Out of Home Care Case Manager

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MacKillop Family Services seeks a full-time Out of Home Care Case Manager in West Perth to deliver quality case work for children in foster care, support foster carers and help recruit carers. You will manage a caseload, apply trauma-informed practice, conduct intake and assessment, support matching of care arrangements, and build links with the Department of Communities. The role requires a tertiary qualification in Social Work or equivalent, OOHC case work experience, knowledge of Aboriginal culture, strong planning and communication skills, and current checks including driver’s licence, WWCC and NDIS Worker Screening. Benefits include salary packaging, development and EAP. To apply, address all Key Selection Criteria with concrete examples, tailor your resume to OOHC and carer support, and review the PD; shortlisting may commence immediately.

About the role

The Case Manager is responsible for providing a high quality and effective case work service for children and young people in foster care. The role will also assist in the recruitment of foster carers, including providing day to day support and developing carers’ capacity, skills and understanding to best meet the needs of the children they are caring for.  

The Case Manager will manage a case load of children and young people ensuring that case work practice, including documentation, is responsive to individual needs and reflects the organisation’s values, policies, practice frameworks in line Departmental expectations, ensure that children and young people in Out of Home Care receive responsive trauma informed care and targeted services that meet their needs, participate in intake and assessment of new referrals into the service, identifying the child or young person's individual needs and identifying capacity and making recommendations on suitable matches for care arrangements within the service’s current carer pool, ensure foster carers are supported to provide consistent high- quality care and positive outcomes for the children and young people in their care through regular carer support and development opportunities, establish and maintain collaborative relationships with the Department of Communities, and a wide range of specialist and mainstream services to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families.

This is a Full-Time opportunity based in West Perth, WA within our Out of Home Care, WA program. The position reports to the Out of Home Care Coordinator.

Key Selection Criteria:

To be successful in this role, the incumbent will have:

• A knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal culture and values and an awareness of the current issues faced by Aboriginal children, young people and their families.
• Tertiary qualification in Social Work or other relevant qualification.
• Knowledge of, and experience in OOHC case work practice.
• The understanding and capacity to work within a trauma informed framework with children and young people supported by our service.
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload whilst working with the Case Management team.
• High quality written and verbal communication skills.

Please address the full Key Selection Criteria outlined in the PD as part of your application.

For a full position listing, please click APPLY. The Position Description is available for review at the bottom of the page.

For more information, please contact:

Samuel Thuo at [email protected]

Our offer:

• Generous Salary Packaging (helps increase your take home pay)
• Ongoing Career Development, Education and Training 
• Employee Assistance Program – free and confidential counselling, coaching and emotional support for work and personal challenges
• Click HERE to find out more about becoming a member of the MacKillop Family Services team and what further support we have to offer our employees.

You must have a:

• Valid and current Driver’s Licence;
• Satisfactory Criminal History Check (paid for by MacKillop);
• Valid Employee Working with Children Check;
• Valid and current NDIS Workers Screening Check (for risk assessed / client facing roles). MacKillop can assist successful candidates with their application.

Our Commitment:

MacKillop celebrates and draws strength from diversity and respects the dignity of all people. Every person at MacKillop has the right to be safe and to be treated justly. We value every person’s ability, cultural or linguistic backgrounds, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, intersex status, relationship status, religious or spiritual beliefs, socio-economic status, and age.

It is our goal that MacKillop Family Services continues to evolve as a culturally safe, culturally competent, and welcoming organisation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people, families, and communities.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.

Shortlisting for this position may commence immediately so please submit your application as soon as possible.