About the Role

Mercy Community Services SEQ Family and Child Connect (FaCC) program has an opportunity for a motivated and passionate Social Worker to join the Family Response Facilitation team. This is a Permanent, Full-time position.

You will engage with families and a wide variety of service providers to facilitate vital connections to supports for those families supported by the Townsville Family and Child Connect program.

$85,126 - $91,588 annually (SCHADS L4) plus superannuation plus generous salary packaging available.

What you’ll be doing

• Assess information provided in a referral, engage with families with multiple and high-level needs and provide resources
• Engage with families with multiple and high-level needs and provide resources, information and advice regarding appropriate community support options
• Complete referrals out to appropriate services
• Provide services to the Townsville region for the Family and Child Connect team
• Engage with families and a wide variety of service providers to facilitate vital connections to supports for those families in our communities

About you

As the successful applicant, you will possess:

• Degree in Social Work.
• Previous experience working effectively as a Social Worker across a range of service providers, both government and non-government, to negotiate high quality service provision to families who have complex issues.
• Queensland Provisional Green or above Driver Licence.
• A positive notice in the Working with Children Check (Blue Card) and the ability to obtain any other legislatively required personal history screening as required.
• Evidence of current vaccination against whooping cough or willingness to obtain.

Why Mercy Community

Mercy Community is a Catholic not-for-profit that provides a wide range of services supporting families and young people, people living with a disability and the elderly. All our work is driven by our core values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity & Empowerment.

Being part of the Mercy Community team, means you have access to some fantastic benefits, such as:

• Increase your take home pay through the use of generous salary packaging - up to $18,550 per annum of your salary is available as a tax-free component
• Pay for your Queensland Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Card when you need – saving you up to $144 if you need both cards!
• Provide you and your immediate family free, professional and confidential counselling services including specialised First Nations counsellors
• Free annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements
• Employee referral bonus incentive
• Cash out or purchase annual leave and to take advantage of extra leave entitlements

We also ensure all our employees have access to a wide variety of excellent learning and development tools to continue your professional and personal development. This includes making sure you have access to a range of other career pathways and opportunities across Mercy.

For any queries, please contact [email protected] using the subject line: Social Worker - Family & Child Connect - Townsville enquiry via EthicalJobs. We do not accept applications via email so please ensure you apply online.

Mercy Community Services is a Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to respond to every applicant.