Join our Family Services Team.

• Permanent Part Time position (4 days a week)
• Increase fortnight take-home pay with access to $15,900 salary packaging benefits!
• Access training and development opportunities to help you grow.

Your new role

As a Senior OOHC Carer Intake, Recruitment, Training and Support worker you will provide further resourcing to our Foster Care team through intensive carer recruitment and retention activities, supporting accreditation and assessment of foster carers and providing intensive support and supervision to carers as required.

You will be responsible for quality and audit compliance and comprehensive case noting and reporting, as well as assisting the OOHC Intake coordinator to manage the daily intake of foster care placements and related admin tasks as they arise. 

Working closely with the OOHC Intake Coordinator, OOHC Team Leader and Program manager and marketing team you will help drive carer recruitment and accreditation across Eastern Melbourne.

You are self-motivated enthusiastic, skilled individual who can make clear recommendations regarding suitability for accreditation, and strengths and vulnerabilities of a potential carer when looking after children.

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 of SCHADS Level 5 + super, you can access the following. 

• Enjoy a 10% discount at Uniting Early Learning, or 60% for centre staff!
• Up to 10 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers (4 for secondary).
• Free counselling with our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Access training and development opportunities to help you grow.
• We recognise contributions with our annual awards programme!
• Enjoy 25% off at Uniting Op Shops.

Your skills and experience

You will bring with you:

• Tertiary qualification in Social Work, Counselling, Psychology or other related field.
• Essential : Experience and demonstrated ability to work with children and young people who have experienced past trauma and abuse
• Excellent organizational time management skills, the ability to work under pressure and respond to competing/changing priorities and adapt easily to change.
• Demonstrated ability of working within a highly confidential environment.

 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 Stacey Hopkins on 03 8792 8999 for a chat or email stacey.hopkins@vt.uniting.org.

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 LGBT+. 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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