About Children's Ground
Children’s Ground is a First Nations organisation. The Children’s Ground Approach is designed and delivered through the leadership of First Nations people. We are committed to systems change to ensure dignity, justice and equity for all children and families. Our work focuses on national reform as well as evidencing a new way of working.
The Children’s Ground Approach is a whole of community, whole of life approach. We privilege First Nations knowledge systems and practice. Over the course of a generation, led by local expertise, we create and deliver an integrated system that is centred on learning, development and wellbeing that responds to the child and their family through the key transition points from pre-birth to young adulthood.
Our approach recognises the cultural, social, and economic strength of our communities. We build on this over a generation to ensure a future for our children and grandchildren that gives them freedom, opportunity and rights to their culture and identity.
Children’s Ground operates in Central Australia and across the Top End, with support provided by a Melbourne-based Shared Services team.
About you
You are a compassionate and culturally grounded professional who is committed to supporting First Nations children and families to thrive. You bring experience working alongside communities and understand the importance of culturally safe, strengths based, and trauma informed practice.
You are confident building strong relationships with families and stakeholders, and you communicate in a way that is respectful, adaptable, and community led. You have experience supporting families through complex challenges, including child protection contexts, and are passionate about early intervention and keeping children safe and connected to family, culture, and community.
About the role
The Family Support Officer delivers high quality Family Support Services aligned with the Children’s Ground Approach, supporting strong, safe, and connected families through program implementation and facilitation.
This is a part-time role (3–4 days per week).
Salary: $89,206.82 per annum (pro rata for part-time hours) plus 12% super.
Key Responsibilities
Essential Key Selection Criteria
Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and the position may be filled before the advertised closing date.
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.
