About the role:

Full-time permanent position located in Turner ACT

Base annual rate of $94,498 to $100,280 negotiable based on experience & qualifications

12% super plus access to generous NFP salary packaging options

About the opportunity:

Every child deserves a stable and loving home. As a Sustaining Families Caseworker, you will work closely with families facing challenges, providing trauma-informed and culturally responsive support to prevent children from entering out-of-home care. Through intensive home visits, goal setting, and support, you’ll help families develop essential parenting skills, improve relationships, and create safer environments for their children.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work directly with families facing multiple complexities and offering practical support to strengthen family bonds.
• Develop collaborative tailored case plans that prioritise child safety, stability and family wellbeing.
• Provide strategies that empower parents and caregivers' self detremination.
• Build strong relationships with community services, ACT child protection services, and other key stakeholders.
• Advocate for children and families, ensuring their voices are heard and valued.
• Participate in ongoing training and professional development to enhance your skills and impact.

Your Qualifications & Experience

• A tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, Community Services or a related field
• Experience in casework, case management, or working with at-risk children and families
• A deep understanding of child protection issues, risk assessments, and intervention strategies
• The ability to engage with families from diverse cultural backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
• Strong skills in building partnerships with external services to ensure the best outcomes for families
• A current driver’s license and willingness to travel for home visits – Pool car available
• A current WWVP card

Benefits and culture

Working to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice brings its own rewards, but there’s more.

• Welcoming you exactly as you are
• Access to generous salary packaging options as well as access to Uniting’s URewards retail partner program.
• 5 ex-gratia days per year as per EA and additional leave purchasing options.
• Wellbeing programs
• Career development opportunities such as training, education.
• Amazing workplace culture

Should you have any questions, please contact Belinda Condon from Uniting's Talent Acquisition Team at bcondon@uniting.org

Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks, which include National Police Checks, Working with Children Checks and Reference Checks.

Empowered by diversity:

At Uniting, inclusion isn’t just something we value – it’s how we work. Our culture and practice reflect the vibrant diversity of our colleagues, and the clients and communities we serve.

Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.

About Uniting:

When you’re part of Uniting NSW.ACT, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who are really making a difference to the world around them.

We contribute to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people through all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

Uniting leaders and employees work together to create a culture that is safe, inclusive and person-centred. We bring this to life every day through our values: compassionate, respectful, imaginative and bold.

Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to all Elders – past, present, and emerging – and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work.

Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.

• Work directly with families facing multiple complexities and offering practical support to strengthen family bonds.
• Develop collaborative tailored case plans that prioritise child safety, stability and family wellbeing.
• Provide strategies that empower parents and caregivers' self detremination.
• Build strong relationships with community services, ACT child protection services, and other key stakeholders.
• Advocate for children and families, ensuring their voices are heard and valued.
• Participate in ongoing training and professional development to enhance your skills and impact.

• Out of Home Care
• Child Protection Services
• Social Work
• Engage with families from diverse cultural backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
• Build partnerships with external services

• A tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, Community Services or a related field
• Experience in casework, case management, or working with at-risk children and families
• A deep understanding of child protection issues, risk assessments, and intervention strategies
• A current driver’s license and willingness to travel for home visits – Pool car available
• A current WWVP card