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About the Role
As a Case Worker in the Families Together program, you'll support families experiencing complex challenges to create safer, stronger futures for their children. You will provide intensive, child-centred, strengths-based support through regular home visits, build trusted relationships, complete assessments, develop family-led plans, and coordinate practical, community and therapeutic supports. Working alongside families and partner services, you'll help reduce risk, strengthen resilience, and improve safety and wellbeing so children and young people can remain safely connected with their families. You'll also enjoy flexible work arrangements, a collaborative team, and ongoing professional development.
Responsibilities
- Managing a caseload of 7-9 families
- Engaging families through home visits, assessment, and planning, including assessment of strengths, needs and risk and safety planning
- Developing and implementing project plans, coordinating referrals and supports to meet identified needs
- Providing practical support, coaching, and guidance to strengthen parenting capacity, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Delivering services in line with organisational frameworks, policies, procedures and child wellbeing outcomes
- Maintain accurate and timely documentation
- Work in partnership with children, young people and families, internal and external stakeholders
Requirements
- University qualifications in social work or equivalent
- Experience in the community services or child and family sector is highly regarded
- Strong commitment to child-focused practice with a thorough understanding of child protection, legislation, and risk management
- Experience working with vulnerable and diverse children and families, including those from culturally diverse backgrounds
- Empathetic, supportive, and able to make sound judgments to protect children's rights and wellbeing
- Willingness to learn and apply feedback to improve clinical practice
- Current NSW Driver’s Licence
- Successful applicants will be subject to relevant pre-employment checks including Working with Children Check (NSW) or Working with Vulnerable People (ACT) and National Police Check.
Skills
- Child-focused practice
- Child protection
- Legislation
- Risk management
- Working with vulnerable and diverse children and families
- Culturally responsive practice
- Trauma-informed practice
- Strengths-based assessments
- Family-led plans
- Coordination of practical, community and therapeutic supports
- Parenting capacity strengthening
- Communication skills
- Problem-solving skills
Location
- Redfern
- Campsie
- Southeast Sydney
- Inner West
- Sutherland Shire
Work Type
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experience in the community services or child and family sector is highly regarded
Education Level
- University qualifications in social work or equivalent
Benefits
- Full not for profit salary packaging
- Comprehensive and role specific training and professional development opportunities
- Generous leave entitlements, including 12 days personal/carer's leave, paid parental leave, paid study leave, long service leave after 5 years, domestic violence leave, and an extra paid leave day between Christmas and New Year (NSW)
- Employee Assistance Program (free counselling)
- Monthly and Annual Rewards and Recognition Program
- Travel reimbursements
- Continuous Learning & Growth – Access professional development opportunities to further your skills and career
- A Strong Team Culture – Join a supportive, passionate, and fun team that is committed to excellence
About the Company
- SDN Children’s Services is a respected not-for-profit organisation that has been providing quality services for children and families for 120 years.
- Our purpose is to promote and enhance children’s wellbeing, learning and development in inclusive environments; and our vision is for an equitable world where all children thrive.
- We pride ourselves on creating a unique village where all children, families and staff belong.
- SDN Children’s Services is committed to being a child-safe organisation, prioritising the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people.
Equal Opportunity
- SDN Children's Services welcomes and encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.