• Casual hours
• Based in Bayside Peninsula
• SCHADS Level 6, $108,515.60 (plus super and salary packaging)

Role Purpose

The Senior Specialist Family Violence Practitioner –After Hours is an integral member of the family violence team. This role will work in our After-Hours program delivering high quality face to face and over the phone support to women and children who are experiencing family violence across the Bayside Peninsula Region.

Key Responsibilities

• Assessing afterhours referral from different sources and providing a family violence response
• Provide a specialist family violence response afterhours to victim survivors both adults and children
• Assessing the immediate situation, safety risk and support needs of women and accompanying children using the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework (MARAM)
• Complete safety planning and liaise with other services and stakeholders to increase safety of victim survivors including adults and children experiencing family violence

About you

• Appropriate tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, or a related tertiary discipline is essential
• Demonstrated experience using MARAM to assess risk, needs and protective factors of women and children, safety planning and determining appropriate referral pathways
• Demonstrate eligibility to work within the family violence sector under Recommendation 209 (See details below)
• Demonstrated ability to apply a trauma-informed framework to the various presentations of women and children

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 :

All candidates wishing to apply for this role must be able to demonstrate that they:

1. are considered EXEMPT under the policy

OR

1. hold a Bachelor of Social Work or other equivalent qualification

OR

1. have minimum 5 years relevant professional experience, OR a related qualification as per the mandatory minimum qualification requirements.

OR

1. hold significant cultural knowledge and experience or lived experience, and have faced barriers to educational pathways

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 Bayprograms, 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' 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.

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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.