Danielle Kaitlyn Bamford
Teesdale,VIC
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Glastonbury Community Services
06.2013 - 08.2014
- Providing day to day care to young people in out of home care based on a therapeutic model of care
- Managing risks, behaviors, and safety planning for the young people
- Liaising with key stakeholders and care team members that are supporting the young person such as child protection, High Risk Youth unit (police), youth justice, family therapy, teachers and family to provide good outcomes for our young people
Early intervention youth homelessness case manager
Barwon Child Youth and Family Services
Geelong, Victoria
08.2014 - 11.2015
- Minimize family conflict and youth homelessness providing innovative youth and family friendly responses to young people who are at risk and vulnerable
- To work with young people aged 10-25 years of age and their families and provide accommodation (crisis) support in lead tenant, transitional housing, or emergency accommodation
- Outreach to provide and implement services and support in schools
- Youth centered and family focused approach creating safety plans for young people and families
- Working therapeutically in crisis accommodation for young people at city limits refuge
Residential Carer
Mackillop Family Services
Geelong, Victoria
05.2018 - Current
- Providing daily care to children and young people who have been placed in out of home care with child protection support, case planning and case managers
- Understanding trauma and attachment and the impact it has on families and young people to provide the best care
- Daily documentation of case notes on family journey platform on each young person, keeping up to date with all compliance and completing incident reports for incidents that are related to the young person
- Record keeping in the homes by updating the tasks and duties book in the home
- Following each young person’s behavioral support plan and safety plan to best support each young person to aim for a positive outcome
- Reporting incidents and daily updates or essential information to case management team about all young people
- Teaching young people skills such as cooking, cleaning, and budgeting, completing housing and centrelink applications and preparing young people for independent living
Cluster support worker
MacKillop Family Services
Geelong, Victoria
06.2022 - 11.2022
- Working in the cluster program for Mackillop Family Services providing outreach services to young people who have transitioned into independent living providing support work
- Taking a young person shopping, to appointments, aiding with budgeting, transportation
- Reporting to the case management team
TCP case manager
MacKillop Family Services
Geelong, Victoria
06.2022 - 11.2022
- Worked in the Targeted care packages program and completing case management for youth, families, and children
- These roles required case management duties, managing young people, foster carers and families by managing their funding package to prevent the client from entering residential care
- Case management requirements, managing targeted care packages funding, implementing support workers to provide 1:1 support for the young person
Home-based care case manager
MacKillop Family Services
Geelong, Victoria
11.2022 - 03.2023
- Managing home based care placements by providing case management to various young people aged between 8-16 years of age in foster care placements
- Finding young people placements with foster carers by using a matching tool
- Providing monthly supervision, performance appraisals and emotional support to all foster carers
- Updating compliance for each young person in foster care
- Working alongside child protection and completing case management requirements
Timeline
Home-based care case manager
MacKillop Family Services
11.2022 - 03.2023
Cluster support worker
MacKillop Family Services
06.2022 - 11.2022
TCP case manager
MacKillop Family Services
06.2022 - 11.2022
Residential Carer
Mackillop Family Services
05.2018 - Current
Early intervention youth homelessness case manager
Barwon Child Youth and Family Services
08.2014 - 11.2015
Glastonbury Community Services
06.2013 - 08.2014
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