Berry Street Yooralla's Foster Care and Kinship Care programs support children and young people who are unable to live safely at home, including those who have experienced trauma and require additional therapeutic support.
We are looking for confident and passionate individual to help grow and strengthen our Foster and Kinship Care community across the Gippsland region.
This role is all about connection, communication and community!
You'll connect with prospective carers, strengthen relationships with existing carers and build awareness of the important role carers play in the lives of children and young people.
No two days will be the same. You might be representing Berry Street Yooralla at a community event, building partnerships with local organisations, facilitating a carer hub, or supporting potential carers as they begin their journey.
Working across Gippsland, you will create meaningful community connections and contribute to increasing the number of caring homes available for children and young people.
You are a confident communicator and natural relationship builder who enjoys getting out into the community, meeting new people and turning ideas into action.
You may come from a background in community engagement, stakeholder engagement, marketing, communications, recruitment, social work or community services. Most importantly, you're passionate about engaging people, building partnerships and making a difference in the lives of children and families.
You will bring:
If you are passionate about connecting with communities, building relationships and encouraging more people to consider becoming foster carers, we would love to hear from you!
We believe in diversity, inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of the Victorian community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings, and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies.
We encourage applications from people with lived experience of disability. You'll receive adjustments and support throughout the whole process — from the application stage to starting in the workplace. If you require the position description in a different format or any accommodation or assistance during the application and interview stages please contact the person listed on the ad or alternatively email recruitment@berrystreet.org.au
Berry Street Yooralla is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.
Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a NDIS Screening Check, Working with Children Check and National and International Police check (if required) and NDIS training. Torres Strait Islander people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
