Family Practitioner
The KWY Family Practitioner is an experienced clinician responsible for delivering culturally responsive, trauma-informed interventions to Aboriginal children, young people, and their families. The Practitioner contributes to service quality, safety, and the effective distribution of supports that respond to community needs.
The Practitioner conducts comprehensive risk assessments, implements safety planning, and provides intensive and complex case management, advocacy, and therapeutic intervention. Engagement occurs across multiple settings, including phone contact, home visits, and community-based environments, often within a multidisciplinary team working with adults and adolescents.
The successful applicant will demonstrate strong clinical skills, relevant experience, and sound child protection knowledge, including working with Aboriginal families experiencing domestic and family violence and child protection concerns. The Practitioner will work collaboratively with the Department for Child Protection (DCP) and other statutory and non-statutory partners to support coordinated and safe outcomes.
Operating within a strengths-based, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed framework, the Practitioner delivers family-focused interventions aimed at reducing the number of Aboriginal children entering out-of-home care. This includes providing individualised therapeutic support, facilitating access to services and community resources, and advocating for adults—and where relevant, adolescents—to enhance family safety, wellbeing, and parenting capacity.
Senior Project Officer
The Senior Project Officer is a key role within KWY, responsible for coordinating and delivering a range of strategic and operational projects across the organisation. This includes leading tender and grant writing processes, contributing to program design and implementation, and supporting quality, system and process development to strengthen KWY’s service delivery and impact.
The Senior Project Officer works collaboratively within a high-performing team that drives innovation, growth, and quality improvement across KWY. The role requires strong administrative, strategic, and technical capabilities to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and in alignment with KWY’s
Program Coordinator - Young Aboriginal Families in North (YAFIN)
A specialised early support service for young, first-time parents of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children living in Northern suburbs of Adelaide. The service aims to prevent the removal of Aboriginal infants and provides support for families from pre-birth to their child becoming two years of age.
The service will be required to work well with families who are facing multiple complex challenges, and who without intensive support are likely to find it very hard to keep their family and baby safe and well. It is to provide a direct service to families, and work with them to connect with other services, as well as to community support and culture.
KWY will lead a Collaborative Service Design process to bring together knowledge and experience of community and other stakeholders across government and non-government sectors to develop and refine the Young Aboriginal Families in the North (YAFIN) program. The service model stages and components will be further developed by the KWY in partnership with Department for Human Services during the Collaborative Service Design Phase. After service design, you will support with implementation of program for service delivery.
Expression of Interest
We’re always looking for talented people to join our dynamic and multicultural team.
If you're interested in joining KWY, please check our open Expression of Interest advertisement on Swag. We invite you to apply with a cover letter and resume detailing the roles you're interested in.
If a vacancy arises that matches your skills and experiences, a member of the KWY team will contact you directly to gain additional information.