October 4, 2024

Tangentyere Council

Alice Springs

OTHER & PART TIME

Service Connector (Child Family Centre)

Level: 5.1
Salary: $96,368 per annum/pro rata
Hours/Employment Status: Permanent Part Time - 30 hours per week, Mon-Thurs.

The Community Centres Division provides innovative, unique, place-based programs support Aboriginal children (0-5 years), school age children (6-12 years), youth (12-18 years), families and kin to achieve positive outcomes in community safety, education, and wellbeing.

The Service Connector position is part of a dynamic team working with Town Camps that uses client-centred, community-led approaches to respond to client identified needs by facilitating links and referrals to a broad range of internal and external programs and service providers.

The Service Connector role is a new role as part of the Child Family Centre (CFC) initiative. The CFC Program will support the delivery of services to children, young people, and families to assist them to navigate local service system to make sure their needs are met. The Centres will assist families to access a range of support services and programs designed to strengthen family and community capacity in achieving outcomes in overall wellbeing, equity of opportunity and improved outcomes.

The objectives of the Child Family Centres are:

To assist and support local families experiencing risk of vulnerability to address their needs.
To strengthen community leadership and capacity to support families to raise children, and
To put in place strong, sustainable, and accountable systems for improving child and family wellbeing.

Tangentyere’s CFC model locates 5 specialist family and service connection staff in hubs at existing Community Centres in a ‘Hub and Spoke Model”. The ‘hub” is Tangentyere’s Community Centre Division, and the spokes are the Community Centres located at Hidden Valley, Larapinta Valley, Trucking Yards, Walripiri/Charles Creek, and Karnte/Little Sisters Town Camps. This model ensures staff are supported to work in teams that can rapidly respond to individual and community needs, and link families to support services by helping them navigate the local service system.

This role will work in close collaboration with and under the guidance of the Community Centre Coordinator.

The successful candidate will be a highly motivated individual with excellent communication skills who is committed to working with vulnerable families and children. Additionally, they will engage with stakeholders and community members to promote the program, ensuring it is culturally safe, accepted by and responsive to individuals, families, and communities across the Alice Springs region.

Closing date: 30/10/2024
A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

Please see for How to Apply and application requirements.