• Permanent full time position | Based at Doveton
• Make a real difference to the wellbeing of children living in Out of Home Care
• Increase your take home pay with access to salary packaging

About the program

The Enhanced Therapeutic Contact Service (ETCS) is a unique program that works closely with parents and children to ensure that time spent during contact visits is positive, meaningful, safe, and therapeutic.

Your new role

As a Key Worker you will support and supervise court ordered contact visits for children living in Out of Home Care, creating a stable, predictable, and safe environment to enhance the quality of contact visits. Making slime, playing cricket, or providing psychoeducation to parents on child development, you will employ a multitude of skills to actively and creatively support parents to meet their children’s needs.

ETCS advocates for children, provides role modelling, coaching, parenting education, and plans contact experiences to achieve agreed goals including reunification, unsupervised visits, or alternate means of supervision. 

Benefits of working at Uniting

Our work isn’t easy, but it matters. Work with people who care as much as you.

In addition to your salary equivalent to SCHADS Level 5 + super, you can access the following.

• An extra 17.5% on top of your fortnightly pay when you take paid annual leave
• Ability to increase your take-home pay by accessing up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits which can be used for living expenses such as rent, groceries, bills, clothing, and much more
• Access training and development opportunities to help you grow
• Up to 10 weeks paid parental leave
• 10% discount for eligible employees on the childcare subsidy gap fee when using a Uniting Early Learning Service

Your skills and experience

You will bring with you:

• A tertiary qualification in social work, psychology or a related discipline
• Previous experience working with vulnerable children and families in a community services setting
• Knowledge of child development, trauma, and attachment theories and how the relate to children in Out of Home Care
• Understanding of the Best Interests case practice model and Children, Youth & Families Act 2005, and some familiarity with Child Protection
• Current driver’s licence

View the position description here

How to apply

Click APPLY to submit your interest.

If this role sounds like a good fit for you, please apply soon. We'll review applications as they come in and may close the ad early.

For any questions, please reach out to Deb Osmand, Team Leader ETCS on (03) 9793 3707 for a chat.

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse range of services across Victoria and Tasmania.

Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org

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 relevant Working with Children Check in your State prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

Through the recruitment process, we will ask you for personal information. Disclosure is optional, however, it can help us support you better. We invite you to tell us if you identify as Aboriginal, a person with disability, from a diverse background or LGBTQIA+. You will be given an opportunity in the application form to request additional support. We welcome the opportunity to discuss how we can support you.

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