Young Fathers Support Practitioner

📍 Based at Kedron | Supporting young families across North Brisbane and Moreton Bay

Are you passionate about supporting young fathers to build confidence, strengthen family relationships, and create positive futures for their children?

Encircle Community Services is seeking a dedicated and engaging Young Fathers Support Practitioner to join our Young Parents Program on a full-time, 6-month contract.

This is a unique opportunity to work directly with young and expectant fathers, helping them navigate the challenges and opportunities of pregnancy, parenting, relationships, and family life. You'll play a key role in supporting young dads to build skills, resilience, confidence, and meaningful connections with their children and support networks.

• Attractive salary packaging benefits

• Supportive and passionate multidisciplinary team

• Meaningful work that creates lasting community impact

• Professional development opportunities

Encircle Community Services has been supporting individuals, children and families across North Brisbane and the Moreton Bay region since 1987. As a community-owned and operated organisation, we are committed to strengthening wellbeing, increasing social connection, and supporting people to overcome challenges and achieve their goals.

Working within our Young Parents Program, you will provide strengths-based and trauma-informed support to young fathers and expectant dads who may be experiencing a range of challenges, including social isolation, financial stress, family relationship issues, housing instability, mental health concerns, or limited support networks.

You will build positive relationships with young dads, support their engagement in services, assist them to develop parenting knowledge and skills, connect them with community supports, and facilitate opportunities for participation and peer connection.

This role includes a combination of:

• Individual support and case management

• Outreach support in the community

• Parenting education and skill development

• Advocacy and referral

• Facilitating and co-facilitating groups and activities for young fathers

• Supporting positive father-child attachment and family wellbeing

We're looking for someone who is:

• Passionate about supporting young fathers and families

• Skilled at building rapport and engaging hard-to-reach clients

• Strengths-focused and solution-oriented

• A confident communicator and advocate

• Able to work independently while contributing to a collaborative team environment

• A qualification in Social Work, Human Services, Psychology, Social Science or a related field.

• Experience working with young people, families or vulnerable communities.

• Experience providing case management or family support services.

• Knowledge of strengths-based and trauma-informed practice.

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

• An understanding of child development, parenting supports and family wellbeing.

• Experience facilitating groups or community-based activities is highly regarded.

• Commitment to working respectfully with First Nations peoples and culturally diverse communities.

• Current Queensland Driver Licence.

• Current Blue Card.

• National Police Check.

• Current First Aid and CPR certification, or willingness to obtain.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a genuine difference in the lives of young fathers, their children and families.

If you're passionate about strengthening families and helping young dads succeed in their parenting journey, we'd love to hear from you.

Submit your current resume and a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role.

Encircle Community Services is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disability, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.