Child Protection Caseworker (Helpline & After Hours)

Job description

Child Protection Caseworker After Hours Response & Helpline: Location: Liverpool: Employment type: Ongoing: Salary: $89,934 – $116,969 pa plus superannuation and annual leave loading We are recruiting to several roles in our Child Protection Helpline and After-Hours Response team. This is a targeted recruitment. While all applicants are welcome, preference will be given to candidates who meet the established standards of the role and are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait islander descent. This is because the Department acknowledges this lived experience contributes a perspective valuable to our work with this community. Your role: After Hours Response team: The After Hours Response Team (AHRT) provides a range of After Hours services, working in partnership with parents and carers, extended family members and services to meet the immediate safety needs of children and young people. The AHRT provides face to face field responses to children and young people in the metropolitan area and works with regional on call teams to provide an after-hours child protection response across NSW, from 4.30pm to 6am on Monday to Friday and 24 hours on weekends and public holidays. The team underta...