About the role:

• Join a multi-disciplinary team supporting women and children who have experienced family violence
• Permanent, full time (1FTE)
• SCHADS Level 6 - $102,554.40 pro rate plus super and salary packaging
• Brimbank / Melton location (Sunshine & Keilor Downs)

The Specialist Family Violence Practitioner will work within the Brimbank Melton (IFS) team and the Family Service Alliance to support families where there have been incidents of family violence to make appropriate plans around safety and develop parents’ capacity to meet their children’s needs in line with the Children’s Youth and Families Act 2005. The role will mentor Family Services caseworkers to ensure they have the skills needed for high quality support to families who experience, at risk of or have experienced family violence.

As part of the Family Services Response to Family Violence project across the Brimbank Melton Alliance, the role will also provide secondary consultation supporting workers responding to family violence in addition to planning and facilitating education and training sessions to enhance knowledge and practice by building capacity.

Key Responsibilities:

• To provide secondary consultations and guidance to experienced case managers for families where there is family violence risk across Brimbank Melton.
• To carry a case load of up to six families who need supports and planning
• To undertake comprehensive MARAM assessments and share information as required to ensure women and children’s safety and planning and support.
• Take a lead role and attendance at Family Violence & Family Services working group meetings
• To facilitate education and training sessions across the Family Services Alliance
• Collaborate with partner agencies to enrich learning and strengthen practice across the Alliance

About You:

• A degree level qualification in Social Work, Psychology, or a related discipline is essential as well as significant experience in direct family violence case management
• Relevant experience working from a competency/strengths-based solution focused framework in the family violence sector and experience working with families presenting with complex needs and behaviour’s (e.g. substance abuse, mental health, parenting issues, disability, relationship issues) and/or from CALD or indigenous backgrounds is highly desirable
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of working within the Best Interest Principles, MARAM framework and information sharing schemes
• Demonstrated commitment to social justice and social inclusion principles.
• Can obtain a satisfactory Police Check
• Holds a current Working with Children’s Check (WWCC)
• Holds a current Drivers License

Minimum Mandatory Qualifications Requirements

The minimum mandatory qualifications requirements are in place in Victoria and have been since the 1st of July 2021 are available at here.

Please contact us on [email protected], using the subject line: Specialist Family Violence Practitioner - Family Services enquiry via EthicalJobs, if you have any questions about these requirements.

About Us:

Our strategy outlines the world we want to see and our role advancing in it. It also speaks to the positive impact we will deliver to support women, girls and families to be safe, secure, strong and connected. We are committed to tackling the issues of our time which adversely affect them. We work to advance equity and social justice and support our communities to thrive.

We seek to increase economic participation and wellbeing, to build resilience, improve safety and bring about system change. We offer microfinance programs and products, financial counselling and coaching, family violence support, parenting programs and playgroups, education programs and community houses. These services are complemented by research and advocacy to address the underlying structural causes of injustice, exclusion, and inequality.

To find out more about the role and to review the position description please explore our website: goodshep.org.au.

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
• Additional purchased annual leave
• Flexible work hours/working from home where possible
• Long service leave due after 10 years, with access after seven
• Employee Assistance Program, a free and confidential counselling service

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A position description is attached.