• Maximum Term Contract until May 2025, Full Time (1 FTE)
• Bayside Peninsula
• SCHADS Level 8, $127,340.55 (plus super and salary packaging)

Role Purpose

The Advanced Family Violence Practice Leader is a position auspiced by Good Shepherd and embedded within The Orange Door (Support and Safety Hub) in Bayside Peninsula.  This role provides practice leadership to The Orange Door team, which consists of staff employed by Family Safety Victoria, community service organisations, Aboriginal services and DFFH.

The Advanced Family Violence Practice Leader will work in close partnership with The Orange Door Leadership, within a matrix model of management, to lead family violence practice and provide secondary consultation with internal and external service providers.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing specialist secondary case consultation and technical input on complex family violence cases and perpetrator interventions
• Providing specialist family violence expertise to the process of intake and assessment of responses to children’s safety and wellbeing
• Co-working and providing daily specialist family violence support (as requested and required) for Team Leaders
• Building capability to deliver specialist family violence responses to victim survivors, children and families and perpetrators, informed by client experience and in line with the Integrated Practice Framework and relevant legislative frameworks, including the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 and Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005
• Liaising with and providing specialist or secondary consultation to organisations and services within the Hub network in order to discuss direct service issues and ensure ongoing safety of victim survivors.

About you

•  Professional clinical experience and relevant qualification(s) in social work, welfare, psychology or a related discipline is essential.
• A strong knowledge and understanding of the drivers/causes of family violence and child and family vulnerability, as well as the child and family services and/or broader social services sector and their fundamental practices and theories is required.
• Demonstrated experience in leading family violence practice within complex service delivery contexts, particularly multi-disciplinary and multi-agency approaches to the provision of services to vulnerable children, families and diverse communities is required.
• Demonstrated experience in the leadership of staff, who provide family violence support to women and children.
• Sound knowledge of the MARAM Framework and Information sharing (FVISS/CISS) schemes and experience In embedding these as practice across a diverse workforce
• Family Violence Minimum Mandatory Qualifications under Recommendation 209. As per the minimum mandatory qualifications requirements via https://www.vic.gov.au/mandatory-minimum-qualifications-specialist-family-violence-practitioners

Please note that candidates wishing to enter the specialist family violence workforce via a related qualification or 5 years related professional experience pathway, OR the significant cultural knowledge and experience or lived experience pathways will be required to work towards an equivalent qualification within specified time-frames (as per the mandatory minimum qualifications policy).

About Us

Our 2023-2027 strategy outlines the world we want to see and our role in advancing it. We aspire for all women, girls, and families to be safe, well, strong, and connected. We strive for equity, dignity and social justice for women, girls and families by collaborating globally and acting locally, supporting our communities in Australia and New Zealand to thrive.

We want women, girls and families to live full and dignified lives, have dignified income and enjoy financial wellbeing.  We aim to provide place-based, people-centred, holistic services while working at the system level to achieve bold and audacious reform. We currently offer microfinance programs and products, financial counselling and coaching, family and domestic violence support services, family and youth programs, playgroups, education programs and community houses. These services are complemented by research and strong advocacy to address the underlying structural causes of injustice, exclusion, and inequality. 

Good Shepherd employees are committed to inclusive practice that responds to the specific needs, context, and circumstances of service participants. We embrace the diversity and intersectionality of individuals and recognise a person’s right to a unique identity comprising culture, language, ability, community, gender, sex, sexual orientation and lived experience.

Benefits

• Salary packaging (which can add up to $15,900 in tax-free pay per year)
• Paid study leave
• Paid parental leave
• Gifted leave at Christmas and
• Easter Employee Assistance Program, a free and confidential counselling service
• + more

 How to apply

Please click Apply Now to complete your application. Please upload your resume and a brief cover letter addressing the key selection criteria.

Please apply as soon as possible, applications are considered as they are received.

A position description is attached.

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We recognise the rich diversity of people across Australia. We are committed to ensuring that our team is reflective of the diverse community we serve and to supporting a culture of equity, inclusion and diversity.

Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand is a Child Safe employer. Employment is subject to satisfactory referee checks, a current employment working with Children Check, National Criminal History check and proof of the right to work in Australia.