ABOUT NAAFLS

NAAFLS is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (ACCO) and independent Family Violence Prevention Legal Service (FVPLS).

We are the only victim-based Aboriginal legal service in remote communities in the Top End region of the NT.

We have offices in Darwin (Larrakia land), Katherine (Jawoyn, Dagoman and Wardaman land) and Nhulunbuy (Yolŋu land), and service over 40 remote communities within the Top End region spanning from the Tiwi Islands down to Lajamanu, Wadeye and across to Borroloola. We provide culturally sensitive legal advice, assistance, representation, and support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Top End communities who have experienced domestic, family, and sexual violence.

We offer the unique opportunity to work collaboratively alongside client support officers and case workers, which are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identified roles, to ensure that our service is culturally safe and holistic.

This holistic and culturally appropriate model of service sets us apart; seeking practical community-based solutions to the most complex legal problems.

Our primary practice areas are family law, child protection, and domestic violence; though we frequently intervene in coronial inquiries, parliamentary inquiries, and other administrative or criminal proceedings as required.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Northern Territory Indigenous Family Legal Support Service (NTIFLSS) is a new program being designed by the North Australian Aboriginal Family Legal Service (NAAFLS) through funding received from the Paul Ramsay Just Futures grant.

The NTIFLSS will be a specialist program for Indigenous families involved (or at risk of involvement) with child protection that provides families with culturally appropriate, early and preventative legal advice, advocacy and support.

The NTIFLSS will work with the whole family to support them to understand and respond to the child protection concerns held by the Department of Children Families (DCF).

The NTIFLSS will facilitate Aboriginal Family-Led Decision-Making (AFLDM) processes to support families to make informed decisions that are in the best interests of their children.

The goal of AFLDM is to provide a culturally safe space that empowers families to develop plans that promote children’s safety, wellbeing and connection to family, community, culture and country.

The NTIFLSS Program Solicitor will work in partnership with the Aboriginal family-led decision-making co-convenor (AFLDM) to support families to resolve child protection concerns outside of court processes.

You will possess a current ‘C’ Class driver's licence and be eligible to obtain a clear Police Check and Working with Children Clearance should you be successful in being appointed in this role.

A position description is attached.

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.