Cultural Practice Advisor

Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety QLD; Cairns Regional; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety QLD – Edmonton QLD is seeking an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person to provide culturally safe child protection services within a multidisciplinary team.

The role focuses on delivering culturally appropriate services, drawing on your cultural knowledge to strengthen relationships with communities and families, and contributing to the department's cultural capability.

Qualifications

• Evidence of Attribute: Schedule One; Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person accepted by community.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, culturally safe and appropriate child protection services to children, families and carers serviced by the Child Safety Service Centre.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team drawing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions and customs.
• Foster respectful relationships with communities and enhance positive relationships between children/young people and their families.
• Share cultural knowledge to grow the department's cultural capability.

Job description

Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety QLD – Edmonton QLD

It is a genuine occupational requirement that this position be filled by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person. One of the referees should be an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person who can attest to the applicant's background, knowledge, skills and experience as they relate to the cultural capabilities.

Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will draw on your personal experience and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions and customs to provide high quality, culturally safe and appropriate child protection services to children, families and carers serviced by the Child Safety Service Centre.

You will have a clear focus on the provision of culturally appropriate services and will use your own cultural expertise and knowledge to foster respectful relationships with communities and enhance positive relationships between children/young people and their families. You will share your cultural knowledge and contribute to growing the department's cultural capability.

Evidence of Attribute: Schedule One, a person who identifies as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person and is either:

• accepted as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person by the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community in which he or she lives.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/705384/26