Carer Recruitment Assessor

• Canberra
• Full Time
• Flexible working arrangements
• Generous salary packaging & employee benefits

OzChild’s purpose is to support vulnerable children and young people by providing
healing, preventing abuse and neglect and strengthening families. OzChild delivers a
range of diverse services aimed at improving life opportunities for children and young
people including fostercare, kinship care, family services, education, disability and
family law services.

ACT Together is a consortium between Barnardo’s, OzChild, The Australian
Childhood Foundation, Premier Youth Works and Relationships Australia to deliver
the Continuum of Care domain for the Australian Capital Territory. This domain
brings together all of the service elements designed to support children and young
people who cannot live with their birth families.

The Carer Recruitment Assessor is responsible for sourcing and screening potential
fostercarers for ACT Together in accordance with relevant specified selection criteria
and who also demonstrate the following

• Capacity to parent ‘therapeutically’, i.e. with an understanding of how trauma impacts children and young people in their care.
• Capacity for reflective parenting, i.e. self-awareness, appreciation of their own experience of being parented as children and capacity to manage their own emotions
• Ability to emotionally connect with children who have experienced trauma and can respond to their particular needs by reflecting on underlying stresses and emotions which may be driving behaviour in children
• A willingness to nurture and support a child’s identity and cultural needs and in particular to foster their connection with birth family.

(refer to the position description for further details)

Enquiries are welcome and should be directed to Dee-Ann Brown, Manager at dbrown@ozchild.org.au or on (02) 6110 2203.

OzChild is an equal opportunity employer and encourages individuals of diverse backgrounds to apply. This includes, but is not limited to, those from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and GLBTIQ communities.