Matt Hooey Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As the Head of Practice and Impact, I hold a pivotal role in our organisation, focusing on strategic areas that directly influence the well-being of children and their families. I lead and oversee three critical teams: Continuous Practice Improvement, Systems Implementation and Safeguarding. My mission is to drive positive change, ensuring that our.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As Head of Continuous Practice Improvement, Matt has oversight of multiple strategic and non-strategic organisational initiatives that impact the way Barnardos employees work with vulnerable children, young people and their families.

Sydney, Australia

Creating and delivering workshops/professional development sessions to community workers across New South Wales.Workshop content typically specialises in leaving care/transition to adulthood (Out-of-Home Care), case management fundamentals and life story work.

Sydney, Australia

As a Senior Practitioner I lead a support team in providing a high quality of trauma informed case management for children and young people in care. Within the role I hold complex cases; managing Carer household, using strong advocacy and negotiating skills to ensure the child’s needs are met. The role covers coaching and leadership for developing staff.

Sydney, Australia

As a Learning and Development consultant, I provide research and evidence based best practice training solutions to case managers across NSW and the ACT. Within my role, I delivered face-to-face training coupled with being the lead eLearning developer, instructional designer and UX researcher.

Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia

This case management role covered Carer recruitment, case management for children and young people in care with high needs (intensive foster care category) and support of carers. Specialising in pre-adolescence, adolescence, care leavers and young offenders. I facilitated carer training, managed multiple program initiatives and development projects, and.

Sydney, Australia

Joint Support Program Caseworker- partnership with Juvenile Justice to help young people achieve their outcome plans developed with the Juvenile Justice Officer. The aim of my role was to support young offenders rehabilitating/reintegrating back society post detention or providing young offenders with opportunities and skills to prevent them from entering.

Newcastle, Australia

OOHC caseworker for adolescents exiting care. The program was called the Support Independent Living Program and was recognised to be the most success program of its type in NSW. The main duties were to prepare the young people in the program for exiting care and developing living and life skills, covering mental health, education, employment.

Bachelor Of Social Science, Social Sciences

Majoring in Child Welfare, community and society trends and disadvantages.

Therapeutic Life Story Work, Developmental And Child Psychology

Therapeutic Life Story Work enables children and young people who have experienced the trauma of child abuse and neglect and who are.

Team Coaching, Organizational Leadership

Level Two, Organizational Leadership

Level One - Organisational Coaching, Organizational Leadership

Icel Ignites (Scholarship), Organizational Leadership

Ux Design & Research

Diploma, Youth Services/Administration

Certificate Iv, Youth Work