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!
About the Post Separation Services Program
Berry Street’s Post Separation Services (PSS) in the Hume Region offer a suite of services to support separated parents who are experiencing entrenched conflict. Funded by the Australian Federal Government Attourney General's Department the PSS offers an Educational program called Post Separation Co-Operative Parenting Program (PSCOP) and the Childrens Contact Service (CSS).
PSCOP key objective is to reduce parental conflict and assist parents to implement and manage cooperative parenting arrangements through the delivery of brief but impactful, psycho educational workshops.
The CCS aims to minimise a child's exposure to conflictual situations by assisting separated parents in managing contact arrangements through the provision of supervised visits and changeovers. The CCS supports families through a case support model.
The Opportunity
This role will assist with the activities of the CCS ( Children's Contact Service) program supporting children and their family members during changeover or supervised visits and provide a safe and secure environment.
Provide holistic family support services to clients guiding them from intake to self-management during this time you will be developing transition plans, regular communication with community and legal services.
You will meet the families at the point of need and support parents to re-establish positive relationships with their child.
About You
The successful applicant will come with skills including:
We require a minimum Diploma Level qualification in either Community Services, Social Work and Sociology or in relevant field.
The Benefits
How to Apply
Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position to be submitted ASAP as application are being assessed as we receive them.
Queries to Linda Culpan - Senior Manager on 0411 623 762
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 or call 9421 9379.
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.
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.
