When you are truly passionate about your work and have a sound understanding of the role and the space that you work in - you never work a day in your life. It becomes second nature, helping, supporti...

The challenges

Nothing is ever smooth sailing when you are working in a family support role, some of the hardest challenges to consider are set backs due to a number of socioeconomic issues/ underlying issues includ...

May 2021

I love my job because I find it very rewarding when I’m with the children and I see them happy and the smiles returning to their faces and I’m just so grateful to be able to offer them some kind of normal.

Reviewer's Qualification

Diploma of Children's Services

Experience

10+ years

Organisation size

Large (200+ employees)

Specialisation

Child protection

The good things

It’s rewarding when I see the smiles return too the children’s faces.

The challenges

Challenges can be the politics within organisations and also the bullying that is allowed to occur.

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I love my job because I find it very rewarding when I’m with the children and I see them happy and the smiles returning to their faces and I’m just so grateful to be able to offer them some kind of normal.

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