Senior Case Manager, Foster Care

As our Senior Case Manager, you will build strong relationships, coordinate care planning, support foster care placements, and maintain quality documentation to ensure children, young people and carers receive the right support at the right time.

• Full-time, Fixed Term (12 month) role
• Mt Helen Office, Wadawurrung Country
• $110k pa + Super & Salary Packaging (pro rata)

The Opportunity

The program provides complex, intensive and general Home Based Care for children and young people who are unable to live with their own families. Most children and young people are placed in out of home care following child protection intervention. A small number are in care on a voluntary basis, voluntary and statutory placements can be of a short or long term nature.

As a Senior Case Manager, you will provide high‑quality statutory case management on behalf of the DFFH for children and young people living in foster care. You will also play a key role in supporting foster and kinship carers, contributing to placement stability, and strengthening practice across the program.

About You

You are a compassionate and capable senior practitioner who can balance accountability with empathy. You thrive in a fast‑paced environment and are confident working with complexity and ambiguity.

You will bring:

• Experience in case management, foster care, child and family services, youth work or a related field
• Strong understanding of trauma-informed practice, child safety and out-of-home care
• Ability to build positive relationships with children, young people, carers and key stakeholders
• Strong advocacy, communication and documentation skills
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a complex service environment
• A bachelor’s degree qualification in Social Work, Youth Work, Welfare, Community Services, or a related discipline; or a Diploma qualification with 3+ years’ relevant experience.

What You’ll Receive

• Salary packaging up to $15,900 plus meals and entertainment benefits
• Ongoing professional development and reflective supervision
• Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing supports
• A supportive, trauma-informed team environment
• The opportunity to make a meaningful difference for children, young people and carers

Please refer to Job description for further details.

How to Apply

Please submit your resume and cover letter by 11pm, Thursday 4 June 2026.

For more information, please contact: Susie Meadows, Team Leader Foster Care smeadows@berrystreet.org.au or 0427 044 114

Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, National Police Check (International Police check required) and Victorian Carer Register clearance if applicable.

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.