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    "description": "<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px\">Position</span></span></p>\n<p>Community Bubs Practitioner  </p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px\">Team</span></span><br></span></p>\n<p>Families &amp; Community Program</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px\">Role Classification</span></span></span></p>\n<p>SCHADS Level 5</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold\">Employment Type</span></p>\n<p>Fixed Term, Part Time, 22.8hours per week  (0.6 FTE)</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px\">Location</span></span></p>\n<p>Sandringham, Frankston and Hampton East (Bunurong Land)</p>\n<p><em>From time to time the incumbent may be requested to work from or be based at other Family Life sites. </em></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: bold\"><br></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px\">Reports To</span></span></p>\n<p>Team Leader, Family Services</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px\">Effective Date</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 15px\"><span><span>June 2026</span></span><span> </span></span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: bold\">Overview of Program </span></p>\n<p>The Families &amp; Community Program at Family Life offers a range of services within the Bayside Peninsula catchment. This includes the Brief Support (BI/EH), Community Bubs, Integrated Family Services (IFS), Integrated Family Services Plus (IFS+) and Family Preservation &amp; Reunification Response (FPRR) Programs. These programs are aimed at providing an enhanced response to families with significant needs who have children under the age of 18 years old. Support is focused on strengthening the capacity of families to provide a safe, nurturing, and stable environment for their children. Support is also provided to vulnerable families and their children who are often involved with or at risk of entering the statutory Child Protection system.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>The Community Bubs Practitioner role is within the Family Services Program. The Community Bubs Program provides child-centred case management support to vulnerable families in their final stages of pregnancy, and in the early stages following their child’s birth. Community Bubs works on a capacity and skills building model with a focus on attachment and community connection to increase parenting confidence. The service is focused on strengthening the capacity of families to provide a safe, nurturing, and stable environment for their children.</p>\n<p>Support is based on an outreach model building links between the families and their community, providing education and guidance to ensure the infant is able to thrive and develop in the care of the parents/caregivers. The Community Bubs Program receives referrals from various pathways including The Orange Door, Child Protection, self-referrals or referrals from other services such as Maternal Child Health Nurses (MCHN).</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold\">Position Objective</span></p>\n<p>The Community Bubs Practitioner provides child-centred case management support to vulnerable families who are either in their final trimester of pregnancy or have an infant under 6 months old at the time of referral.</p>\n<p>Families engaged in the Community Bubs Program can receive support for a period of up to 9 months. The role provides service coordination, case management, ongoing assessment and intervention to vulnerable families. There is a particular focus on building the parent/carers’ confidence and connection to their local community.</p>\n<p>The Community Bubs Practitioner aims to increase the parent/carers’ responsiveness to their baby’s developmental needs, including their understanding of child development, play, and early learning. The Community Bubs Practitioner provides parents with education around building healthy and positive attachment with their child.</p>\n<p>The Community Bubs Practitioner will work with a range of clients where there may be complex needs and issues of risk and safety. The Community Bubs Practitioner will conduct weekly outreach visits with their allocated families and will provide needs-based case management utilising a child-centred, feminist and strengths-based approach. The Community Bubs Practitioner will work across case management as well as carrying a portfolio. Portfolios can include relevant groups or community based work, specialised portfolios, and internal policy and procedural tasks.</p>\n<p><span> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><br></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Key Responsibilities</span><br></span></p>\n<p>The key responsibilities include but are not limited to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Managing a high-risk caseload, with complex needs, using trauma informed approaches to practice, and utilising theoretical frameworks and evidence-based</li>\n<li>Working with families by applying a range of service modalities including but not limited to; intake and assessment, brief support, a care team approach, group work, outreach case management and developing strong working relationships with key agencies such as Child Protection, schools and Maternal and Child Health Services.</li>\n<li>Increasing capacity of parents to meet their child’s health, safety and developmental needs, and to build self-resilience through linkages to community support, education, and training and employment opportunities.</li>\n<li>Carrying specialist portfolios such as group work to promote interventions designed to strengthen family capacity and provide psychoeducation and reduce family violence in the community.</li>\n<li>Promoting safety and stability through strong assessment, case plans and application of appropriate risk assessment frameworks.</li>\n<li>Providing a collaborative response to Family Violence, including the provision of brief and medium-term interventions.</li>\n<li>Working effectively with parents from a range of backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from CALD backgrounds, people who are LGBTQIA+, people with a disability, and young people with a history in out of home</li>\n<li>Delivering services to quality standards, complying with relevant legislation and contractual requirements.</li>\n<li>Engaging in regular supervision and critical reflection with the Team Leader and group reflective practice with the Practice and Program Development</li>\n<li>Participating in appropriate training sessions, network meetings, team meetings and peer supervision as directed by the line manager.</li>\n<li>Collecting, recording and maintaining all required documentation to evidence impact and effectiveness of service delivery in a complete, accurate, and timely manner, as requested by the organisation’s standards and program contracts.</li>\n<li>Taking an active role in the organisational priority of building on our “place based” approach to support, by activating community to increase accessibility and community involvement in supporting local families.</li>\n<li>Practitioners are required to deliver a full time equivalent case load of 1,314 hours (at a minimum) of service delivery to clients annually.</li>\n<li>Facilitate a minimum of one group per year, which may require work after-hours. <br></li>\n</ul>\n<ul></ul>\n<ul></ul>\n<ul></ul>\n<ul></ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: bold\">Key Selection Criteria</span></p>\n<ol>\n<li>Managing a caseload of families and infants with complex needs, using trauma informed approaches to practice.</li>\n<li>Working with families by applying a range of service modalities including but not limited to; intake and assessment, brief support, care team approach, group work, outreach case management and developing strong working relationships with key agencies such as Child Protection and Maternal and Child Health Services.</li>\n<li>Increasing capacity of parents/caregivers to meet their child’s health, safety and developmental needs, and to build self-resilience through linkages to community support, education, and training and employment opportunities.</li>\n<li>Promoting safety and stability through strong assessment, case plans and application of appropriate risk assessment frameworks.</li>\n<li>Providing a collaborative response to family violence, including the provision of brief and medium term interventions.</li>\n<li>Working effectively with parents from a range of backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from CALD backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ people and people with a disability</li>\n<li>Carrying specialist portfolios such as group work to promote interventions designed to strengthen family capacity, provide psychoeducation, and reduce family violence in the community.</li>\n<li>Delivering services to quality standards, complying with relevant legislation and contractual requirements.</li>\n<li>Engaging in regular supervision and critical reflection with the Team Leader, and group reflective practice with the Practice and Program Development Advisors.</li>\n<li>Participating in appropriate training sessions, network meetings and team meetings as directed by the Team Leader.</li>\n<li>Collecting, recording and maintaining all required documentation to evidence impact and effectiveness of service delivery in a complete, accurate, and timely manner, as requested by the organisation’s standards and program contracts.</li>\n</ol>",
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