Family Connect and Support Worker - Indigenous

at  MacKillop Family Services

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact? Join our vibrant team at MacKillop Family Services as a Family Connect and Support Worker (FCS), contributing to providing high quality intake, referral, outreach and case coordination services to vulnerable children, young people and their families in the community.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Valid and current Driver’s Licence;
• Satisfactory Criminal History Check (paid for by MacKillop);
• Valid and current NSW Working with Children Check;
• Valid and current NDIS Workers Screening Check

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The FCS provides a regional intake and referral service and a catchment-wide telephone service from shop-fronts in Batemans Bay, Bega, Queanbeyan and Goulburn, with outreach to specified areas within the catchment.
The Family Connect and Support Worker is responsible for providing high quality intake, referral, outreach and case coordination services to vulnerable Aboriginal children, young people and their families in the Eurobodalla community.
As an employee within the MacKillop team you will report to the Team Leader Family Connect and Support, MacKillop.
This is a part Time position offering 19 hours per week reporting to the team leader

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure that vulnerable Aboriginal children, young people and families receive services that meet their needs.
• Use a child-centred and family-focused approach to identify strengths, needs, risks and protective factors.
• Establish collaborative relationships with a wide range of specialist, Aboriginal specific, and mainstream services to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families
• Work collaboratively with Statutory Bodies and support services, including Aboriginal specific support services, across the area to improve linkages and develop integrated service responses.