About us
Creating Links is a leading medium sized boutique NFP organisation that delivers a diverse range of services in the areas of children & family, disability, financial counselling, fostering and youth across the Greater Sydney area. At Creating Links, we aim to develop resilient, productive and inclusive communities and families.
We are an evolving, forward-thinking organisation that values a socially and culturally diverse community and ability to create opportunities to provide services and programs to our community.
Benefits of working at Creating Links:
- We have a diverse and inclusive culture, and you work with a passionate team
- Salary Benefits - You can package up to $15,900 pa of you pre-tax salary to pay for everyday expenses and benefit from a $2,650 meals and entertainment card before income tax is calculated, increasing your take home pay.
- Work/Life Balance - Flexible work arrangements, hybrid home/office work arrangements.
- Employee Assistance Program
- Professional Development – internal and external training and development opportunities
Job Description
As an OOHC Case Manager you will be responsible for the overall case management, case coordination and monitoring of placement quality for childrena nd young people in Out of Home Care in line with OOHC standards and legislation.
- Support & coordinate a child or young person’s needs through a multi-disciplinary lens, focusing on health, wellbeing, developmental, educational, therapeutic, and cultural needs.
- Practice with an in-depth understanding of cultural awareness
- Collaborate with all stakeholders in a child or young person’s network, including family, extended kin, service providers and carers.
- Monitor and review placements for children and young people’s safety and wellbeing.
- Report all incidents of abuse and neglect as per mandatory reporting responsibility to the Child Protection Helpline.
- Develop case plans that prioritise permanency goals of children.
- Plan and facilitate case plan meetings for children and young people.
- Work collaboratively with CARTS Team and ensure appropriate placement matching, placement review and placement transition plans for children and young people, with carers who can meet their safety, wellbeing, therapeutic and permanency outcomes.
- Explore viability of restoration to birth families.
- Facilitate restoration of children and or young people to their birth family as directed by the Department of Communities and Justice, following a children’s court order
