Practice Specialist

• Noble Park and Morwell offices on Boonwurrung and Gunaikurnai Country + WFH.
• Full-time, Fixed term contract until 28 March 2025.
• $106K plus super and salary packaging (pro rata).

The opportunity

An exciting short-term opportunity has opened for a skilled and passionate professional to step into the Practice Specialist role for a three-month period. This role is set to commence in January 2025 (with flexibility for the right candidate).

The Practice Specialist collaborates across programs to elevate practice standards, focusing on areas such as:

• Home-Based Care
• Residential Care
• Kinship Care
• ICMS (Integrated Case Management System)
• TCP (Targeted Care Packages)
• Integrated Family Services

This role is pivotal in enabling and supporting high-quality practice while addressing identified gaps to build confidence and capacity within teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinating and completing case reviews arising from major incidents.
• Driving practice improvement by leveraging insights and learnings from case reviews.
• Collaborating across programs to ensure consistent, high-quality service delivery.

About You

We are seeking a motivated and experienced individual who brings:

• Strong practice experience within the areas of focus mentioned above.
• Demonstrated ability to support high-quality practice in complex environments.
• Skills in identifying and addressing practice gaps to foster improvement.
• Excellent report writing, documentation, administrative, and organisational skills.
• Experience in case review and management (highly regarded but not essential for the right candidate).

Why Join Us?

This is a unique opportunity to contribute meaningfully to Berry Street’s mission while further developing your professional skills. Your work will directly enhance outcomes for children and young people by supporting staff to deliver exceptional services.

How to Apply

If this role excites you, please submit your current CV and a brief cover letter addressing:

1. What you can bring to this role.
2. Why you are interested in this position.

Applications will be reviewed upon receipt.

For any questions, please contact Kylie Pollard on 0499 311 621 or via email at kpollard@berrystreet.org.au.

Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and National Police Check.

Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply.