ABOUT THE ROLE

Kinship Care is the care provided by relatives or a member of a child’s broader network when a child cannot live with their parents. Statutory Kinship Care placements occur when Child Protection intervene, and a decision is made that a child is placed or remains with a relative or other community member.
The Kinship Care Practitioner will support Kinship Care families to care for children’s safety, stability, and development. To provide new kinship placements with family services support, and flexible brokerage, which will maintain and promote the stability of the placement. The position will also supervise and support case contracted Kinship Care placements to achieve permanency for children in out-of-home care. The position requires regular travel outside the office base to outreach to client homes or other designated outpost facilities.

SPECIFICALLY, THE POSITION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Providing case management with new Kinship Care placements and long-term statutory kinship placements
• Developing and reviewing client-centered plans which guide the support provided to children and their families
• Assisting Kinship Carers and extended family members to become a self-managed care team
• Developing and reviewing clients’ progress goals, using agreed outcomes measures and other relevant toolsMaintaining client data and information as required by legislation and funding body requirements