About us…
KWY is an award-winning Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation delivering culturally grounded programs that support Aboriginal people, families and communities to create positive, lasting change.
Since 2011, KWY has worked to break the cycle of domestic and family violence, strengthen family wellbeing, and reduce the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in the child protection system. Our services span family support, youth work, men’s behaviour change, kinship care, reunification, social and emotional wellbeing, research, and workforce development.
Supporting more than 2,300 families each year, KWY offers a collaborative, values-driven workplace where your work makes a genuine difference in the lives of Aboriginal families and communities.
About the position...
The KWY YERTA program is a collaboration between the Department of Education (DE) and the Department of Human Services (DHS) to implement a culturally intensive family support service in the western suburbs of Adelaide to improve school attendance for primary and high school aged Aboriginal children and young people who have missed more than 35 days of school in the previous school term.
The YERTA Practitioner works alongside the family, school, and community to identify cultural safe ways and long-term cultural solutions to increase and sustain school attendance. The Practitioner is guided by the voice and decisions of the family and school that overcome barriers to school attendance. The Practitioner provides outreach support to the whole family in the home, school, and community. Practitioners will offer cultural support, therapeutic support, case management, advocacy, referrals, and education.
We offer fixed-term contract for a period of 12 months.
Key Responsibilities...
The successful applicant will possess skills, experience and knowledge in complex case management and work through a trauma-based lens. The Practitioner has experience working with Aboriginal families and their communities.
The practitioner will provide support to children, youth and their families who have experienced high rates of school absenteeism. The safety and school attendance of the children is the primary focus. The Practitioner will ensure quality cultural informed services are provided to children and young people who are experiencing complex, social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties, prioritising school retention and safety of the children and family.
About you...
The successful applicant will have demonstrated the below essential criteria:
What we offer...
Job requirements...
About applying...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly 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.
