Permanency Coordinator

We’re expanding our Aboriginal workforce and are looking for people from across NSW to work alongside child protection practitioners to ensure vulnerable Aboriginal children grow up safe and connected to kin and Country.

This aims to give more children and young people safe and stable homes in which they can thrive, and reduce the number of children who enter or remain in statutory care for long periods.

As a Permanency Coordinator, your daily duties may include:

• Facilitating the ongoing use of services that enable achievement of the goals in children and young people’s case plans.

• Maximising the use of services that prevent entry to care or facilitate exit from care
• Collaborate with different DCJ divisions/directorates, primarily across child protection and Commissioning and Planning teams, as well as NGOs and other government departments to identify, allocate and access appropriate packages/services in line with the child or young person’s case plan goals and ensure support packages are achieving required outcomes
• Supporting DCJ and NGO Caseworkers and DCJ Contract Managers through monitoring, review and quality assurance of NGO delivered services to ensure case plan goal achievement in stated timeframes
• Facilitating access to services, including specialist supports such as Multi-systemic Family Therapy, specialist drug rehabilitation and community services that support each family member, to achieve identified case plan goals and build family resilience
• Maintaining comprehensive and current knowledge and  establish collaborative relationships with government and non government,  local community and specialist services to ensure the “right referral fit” for each and every child, young person and their family
• Providing advocacy when required to ensure that DCJ, NGOs and government agencies are all meeting their accountabilities to achieve case plan goals
• Supporting DCJ Contract Managers to identify service gaps and work with DCJ Commissioning and Planning teams and the non-government sector to fill identified gaps and develop capacity to meet the needs of children, young people and their families

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Our vision is to enable vulnerable people to participate fully in NSW social and economic life and build stronger, more sustainable and inclusive communities.