Berry Street is one of the largest independent agencies within Australia, providing diverse programs to over 35,000 young people, children and families across Victoria each year. We pride ourselves on our ingenuity, evidence based and multi-dimensional thinking to provide the best outcomes for our young people!
We believe children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful and strive to make this happen each day!
Your Opportunity
Berry Street in the Hume Region offers a Therapeutic Foster Care model providing enhanced carer support and service for children and young people with complex needs and behavioural challenges who require specialised support within a foster care setting. The Therapeutic foster care model includes the support of a therapeutic clinician and additional specialised training for carers providing therapeutic placements.
The Community Engagement position is a newly created position as a part of the Therapeutic Foster Care model with a focus on marketing, communications & carer recruitment, this role will drive initiatives to increase awareness of foster care opportunities and attract new carers capable of providing therapeutic foster care placements.
Your skills and experience
This position will be situated in our Foster Carer Recruitment, Assessment & Training team and is pivotal in expanding our foster carer resources to enable greater capacity to respond to regional demand for placement of children in therapeutic foster care.
Desired skills for the role include:
A Diploma qualification in in social work, psychology, marketing, communications, or business administration (with a marketing focus) or relevant field is required.
Berry Street Benefits
Apply now
Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position to be submitted ASAP as applications are being assessed as they are received.
Queries to Sharelle Davidson - Senior Manager on 03 5822 8143.
Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and National and International Police check if required and Victorian Carer Register clearance if applicable.
Berry Street 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 LGBTQIA+. 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.
Aboriginal and 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.
