Job Summary
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 9th Jun 2021
The Rural and Regional Family Violence Social Work Graduate Program provides a meaningful, challenging and rewarding graduate year for new and recent graduates.
The program will recruit over 50 new or recent graduates with social work (or similar) qualifications to work in a range of family violence roles across regional Victoria. Graduate roles include victim support, perpetrator, sexual assault and Aboriginal family violence services.
The Program will support graduates as they transition into the family violence sector through:
These positions are for 12 months, with funding available to contribute towards any moving costs.
For further information (including eligibility), please visit familyviolence.vic.gov.au/graduates.
The Orange Door provides a new way for women, children and young people experiencing family violence, and families in need of support with the care, development and wellbeing of children and young people, to access coordinated support from community, health and justice services. The Orange Door also focuses on perpetrators of family violence to keep them in view and plays a role in holding them accountable for their actions and changing their behaviour. The Orange Door team members are an integrated, collaborative team from The Sexual Assault & Family Violence Centre, Bethany Community Support, Colac Area Health and Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative.
This Graduate role is based in the Barwon Orange Door (Geelong), however you will initially commence working a combination of remotely from home and in the office due to coronavirus (COVID-19). You must have a confidential space within your home and reliable internet connection to work remotely.
As a Graduate Family Violence Practitioner, you will work within the multi-disciplinary Orange Door team and learn to deliver high quality, safe and effective service responses to Victorians seeking support and services through The Orange Door.
You will be guided through receiving and managing low risk family violence referrals for women and children to The Orange Door including client screening, assessment, crisis responses, service planning, targeted interventions, allocation and coordinated referrals consistent with the Orange Door operational and practice guidelines, relevant risk assessment tools and frameworks. This is a fast paced, brief intervention case management role with potential to progress into permanent employment.
You will be a values driven person, motivated to make a difference with a desire to hold the client at the centre of everything you do. You are passionate and knowledgeable about family violence with a Bachelor Qualification in social work or a related field.
The successful candidate will be required to maintain a current Working With Children's check and National Police Check at their own expense.
As an employee of The Sexual Assault & Family Violence Centre, you will join a leading organisation offering a comprehensive suite of services to clients and the community across the Geelong, West Melbourne and Wimmera Regions. Providing specialist sexual assault and family violence programs and services, including case management, therapeutic counselling, early intervention and professional education and training, we continue to grow and develop our offerings.
We pride ourselves on being a great place to work. You care for our clients and we care for you, including by investing in your development and wellbeing. You will have access to leading specialists and training and development that supports you in your role and in your longer term career journey. We offer a variety of career pathway options, leading salary packaging benefits and flexible working arrangements that help you manage your work and your life.
The Sexual Assault & Family Violence Centre takes pride in being an employer of choice; we are passionate about the wellbeing of our team members and we provide a number of complementary benefits to our staff, some of our benefits include:
Generous above award Enterprise Agreement entitlements
Health and Wellbeing initiatives
During COVID 19, The Sexual Assault and Family Violence is providing numerous engagement opportunities for staff to ensure they feel supported whilst working from home, These engagement opportunities include:
For a confidential discussion, please contact People and Culture on 03-5222 4318.
Please go to our website at www.safvcentre.org.au to view the relevant position description and submission requirements.