Therapeutic Worker - FMHSS

Working closely with senior staff to undertake the key objectives, this role provides practical assistance tailored to the needs and situation of each child, young person and family.

• Provide counselling, case work and group work.
• Conduct child-centred assessments and risk screening of clients referred, working in a whole of family context.
• Undertake child focused and trauma informed case work with vulnerable and complex families.
• Develop and deliver therapeutic and educational group programs.
• Develop partnerships and linkages with other services to establish good referral pathways into and out of the service to reach vulnerable children, young people, families, and carers, who may not otherwise engage with the mental health or children’s services sector.
• Work with children, young people, and families to identify risk factors or issues which may lead to poor mental health outcomes later in life and work with the child, or young person and their family to address these issues and strengthen protective or positive factors.
• Establish effective partnerships with other family and children’s services and with the local network of ‘first-to-know’ agencies such as schools, early childhood centres and child welfare agencies which are vital in identifying at-risk children or young people.
• Proactively accountable for own work through regular participation in supervision, up-to-date calendar and data entry record keeping of services provided through the Penelope client information system and Outlook calendar.