Senior Practitioner: Local Level Alliance

North West Queensland; Mount Isa City; Hybrid; AUD 105,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote location allowance

5 weeks annual leave

Employee Assistance Program

Individual learning plans

Internal employment and development

Job summary

54 Reasons, part of Save the Children Australia, seeks a Senior Practitioner to enhance collaborative planning and integrated responses for vulnerable children and their families across the Mt Isa/Gulf region. The role partners with the Regional Manager to engage services, support forums and drive case management.

You will work with local communities, stakeholders and agencies to identify gaps, coordinate activities, and promote child rights through holistic, rights-based practice and strong

Qualifications

• Knowledge of community service sector, including Indigenous organisations and services for families and children.

Responsibilities

• Identify agencies and programs in Mt Isa/Gulf region for vulnerable children and families.
• Coordinate forums and working parties to promote service delivery collaboration.
• Identify service gaps and report to peak bodies and decision makers.
• Coordinate Local Level Alliance(s) when required.
• Provide operational support for the Family Integrated Case Management Group.
• Network with partners to negotiate support arrangements for families.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Facilitation of meetings

Case management experience

Communication skills

Relationship building

Teamwork

Education

Social work / psychology / social sciences degree

Tools

MS Office

Database software

Job description

Job Description

In this role as Senior Practitioner, you will work closely with the Regional Manager to engage with services and communities across the Mt Isa/Gulf region to enhance collaborative planning and integrated responses for vulnerable children and their families.

54 reasons is Australia's leading child rights organisation - no ordinary not-for-profit.

Proudly part of the Save the Children Group and global movement, we're here to make sure that everyone understands their rights. So that children and young people have their rights met and thrive, in all their diversity.

We champion the children, young people and families we work with. We are inspired by the curiosity and creativity of children and motivated by the love of those who care for them.

With the child's voice at the centre, we provide quality services to children and their caregivers, advocating with them so that children develop, learn, and are connected, safe and confident. Our people are proudly local, reflective of the communities we serve - in every state and territory, and across regions, remote areas and capital cities.

Where you come in:

• Identifying key agencies and programs that contribute to the service systems across the Mt Isa/Gulf Region for vulnerable children and their families
• Coordination of forums and support the development of working parties and other activities that promote service delivery collaboration
• Assisting in the identification of service system gaps and communicating the information to peak bodies within the sector including decision makers
• Co-ordination of and support to Local Level Alliance/s when required
• Provide operational support for the Family Integrated Case Management Group
• Identify and network with a group of collective partners to jointly collaborate and negotiate support arrangement for families in the community to enhance the child/family safety and wellbeing
• Provide holistic case management, delivering support to vulnerable and disadvantaged clients and supporting relationships for favourable client outcomes

Does this sound like you?

You're a highly knowledgeable practitioner with well-developed stakeholder engagement skills, demonstrated ability to facilitate high level meetings and case management experience.

Benefits

• Remote Benefits: generous annual remote location allowance paid on top of your base salary, plus 5 weeks' annual leave to use in a range of ways to ensure you're able to perform at your optimum - excludes FIFO arrangements
• Festive leave available, in addition to regular annual leave
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program and regular monthly supervision
• Individual learning plans to assist in your career development
• Internal employment and development opportunities
• Friendly and flexible work environment

About the Employer

54 Reasons is proudly part of Save the Children Australia. We are a learning organisation that invests in the development and wellbeing of our people. Our workforce is approximately 1100 people strong, and proudly diverse, whether in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, cultures and beliefs.

We are creative, connected and accountable, bringing energy, guts and ideas to all we do to champion children in Australia and partner with families, communities and partners to bring about change.

Our people work from both home and office, with important moments held in-person to foster belonging and support professional development. Our leave provisions include personal, ceremonial and family violence leave as well as the ability to purchase additional leave. Remuneration is benchmarked and we offer full non-profit salary packaging benefits.

Other benefits include:

• Relocation assistance available for the right candidate if not based in Mount Isa
• Award rate salary (Level 5 - $53.43 per hour) plus full salary packaging benefits - use this link to see how much this benefit could mean to you!

About the Candidate

• Sound knowledge of the community service sector; including the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander organisations and services for families, children and young people
• Demonstrated ability to identify available services and service gaps; building on community capacity to provide more efficient service provision for families and a thriving local community
• Ability to build effective relationships, liaise and work collaboratively with program stakeholders, community members, relevant Government and non-Government organisations
• Strong communication skills and experience in report writing
• Strong time management and organisation skills
• Experience leading community meetings, networks, workshops and events
• Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability work effectively in a team
• Demonstrated experience in liaising with community working groups and providing information relating to emerging trends, issues, needs, opportunities and challenges
• Effective communication skills - written, verbal, interpersonal; including report-writing, presentations and meeting facilitation / participation
• Knowledge and/or experience in handling child protection concerns and processes
• Demonstrated competence in use of business technology, internet and desktop applications such as MS Outlook, Word, Excel spreadsheets, database packages and web-based information sharing portals
• Qualifications and/or equal experience in Social Work, Psychology, Social Sciences, Community Services or Community Development, with a focus on child and family service delivery
• Knowledge or an interest in working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and cross-cultural environments

Working at 54 reasons is more than just a job.