Team Leader/Child, Youth & Family Practitioner - Dual role

About the Role

Make a difference to children and young people working as an active Practitioner with a case load AND also work as a Team Leader supporting a close knit team working with children and young people in the community! We are looking for a Team Leader/CYF Practitioner for a fixed term opportunity to April 2027.

Work part time with a dedicated supportive team in this unique combined leadership / practitioner role!  

About the Accoras Team

Accoras has been delivering mental health and wellbeing services to South-East Queensland children, young people, adults and families for 30 years, working towards our vision of ‘good mental health for all’.

Come and join the team who make a difference everyday working with families to address mental health needs of children and young people, to help families better understand and support their child’s mental health.

 About you 

To succeed in this role you need to be highly motivated to perform, and be driven by core values consistent with the Accoras purpose and mission.  You will be a leader capable of supporting and directing others by overseeing all day-to-day aspects of service delivery and program implementation, including providing guidance related to general client work, partnerships, delivery of group work, and management of the program waitlist.

Specifically, you will need to demonstrate the following requirements: 

•   Be tertiary degree qualified in Social Work, Human Services, Psychology or similar

•   Have a minimum of two years' experience in successfully leading and supporting a team

•   Demonstrate relevant experience working in a clinical or therapeutic role with children and young people aged 0 - 18 and knowledge of child and adolescent mental health

•   Bring experience working from a strengths-based framework and utilising a client-centred and family-focused approach

•   Demonstrate skills in completing holistic assessments and delivery of interventions for children and young people who present with low-level mental health concerns

•   Demonstrate the ability to work confidently with family systems, providing advice and guidance around basic parenting and age-appropriate development

•   Demonstrate skills in making appropriate decisions and problem solving, including in crisis situations and where risk to client safety is involved

•  Bring highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, including the demonstrated ability to network and develop relationships with community partners and stakeholders

•   Be familiar with the local service community, or have the ability to rapidly become familiar with it.

What we offer:

• Above award rates with generous salary packaging options only available to employees of a not-for-profit organisation including Salary Packaging options (up to $15,899 tax free!!) and Meals and entertainment allowance of up to $2,650

• A flexible workplace that accommodates preferences for an eight or nine day fortnight

• Leave loading at 17.5%

• Portable Long Service Leave

• Additional paid leave over Christmas and on your birthday, and a paid volunteer day each year

• Free On-site parking

• Supportive and collaborative team environment

• Professional development, training and mentoring

To Apply

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