• Leading Community Services Organisation
• Salary packaging, and competitive sector remuneration
• Full-Time, Maternity leave cover position until 30 April 2022
• Sale location

About the opportunity

The Foster Care Training and Recruitment Officer, as part of the wider Home Based Care (HBC) Program, works to recruit, and retain foster carers as well as provide them with the required training and support to ensure they have the skills and support required to undertake their role as a foster carer. This position also has a responsibility for maintaining recruitment and marketing strategies.

You can view the full position description here

About you

To be successful in the position you will have:

• Degree level qualifications in social work, psychology or related field
• Certification as a Step by Step Assessor would be desirable but not essential
• At least two years’ experience in working in foster care, child care services, welfare or social care environments
• Training and Assessment skills including the presentation/facilitation of training/information sessions, and conducting pre accreditation with a child protection focus
• Exceptional organisational and time management skills and capacity to work independently and cooperatively within a team structure

How to Apply

If this sounds like you, apply today by submitting the following

• Cover Letter (1 page outlining your suitability according to the position description)
• Current Resume (no more than 3 pages)
• Address the Core selection criteria in the position description

Get in touch

Linde Coggan - Senior Manager, Care and Placement Services
T: 03 5144 7777

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. Visit us: unitingvictas.org.au

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and Working With Children Check (in Victoria) and/or Working With Vulnerable People Check (in Tasmania) prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

We work in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australia’s First Peoples and as the traditional owners and custodians of this land. We celebrate diversity and value the lived experience of people of every ethnicity, faith, age, disability, culture, language, gender identity, sex and sexual orientation. We welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse and non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people at our services. We pledge to provide inclusive and non-discriminatory services.