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Family Engagement Worker

3 months ago

Melbourne, United States Department of Justice and Community Safety Full time

Role

The Family Engagement Worker is an integral part of a new Family Engagement Service offered at both prisons and will be responsible for assisting women prisoners and their families to maintain relationships or re-establish contact with family. Using a whole of family approach, the Family Engagement Worker will identify, assess, and coordinate family engagement planning and referrals for women and their families. This will include liaison with other Government departments, such as the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) Child Protection and working on strategies to assist women to transition to the family unit and the community in general.

The Family Engagement Worker will also work closely with other prison staff and service providers to ensure activities that support women, and their families operate in a collaborative, integrated, and coordinated manner.

Some of your duties will include:

Assist women to re-establish and/or strengthen relationships with their children and other family members while in custody. Act as a point of contact with agencies such as DFFH Child Protection, including where women identify a desire to maintain/re-establish contact with their children who may be in out-of-home care arrangements. Coordinate and involve women in goal setting during all stages of imprisonment to encourage and support women and their families' engagement during all types of contact.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have:

Demonstrated knowledge of complexities associated with women in custody, including transition and reintegration issues and needs of women prisoners. Experience working with women and their families Experience in working with difficult to engage clients Capacity to work within a prison setting Experience delivering parenting programs (desirable)

How to Apply

Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include national police checks and misconduct screening.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.

FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES:

For this particular vacancy, priority consideration applies to Victorian Public Service (VPS) and select employees of the Victorian Public Sector who apply through the Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) jobs board platform. For all VPS employees, due to the new Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) policy, please apply through the JSE to be eligible to be considered for this position in the first round.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT:

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.