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Family Worker / Specialist - Child & Youth

  • REF: REF75
  • Date listed: 16 Oct 2024
  • Location: Sydney
  • Category: Family & Domestic Violence
  • Type: Permanent

HiTalent Recruitment is seeking an experienced Family Worker / Specialist to join a community-based program in Western and South West Sydney. This role pays up to $90k plus super and $15,900k in salary packaging benefits and is full-time. 

Are you a compassionate and skilled community services professional with a desire to support children who have experienced trauma?

We are working exclusively with a well-respected not-for-profit organisation to seek a dedicated Family Worker / Specialist to join their team. In this position, you will play a pivotal role in providing support to children and young people who have experienced family and domestic violence; this role will also be responsible for providing group and play therapy, ensuring the service is child-centred, developing and designing the best practice models to support children that have experienced complex trauma.  

Reporting to the Program Manager, you will be responsible for:

  • Delivery of therapeutic services, including play therapies, tailored to the needs of children 
  • Recommend and provide support to parents around healthy child development, how trauma impacts the brain and support services available to families
  • Working with the mother and child to promote and repair the relationship 
  • Uphold organisational values and policies while maintaining a commitment to quality service delivery
  • Participate in the professional support and development of the service 

To be successful in this role, you will require: 

  • A tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology or similar 
  • Minimum 2 years of experience working with children with young people with childhood trauma 
  • Demonstrated proficiency in delivering play therapies, understanding of attachment theories and dyadic developmental therapy
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively independently and in a team

If you want to discuss the position further, please submit your resume so we can arrange an exploratory confidential call. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

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