About the role:
- Full-time position to June 2027, located in Coffs Harbour NSW
- Base annual rate of $103,239 to $109,431 negotiable
- 12% super plus access to generous NFP salary packaging options
About the opportunity:
Every child deserves to feel safe. Every family deserves the opportunity to heal.
At Uniting, we're looking for an experienced MST-CAN Therapeutic Caseworker who is passionate about walking alongside families during some of the most challenging periods of their lives. Using the internationally recognised Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) model, you'll help families create safer homes, strengthen relationships, and build brighter futures for children aged 6–17 years.
This is more than a casework role. It's an opportunity to be part of a highly skilled therapeutic team delivering evidence-based interventions that create meaningful, long-term change where it's needed most.
As an MST-CAN Therapeutic Caseworker, you'll work intensively alongside therapists and families in their homes and communities to address the complex factors contributing to child abuse and neglect.
Working closely with families, schools, child protection agencies and community services, you'll support practical and therapeutic interventions that improve family functioning, strengthen parenting capacity and keep children safely at home wherever possible.
No two days will be the same. You'll combine therapeutic practice with practical support, crisis response, advocacy and collaboration, helping families overcome barriers and build lasting resilience.
What you’ll be doing:
- Deliver evidence-based MST-CAN interventions alongside a multidisciplinary therapeutic team.
- Build strong, trusting relationships with families experiencing complex challenges.
- Support families in developing safety plans and achieving meaningful treatment goals.
- Work collaboratively with therapists, DCJ, schools and community organisations.
- Assist families to access housing, education, employment and other essential supports.
- Respond confidently during periods of crisis and provide on-call support when required.
- Advocate for children and families while maintaining high-quality documentation and therapeutic practice.
- Deliver culturally safe and inclusive support for Aboriginal families and families from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
Your Qualifications & Experience
- A Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Social Work, Childhood Education or a related discipline.
- At least three years' experience working therapeutically with children and families.
- Experience working within child protection and community-based services.
- Strong understanding of behavioural interventions and family-centred therapeutic practice.
- Confidence managing risk, safety planning and responding to crises.
- Excellent relationship-building, communication and documentation skills.
- A current NSW Driver Licence & a current NSW WWCC
- Flexibility to participate in an on-call roster and work outside standard business hours when required.
Experience supporting Aboriginal families and culturally diverse communities will be highly regarded.
Benefits and culture
Working to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice brings its own rewards, but there’s more.
- Welcoming you exactly as you are
- Access to generous NFP salary packaging options
- Wellbeing programs as well as access to Uniting’s URewards retail partner program.
- Career development opportunities such as training, education.
- Amazing workplace culture
Please contact Belinda Condon from Uniting’s Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or enquiries – [email protected]
To apply: Please complete the online application form and include a current resume and cover letter addressing the qualifications and experience for this position.
Applications close: 11:55pm Sunday 12th July 2026
Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks, which include National Police Checks, Working with Children Checks and Reference Checks.
Empowered by diversity:
At Uniting, inclusion isn’t just something we value – it’s how we work. Our culture and practice reflect the vibrant diversity of our colleagues, and the clients and communities we serve.
Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.
About Uniting:
When you’re part of Uniting NSW.ACT, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who are really making a difference to the world around them.
We contribute to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people through all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.
Uniting leaders and employees work together to create a culture that is safe, inclusive and person-centred. We bring this to life every day through our values: compassionate, respectful, imaginative and bold.
Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to all Elders – past, present, and emerging – and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work.
