Family Connection Team- Identified roles

Family Connection team- Identified roles

Pay: 93000-103000 + super + salary packaging (aligned to experience)
Location: Logan / Brisbane / SEQ (with regular community-based travel)
Employment Type: Full-time (3 roles across various regions)

Tradewind Australia is recruiting for community-facing roles in a program which sits at the centre of a delegated authority child protection model, supporting statutory child protection decisions for referred Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families. The work is culturally grounded, family-led, and focused on strengthening safety and connection to kin, community and country.

About the Role

As a Family Connection Practitioner/Specialist, you'll engage children, young people and families using practice frameworks to support families to identify self-determined goals, develop compliant family plans, coordinate wrap-around supports, and action case management tasks and CEO recommendations linked to prescribed delegations.

You'll work closely with Child Safety and key stakeholders (health, education, youth justice, hospitals, community supports) to reduce systemic barriers, facilitate meaningful family time, and help keep children safe and connected.

Benefits

• Attractive salary + super
• Salary packaging options
• Work with an Aboriginal Community Controlled organisation in a high-impact program
• Strong practice framework, reflective supervision, and ongoing learning support
• A values-led team that's committed to "doing whatever it takes" for safety and connection

Key Responsibilities

• Engage families through outreach and home-based visits, building trust, consent and ongoing participation
• Facilitate family-led assessments translate this into clear goals and actions
• Develop and maintain self-determined family plans that address child protection concerns and meet legislative requirements (including health, education, placement, permanency, reunification, transition from care, cultural identity and connection)
• Plan and coordinate meaningful family time and connection opportunities (kin, community, country), including stakeholder coordination and logistics
• Assess, monitor and respond to risk (including safety planning for DFV, self-harm/mental health and child abuse), escalating appropriately and advocating through system barriers
• Prepare CEO recommendations and correspondence aligned to delegated authority referral and decision processes, and support timely distribution of decision letters
• Maintain high-quality case notes and records (including timely documentation, brokerage registers/receipts, consents, assessments and uploads)
• Maintain caseload expectations and minimum client contact rhythms (weekly contact and face-to-face expectations early in the case; ongoing purposeful engagement through to closure)
• Participate in monthly practice supervision, reflective coaching, and compliance requirements (WHS, incident reporting, vehicle checks, program risk reporting)

What You'll Bring

Essential

• This is an Identified role. Applicants must identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. This is a genuine occupational requirement under section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991.
• Qualification in a relevant social services field (with practicum/work history in family support, child protection, youth support or housing),
• Strong, community-first problem solving and risk assessment, with the child and family voice centred in decision-making
• High-quality case management: written communication, organisation, time management and consistent execution to the practice framework
• Applied practice skills: delivering (and adapting in real time) family interventions that build motivation, insight, agency and sustainable change
• Strong working knowledge of relevant legislation and the ability to navigate grey zones safely and ethically
• Confident stakeholder engagement and influence across Child Safety and allied systems (education, health, youth justice, hospitals)
• Ability to activate wrap-around care across internal services and troubleshoot barriers to access

Additional Requirements

• National Police Check
• Blue Card
• Current driver's licence
• Ability to work outside standard hours as required (including shared on-call across the team, including public holidays/skeleton staffing periods)

About Tradewind Australia

Tradewind Australia is a multi-award-winning recruitment agency, recognised nationally for delivering exceptional candidate experience across the education, social and community services sectors.

What sets Tradewind apart:

• Winner of multiple Candidate Experience Awards
• Specialist consultants with deep sector expertise
• Tailored support throughout the entire recruitment process
• Insight into organisational culture, leadership and role expectations
• Transparent communication and ongoing post-placement care

We focus on supporting people, not just filling jobs.

Apply Now

If you're ready to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families through a culturally grounded, family-led practice model (with real influence in delegated authority decision-making), we'd love to hear from you.

Please apply with your CV and a short cover letter, or contact our team at melissa.jacquier@twrecruitment.com.au or 1800 572 358 for more information.


Commitment to Child Safety, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity

Tradewind is committed to the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and vulnerable people. Tradewind considers that being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent is a genuine occupational requirement under section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act (1991) and is permitted as a special measure under relevant Commonwealth anti-discrimination frameworks.

All successful applicants will be required to undergo reference checks, identity verification and relevant statutory checks.