Join our Family Services Team.

• Join a values-led team focused on child wellbeing and family resilience
• Use your family services expertise to support vulnerable children
• Max term part-time until 10 August 2027 based in Cranbourne

Your new role

As a Lead Practitioner Family Services, you'll work alongside families experiencing complex challenges to strengthen parenting capacity, improve family functioning and support positive outcomes for children and young people. You'll build trusted relationships and deliver evidence-informed interventions that promote safety, stability and wellbeing.

Based on High Street Cranbourne, this is a part-time fixed-term role working 3 days per week, with Friday being a preferred working day.

A key focus of this role is ensuring the child's voice remains central to all assessment, planning and intervention activities while supporting families to create sustainable change. You will work independently, manage a diverse caseload and respond effectively to changing family needs.

Your impact will include:

• Delivering intensive family case management and outreach support.
• Capturing and amplifying the child's voice in planning and decision-making.
• Promoting child safety, stability and positive developmental outcomes.
• Supporting families impacted by trauma, family violence, mental health and other complex challenges.
• Working collaboratively with Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH), Child Protection and community partners.

About the Program

The Strengthening Families program provides early intervention and preventative support to families experiencing vulnerability or escalating challenges that impact parenting, family functioning and child wellbeing.

Working from a strengths-based, trauma-informed and culturally responsive framework, the program empowers families to identify goals, build resilience and access the supports they need to thrive.

Through timely support and practical assistance, the program helps children remain safe, supported and connected to their families and communities while reducing the likelihood of future statutory intervention.

Benefits of working at Uniting

At Uniting, you'll enjoy:

• Working in a large values-led organisation with real community impact.
  Flexibility to balance work and life while working part-time.
• Up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits that can be used for everyday living expenses.
• Save on dining out and entertainment with an annual meal entertainment benefit of up to $2,650.
• Increase your annual leave entitlements through our purchase leave program.
• An extra 17.5% on top of your fortnightly pay when you take annual leave.
• Opt in or out of public holidays and be respected for your unique background.

Your skills and experience

You're an experienced family services practitioner who can build strong relationships with families, work independently and deliver child-focused interventions that promote safety and stability.

You will bring:

• Experience working within Family Services supporting vulnerable children and families.
• Demonstrated ability to capture and advocate for the child's voice in practice.
  Strong understanding of child development, trauma, attachment and family-centred practice.
• Relevant tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, Welfare or a related discipline.
• Current Victorian Driver License and ability to work autonomously in the community.

Click here to view the position description.

How to apply

Click APPLY to submit your interest, and we’ll get in touch shortly. If this role sounds like a good fit for you, apply soon. We'll be reviewing applications as they come in and may close the advert early.

For any questions, reach out to Leanne Longmuir leanne.longmuir@vt.unting.org or Mark De Renzy mark.derenzy@vt.unting.org during business hours. Please submit your application online to be considered for this role.

About Uniting

We create real change in people’s lives by working in partnership with people, communities, governments and other agencies to reduce the impact of poverty, trauma and disadvantage.

We provide compassionate care for people facing tough times and personal challenges. We support children and young people to break the cycle of disadvantage. We help families keep safe, together and thriving.

For over 100 years we’ve been fighting inequality, opposing discrimination, and responding to the needs in our communities across Victoria and Tasmania.

Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org

We are an inclusive, values-led organisation and proudly welcome people of all identities, backgrounds and experiences. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with lived and living experience relevant to our work.

We are committed to inclusive hiring practices. You are welcome to share your pronouns and let us know if you require any adjustments during the recruitment process. We are here to support you.

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed to the safety, wellbeing and empowerment of all children and young people. We embed child safety in everything we do. Employment with Uniting is subject to relevant pre-employment checks, including a National Police Check and Working with Children Check.