New team - New focus!

We are excited to be a provider of an innovative new service Functional Family Therapy – Child Welfare. In partnership with DCJ, this service aims to shape how our sector works with families in the future.

The Functional Family Therapy – Child Wellbeing framework provides clinical therapeutic treatments within a child protection context, to address underlying causes of drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness and domestic violence that results in harm to children, young people and families. The aim is to achieve sustained behavioural change in families, reducing referral to out of home care and keeping families together. Program model adherence is crucial to the success of this program.

DCJ has selected this approach based on its international success with increasing children’s safety and keeping more families together. It’s proven to make a real difference to families within the statutory child protection system.

Your role

Firstly you will be fully trained in the Functional Family Therapy framework and will have access to ongoing training and support.

You will support clients to embed changes particularly behavioural changes and plan for potential challenges that families may face in the future. Critical to the success of the program will be documenting your activity to ensure we can measure the impact of the frameworks within the Australian market and shape future practice standards across the sector.

Terms: Permanent full time position based at Hurstville

Some of the benefits we offer

• Shape the future of family intervention
• We support you to work flexibly; from home, other hubs or flexible hours
• We set you up for success with a buddy, structured orientation & mobile tools
• Self care is important; Monthly accrued day off & purchase additional leave
• Salary packaging, meals and entertainment card and discount program available
• Novated leases & pool cars available

What do you need to succeed?

You will have a tertiary qualification in Social Work, Welfare, Psychology, Counselling or related discipline and:

• Experience working with at risk children, young people and/or families in a child protection or counselling role
• Ability to actively engage, assess and work alongside at risk families using a strengths based approach
• A clear understanding of child protection issues and the capacity to identify when the level of risk requires statutory child protection intervention
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data collection
• Excellent relationship building skills and experience engaging with reluctant clients
• Desire and confidence to learn new practices and immediately implement techniques with clients

Interested? Apply online today!

For enquiries please email Dimitra Kouta [email protected], using the subject line: Functional Family Therapy Practitioner enquiry via EthicalJobs.

TBS is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the communities and people we support and advocate for. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people of all ages, identity and abilities. We pride ourselves on being a client and child safe organisation and as such all our staff and volunteers go through security screening relevant to the role. The Benevolent Society supports vaccination as the best way to keep our clients, communities, volunteers and employees safe from COVID-19. Vaccination for COVID-19 is a condition of employment and volunteering.

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