The Department for Child protection is seeking a Practice Leader to join the Murraylands office on a full-time term basis.

The role is responsible for:

• Providing local leadership to embed and operationalise the Practice Approach, providing advice, information, resources, mentoring, coaching and other support to strengthen the practice capability of Office staff.
• Monitoring practice quality within the Office, identifying practice issues and developing and implementing quality improvement strategies.
• Leading strategic projects to build practice capability within the Office.
• Promoting a learning culture within the Office by developing and sourcing relevant training opportunities.

About You

To be successful in this role you will have significant experience in providing high quality evidenced based and culturally appropriate social work practice to children, young people, their families and carers.

You will also have leadership experience and be able to establish and maintain a professional learning and development environment, including contributing to the delivery of workplace learning opportunities, mentoring, coaching and co-working with staff.

The role requires you to have a clear and sophisticated understanding of the range of issues and systems affecting children and young people requiring care and protection, including their families and carers.

If you have experience providing cultural and reflective supervision in a child protection context and a demonstrated ability to model and promote reflective practice, then this may be the role for you.

Essential Qualifications: A degree level qualification in Social Work which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.

Persons of Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, who have the appropriate background and skills but do not have the essential qualification, may apply for and be engaged/assigned to the role of Social Worker and will be entitled to apply for any Allied Health Professional roles requiring a qualification in Social Work within the Department for Child Protection (DCP).

To find out more about this role, including the key selection criteria and special conditions, please click on the attached role description. 

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The Department for Child Protection (DCP) plays a key role in the protection of children, young people and their families within South Australia. The department provides support to vulnerable children and young people to be safe, strong and connected. 

What We Offer:

• Career progression tailored to your goals: we are a large organisation with diverse opportunities across metropolitan Adelaide, regional and remote South Australia
• Employee Assistance Program: confidential and independent counselling for employees and their families
• Strong commitment to learning and development
• Paid Parental and Partner Leave
• Free annual flu vaccination for staff
• Leave loading and salary packaging opportunities
• Access to Fitness Passport: a workplace health and fitness program that give you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.