Job Summary
- Base salary $124K, plus super and salary packaging
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 24th Jul 2024
- Melbourne > Heidelberg
"We have led the sector with our work, influenced the Royal Commission and have continued to drive change and reform in our sector so that we can keep victim survivors safe and hold perpetrators accountable."
Our Northern Specialist Family Violence Service (NSFVS) are the lead provider for the integrated family violence service system in the Northern Metropolitan sub-region. The team work from a intersectional-feminist lens, with a focus on providing victim survivors and their children support to live a life free of family violence.
The Orange Door was established as a result of the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Family Violence and provide specialist support and tailored advice for victim survivors, families and children, and perpetrators. The advice provided is based off contemporary risk assessment tools and guidance.
The goals of The Orange Door are to be a more visible and accessible contact point for service users requiring specialist support. Victim Survivors and their children are at the heart of everything our practitioners do and our goal is to provide them the best support possible.
The primary focus of this role is to provide specialist family violence expertise that drives an integrated response by supporting practitioners working with victim survivors of family violence and their children. This role forms part of the practice leadership group comprising a second Advanced Family Violence Practice Leader, Integrated Practice Leader, Child & Young Persons Practice Leader, an Aboriginal Practice Leader and a Men’s Family Violence Practice Lead.
The Advanced Family Violence Practice Leader will work as part of a team working collaboratively to improve capability, integrated practice and provide specialist knowledge.
For more information on minimum qualification requirements, please follow this link: https://www.vic.gov.au/mandatory-minimum-qualifications-specialist-family-violence-practitioners
Join our team! We are one of the largest independent agencies within Australia, providing over 40,000 diverse programs to young people, children and families across Victoria each year. We pride ourselves on our ingenuity, evidence based and multi-dimensional thinking to provide the best outcomes for our young people! We believe children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful and strive to make this happen each day!
Applications including resume and cover letter addressing the key selection criteria for the position to be submitted via the "Apply Now" button.
Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and National Police Check.
Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply.
A position description is attached.
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