At UnitingCare Queensland we care for and support children, young people and their families across Queensland to live safe, healthy and productive lives through the delivery of services that are flexible and responsive to their individual needs.

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking expressions of interest from a humble, hard working, self motivated and reliable person to join our Goodna Therapeutic Residential team as a Full Time Senior Care Practitioner on a fixed term basis until 30 June 2021.

For this role, we require you to be passionate about improving the lives of children in the child protection system, be highly motivated, resilient and have a good understanding of the impact of trauma on children and their development.  Ideally, you will have an understanding of the CARE framework including Therapeutic Crisis Interventions. You will be required to provide support to the Service Leader in all aspects of the day to day operations and general practice of the service; form and maintain collaborative partnerships with stakeholders; provide reports and attend meetings as required. The position offers a Full time role with 76 hours per fortnight, whilst being a part of a 24/7 Roster with expectations to work weekends.

In addition to the above your role will also include but not be limited to:

• Maintaining a Clean and Safe home environment
• Managing Day to Day tasks within the context of a residential care home
• Completing verbal and written reports as and when required
• Leading best practice within the context of a multi-disciplinary team approach
• Supporting and debriefing with youth workers and care practitioners following critical incidents

About You

To be successful in this role you will ideally have a strong understanding of the child protection system and more specifically previous exposure to a residential or out of home care environment. In addition you will have a strong therapeutic background ideally with a well-developed understanding of C.A.R.E principles.  

Supplementing the above you will require the following qualifications and certificates:

• A minimum Cert IV or above  in human services, community services, Youth Services or related field
• Current Blue Card (or willingness to apply for one)
• A current Qld Driver Licence (Must be Open and valid licence - to be confirmed prior to offer of employment)
• A senior First Aid Certificate (must be valid and hold prior to employment)
• Be subject to relevant criminal and child protection system checks

We ask a lot of our people but we also give a lot back!

As one of the largest employers in the sector and the state, UnitingCare Queensland offers a variety of benefits including values based work environment, discounted products and services, attractive salary packaging, career development and lifestyle benefits.

We are a people centred organisation as the hours of  our positions are dictated by the needs of the people we support the availability for each role may differ. As this roles support young people in residential setting flexible 24 hour availability is required as this role will involve shift work and sleepovers.

UnitingCare Queensland is committed to being a child safe, child friendly organisation and for all children who come into contact with our services we will provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services, prevent child abuse and neglect within our services and appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur 

Through our values UCQ are proud of our teams diversity, we believe in the strength of a diverse and inclusive workforce to help us achieve the best outcomes for the communities in which we operate and  serve. We highly encourage applications from people who identify as a part of the Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Community.