Every child deserves to feel safe, supported and able to thrive. At Parkerville, we work alongside children, young people and their families to build strength, overcome the impacts of trauma and create brighter futures. Together, we’re striving to make Western Australia the safest place in the world for children - a place where every young person can dream big and reach their full potential.
About the Role
As a Case Worker in the Reconnect program, you’ll work alongside young people and their families to strengthen relationships, improve wellbeing and build connections with education, community and support services.
Reconnect is a free, voluntary, and confidential program to help prevent young people, aged 12 to 18 years from becoming homeless and encourage them to stay connected with family and the community. Reconnect provides an outreach service for both young people and their families.
This role is offered on 1.0FTE basis, with the option of also working part time at 0.8FTE at our Midland location.
What You’ll Do
In this role, you’ll build strong connections across the sector, working closely with referral partners including the Department of Communities – Child Protection and Family Support, schools, alternative education providers, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, and crisis accommodation services. You’ll also liaise with community groups and other programs involved in each young person’s life to ensure coordinated, holistic support.
You’ll actively participate in case reviews, team meetings and training, contributing to a collaborative and reflective team environment. Working in partnership with your Line Manager, you’ll take ownership of your professional development through regular supervision, probation and performance review processes.
You’ll also ensure accurate and timely data capture to support internal reporting and external progress reporting, contributing to continuous improvement and positive outcomes for young people.
In order to be successful for this role, the applicant will have:
• Tertiary Qualifications in Youth Work, Psychology, Social Work, or relevant Social Science degree
• Experience working with clients with complex needs in a case management and advocacy role for young people and families
• Experience in the delivery of therapeutic models of family work and individual counselling
• Demonstrated self-management skills, including a capacity to work autonomously in a responsible and effective manner
• A demonstrated capacity to work effectively with sector agencies and the community.
Parkerville Children and Youth Care are uniquely positioned to provide the successful applicant with the following benefits:
We hope to hear from you by 4:00pm, Monday 11th May 2026. Applications will be assessed on a regular basis, and we may not wait until the closing date before you hear from us.
We reserve the right to close the position earlier.
Parkerville Children and Youth Care is committed to child safety and complies with the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations.
We have zero tolerance for anything that puts children and young people at risk.We welcome applications from all genders, sexualities, ages, abilities, religions, and cultural backgrounds.
We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 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.
