

About You

To be a successful candidate you will have:

• Must have completed Post Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution, or accredited AGD.
• Demonstrated ability to build and leverage relationships across multi-functional or multi-disciplinary teams to achieve agreed objectives
• Demonstrated capacity to deliver a person-centred, strengths-based service
• Demonstrated ability to successfully support a high-performing team and maintain a positive workplace culture
• Demonstrated understanding of family law, child protection, domestic and family violence and other relevant legislation as required
• Strong organisational skills, including the capacity for critical thinking and a systemic approach to prioritisation
• Demonstrated competency in the use of technology to deliver client services and utilise client management systems
• Demonstrated experience and skills in working with Cultural and Linguistically Diverse Communities and with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
• Demonstrated high-level verbal and written communication skills.

Our Benefits

• 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 Vaneeta Lal– Practice Manager at [email protected], using the subject line: Senior Practitioner - Family Dispute Resolution enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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 and the social services agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, 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.

We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, identities, 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.