YFCS - Safehouse Case Worker - 4.1 PFT

Job description

Position Summary Tangentyere: Council Aboriginal Corporation (TCAC) is a community controlled Public Benevolent Institution delivering human services and social enterprise activities for the benefit of Aboriginal people from the Alice Springs Town Camps, urban Alice Springs, and Central Australia. Tangentyere Council deliver a range of Youth, Families & Community Safety (YFCS) services across Town Camps and Alice Springs, supporting children, young people, families, and communities through the delivery of daytime and after-hours services focussed on recreation, diversion, out of home care, community safety and family support programs. The Tangentyere Safe House (Ndarndarinjika Safe Houses) provides short term accommodation for Aboriginal children between the ages of 0-12 years old, including respite care. Working from a child centred, therapeutic approach, the program aims to ensure that children and young people are supported therapeutically through the safe provision of a physically, emotionally, and culturally appropriate family environment. The service recognises continued connection to family and culture as integral to a child’s identity and has cultural safety as a fundamenta...