Senior Child Safety Officers are responsible for ensuring the safety, belonging and wellbeing of all children and young people in the child protection process.

The Senior Child Safety Officer (SCSO) is responsible for delivering statutory child protection services including assessment, intervention, casework, and case management for complex cases.

The SCSO is responsible for delivering services in accordance with legislation, practice guidelines and a strength-based framework for practice. They will also be required to co-work with Child Safety Officers and Child Safety Support Officers on complex and sensitive cases.

This role provides mentoring and support to develop the skills and knowledge of newly appointed and less experienced Child Safety Officers and to Child Safety Support Officers.

Job details

As a Senior Child Safety Officer, you will:

• Deliver accountable and collaborative integrated child protection services for complex and sensitive cases in a manner that respects the culture and context of each child, young person, family and community in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, statutory responsibilities, and the child protection framework for practice.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues, stakeholders, including children, young people and their families, NGOs, service providers, medical professionals, police and others to provide high quality strength-based child protection practice in complex and sensitive cases.
• Participate and contribute productively as a team member to form culturally appropriate, professional working relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, including children, young people and families, Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), and other service providers.
• Foster a culture and philosophy of quality frontline service delivery based on collaboration, cooperation, commitment to excellence and professional ethics.
• Maintain high quality case records in accordance with departmental case management requirements. Prepare, and support less experienced Child Safety officers prepare, quality case management reports.
• Participate and contribute to a culture of continuous learning, training and professional development to ensure practice knowledge and skills are contemporary and evidence based.
• Draw on professional practice experience in relevant child protection fields to provide coaching and mentoring to new and less experienced Child Safety Officers and to Child Safety Support Officers by providing support and advice and demonstrating quality practice to develop their skills and knowledge.
• Develop and contribute to continuous quality improvement strategies.

Your mandatory requirements

• Possession of a degree in social work, human services, the behavioral sciences or legal studies from a recognized tertiary institution.
• It is mandatory for Senior Child Safety Officers to hold a Blue Card administered by the Queensland Public Safety Business Agency.
• Possession of a “C” class driver's licence.

How you'll be assessed

The department is seeking to identify the most suitable person for this position. We will consider your demonstrated knowledge, skills and experience relevant to the key responsibilities of the position (outlined above), along with your demonstrated personal attributes, and may also consider your potential contributions to the department's equity and diversity objectives.

Our selection panel consider this position to be an individual contributor within the Queensland Public Service Leadership competencies for Queensland (LCQ) framework and will be looking for demonstrated capability within in your application.

How to apply

To enable us to assess your application, please submit the following via www.smartjobs.qld.gov.au:

• Resume and minimum of 2 referees including their email addresses. At least one referee should have a thorough knowledge of your work over the past two years as your manager or supervisor.
• a statement not more than two pages, that summarizes your skills, experience and achievements against the leadership competencies and duties/responsibilities of the position.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Please ensure you download all attachments and follow the instructions on how to apply.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• 662038-25-Role Profile (Word, 749KB)