| Position | Coordinator - Permanency Support Program 9 Mid-North Coast) |
| Posted | 06 Jun 2026 |
| Expired | 06 Jul 2026 |
| Company | Uniting |
| Location | Port Macquarie | AU |
| Job Type | Full Time |
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About the role
This is a permanent full-time (35 hours/week) opportunity that can be based at the Coffs Harbour or Port Macquarie PSP programs
- some flexible working arrangements
- travel required across both Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie
We are seeking a dedicated and confident leader to join our Permanency Support Program as Coordinator. This role is responsible for leading and supervising a team of Caseworkers and support staff, ensuring safe, high-quality, and culturally responsive services for children, young people, and families.
A key focus of this role is coaching and mentoring staff around risk and safety, strengthening decision-making, and ensuring compliance with PSP policy and procedures. You will provide direct supervision and oversight of outcomes for caseworkers, attend home visits, lead team meetings, and represent Uniting at inter-agency forums — working in close collaboration with the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ).
In this role, you will ensure the PSP Caseworker teams are delivering a contemporary, permanency and restoration-focused Practice Framework that is grounded in relational practice and aligned with the HOPE model, recognising the importance of connection, trust, and consistent, therapeutic responses for children and young people. Practice will be trauma-informed, culturally competent, and responsive to individual needs, with a strong focus on building meaningful relationships, maintaining stability, and supporting healing through safe, nurturing and strengths-based care.
About you
Benefits and culture
Working to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice brings its own rewards, but there’s more:
To be considered for this position you must apply online and attach a copy of your updated resume and cover letter addressing the 2x Targeted Questions below (2 A4 pages max)
TQ1: Please outline your experience leading teams across multiple sites. In your response, describe how you have ensured consistent quality of service delivery, compliance with organisational and legislative requirements, and the implementation of best practice approaches.
TQ2: Please describe your knowledge and experience in managing risk and safety for children and young people within a child protection context. In your response, include how you identify, assess, and respond to risk, and how you ensure safe, trauma-informed practice.
For questions, please contact Alex Sullivan from Uniting’s Talent Acquisition Team at /
Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks, including a National Police Check, Working with Children Check, and Reference Checks.
Closing date: 11:55pm Monday 8th June 2026
About Uniting
When you’re part of Uniting NSW.ACT, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people making a real difference in 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. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.
Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work.
Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.
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