Job Title: Children and Families Intensive Support (CaFIS) Case Worker

Location: Tennant Creek and the surrounding Barkly region

Employment Conditions: Full Time Contract

Salary: $95,235 - $111,740 per annum

Generous salary packaging: $15,899.94 p/a

Professional development incentive: Allowance of $1,500p/a

Employment Type: Full Time

Reports to: CaFIS Team Leader 

Employee access to Medical Services: Free Prescriptions

Amazing further benefits including 6 weeks annual leave as well as personal/ carer’s leave up to 10 days per year, free general dentistry and Remote retention allowance of $750!

ATSI Identified: This position is open only to those who identify as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person.

Exciting opportunity for a full time CaFIS Family Support Worker – in our Piliyintinji-ki – Stronger Families Services Section, based in Tennant Creek.

Join this community-based organisation and make a genuine difference to our community!

This is a Rewarding role where you will truly make a difference in the lives of our Town and Remote Communities, providing the chance to experience real job satisfaction every day and play an important role in Anyinginyi Health's drive to be a Provider of High Quality Holistic Primary Health Care services to the Aboriginal communities of the Barkly region in a Culturally responsive way - don't miss out!

You will be joining a friendly and professional team, where you will receive personal and professional development opportunities from an employer who wants to provide optimum working conditions!

About us

Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation (Anyinginyi Health) is a multi-disciplinary organisation which provides primary health care services to the Aboriginal people of Tennant Creek and the surrounding Barkly region, dedicated to ‘Closing the Gap’ in Aboriginal health within remote Australia.

Anyinginyi Health is made up of four different sections (Health Services, Corporate Services, Public Health Unit and Piliyintinji-Ki Stronger Families) which allow them to have a holistic approach to health ensuring that clients’ physical and emotional health and well-being is given the utmost priority.

Anyinginyi Health's mission is to be a provider of high quality holistic primary health care services featuring prevention and treatment in the Barkly region in a culturally responsive way.

About the Tennant Creek region

Year-round blue skies, stunning landscapes, and vibrant, diverse, and warm communities - that's life in the Northern Territory! Only a short flight from most Australian cities, Tennant Creek is not just a must-see destination renowned for its individual identity and rich cultural heritage but is a remarkable community to set up home in!

500km north of Alice Springs, Tennant Creek was once a rough and tumble droving and gold mining town but is now a modern town and one of the Territory's most populated areas. It is home to a major regional hospital, a university, schools, shops and a supermarket, accommodation, bars, clubs and restaurants, banking facilities, sporting clubs and an airport - everything you need to set up a relaxing new lifestyle! People from all walks of life find themselves calling Tennant Creek home.

About the Role

The CaFIS Youth Worker will work to support the youth of families referred from Territory Families Housing & Communities (TFHC), Anyinginyi Health Services Section, other external agencies, and self-referral where a child or children has/have been identified as having experienced abuse and/or neglect or have been identified as being at high risk of neglect and/or abuse, in order to improve the care and safety of the child or children.

The CaFIS Youth Worker will work in a culturally appropriate way with the youth and develop support plans that meet the youth’s identified needs within the family referred. The role is part of a small team that ensures the program remains responsive to community need and that there is ongoing continuity of service and coverage for youth within families referred to the CaFIS program.

More specifically, some of your duties will include (but will not be limited to):

• Support ongoing development, coordination and facilitation of positive engagement, interventions and activities
• Undertake administrative duties including report writing and the timely management of electronic client data records and registers
• Work with the Department of Children and Families in relation to reporting and mandated processes as required.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of systems and processes, including work health and safety
• This role reports to and consults with the CaFIS Team Leader and will consult with the Team Leader.
• Ensure all program material and content is up to date, appropriate, relevant and
  engaging for the target audience.
• Be involved in collaboration with key stakeholders including community, government,
  and not-for-profit agencies, representing, and advocating for Anyinginyi Health and the program

About you

To be successful in this role, you must be able to demonstrate knowledge of Aboriginal culture and deliver services in a culturally responsive manner. You must be able to create and maintain accurate reports and have experience working in Child and/or Family Services or similar. Previous experience within Remote Communities, specifically the Tennant Creek Region is essential.

Essential skills and experience

• Minimum Diploma or higher-level qualification in Child, Family and Youth Interventions, Community Services, Counselling, or similar to sufficiently perform the key responsibilities of the Youth Worker role.
• Experience working in Aboriginal community health or welfare services and ability to support the delivery of culturally responsive programs and services with an understanding of the importance of traditional cultures, values and protocols, including Aboriginal child rearing practices.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills and ability to develop and maintain effective networks and relationships, within the Aboriginal communities and family networks.
• Well-developed communication skills necessary to work and inform a multi-disciplinary team and in cross-agency and cross-cultural environments.
• Demonstrated case management skills related to family, child and youth work, and knowledge of relevant legislation and service delivery.
• Experience in planning, implementing, tracking, reporting on and evaluating projects that have specified deliverables
• Well-developed skills and knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and the use of client information management systems to support timely data collection, analysis and reports.
• Evidenced ability to work independently with accountability and persistence.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience and knowledge of the Tennant Creek and Barkly Region.
• Ability to speak a local language.

Please note: 

• Confirmation of employment is dependent on the outcome of the successful application for an Ochre Card/ Working with Children’s Card and a Satisfactory Criminal History Check.
• All Anyinginyi Health employees must be Fully Vaccinated against COVID-19.
• Anyinginyi Health provides child-related services with obligations under the Commonwealth’s Child Safe Framework. All employees must fulfil their obligations under the Care and Protection of Children Act (2007).

If you meet the above criteria and you’re interested in contributing to an organisation where you can really make a difference in our local community, we want to hear from you!

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