Family Resource Practitioner – Young Families

Are you an experienced Family Practitioner looking for a licence to be creative and innovative? Are you passionate about working with children and young people?

We have a great opportunity to do early intervention work with young parents and their children and influence multi-generational change.

Be part of an exciting integration initiative where you will collaborate with housing, education and employment and peer work specialists to give families the tools they need to thrive.

You’ll be part of a friendly, fun, and supportive team. Driven by best practice and a shared vision to support young families!

YFS is a diverse organisation and a great place to work.

About the job

Role location:    Slacks Creek
Role type:           Permanent, full-time (5 days per week)
Pay range:           $97,689 a year per annum based on experience, with salary packaging exempt from Fringe Benefits Tax available

In this role you will:

• Build strong relationships with young families, supporting them to articulate their goals and ambitions, developing a tailored response to young families and “do what it takes” to support each family member to thrive.
• Work collaboratively with the team to build young parents’ capacity, confidence and wellbeing and improve children’s development.
• Work flexible from our office to out in the community and in family’s homes.
• You will be supported to engage in professional development, including the Safe and Together Model to support work in safe and healthy relationships with young parents.

About you

Aside from meeting the key capabilities outlined in the related role description available from https://www.yfs.org.au/work-for-us/ , the ideal person for this role will be innovative, creative, flexible, culturally aware and inclusive in their practice.

You’ll be a great fit if:

• You are passionate and knowledgeable about backing young parents to thrive, and well-equipped with case management, coaching or support work experience working with vulnerable families.
• You have a strength-based and trauma informed approach in your framework of practice, with a strong family and child focus.
• Have knowledge of adverse childhood experiences (ACES), child development, and impacts of trauma.
• Have prior experience working with young people and children.
• Have knowledge working with parents who are experiencing domestic and family violence, poor mental health and substance misuse.

About us

At YFS, we make a real difference to the lives of people living in Logan and surrounding areas.

We have a real commitment to seeing people thrive, including our staff. We encourage staff to bring their entire selves to work, because we know that a happy workplace thrives.

In our recent Employee Opinion Survey our staff said the best things about working at YFS are the challenging work/job satisfaction, fellow employees, teamwork, and pay and benefits.

We’re serious about your professional development. And we empower each other to make decisions and try new ways of working.

Depending on your role, we support flexible work arrangements.

We also offer great employment benefits including above-average pay rates, generous salary packaging (exempt from Fringe Benefits Tax), portable long service leave, counselling support and free parking.

To find out more about working with us, head to https://www.yfs.org.au/work-for-us/.

How to Apply

Interested?

Read Advice for Job Applicants and check out our Organisational Chart at http://www.yfs.org.au/workwithus/application-process

Send us your resume and a one-page covering letter outlining what you will bring to the job to yfsjobs@yfs.org.au.

Contact Amy Blair on 07 3826 1500 if you want to talk about the role.

Closing date: Monday 23rd September 2024 at 8.30am

Interviews are scheduled for Thursday 26th September 2024.

People from First Nations backgrounds, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, and people who identify as part of the LGBTIQA+ community are encouraged to apply.

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