About Relationships Australia

Relationships Australia NSW (RANSW) provides a safe, judgement-free environment where individuals, couples and families can address the critical matters impacting their relationships, and their lives.

What you'll do

As an experienced mediator and Senior Family Relationship Centre (FRC) Practitioner, you will lead and supervise our frontline team while offering crucial support to the team leader and centre manager. Your role will be situated between the Team leader and the frontline practice staff, and you’ll be expected to:

• Lead as a Mediator: Deliver exceptional services to families experiencing post-separation conflict, assisting them in reaching agreements on parenting arrangements and resolving financial and property-related issues
• Facilitate Clinical Supervision: Conduct clinical supervision and competency assessments for nominated supervisees, ensuring the highest standards of practice
• Support Program Effectiveness: Work closely with the Team Leader to enhance the effectiveness and continual improvement of the FRC program
• Provide Leadership and Direction: Assist the team with various inquiries, offering guidance and leadership as needed to ensure smooth operations and exceptional service delivery

The details:

• Permanent part-time or full-time, 4 - 5 days a week
• Based at Macquarie Park
• Approximately $50 per hour + super, leave loading and salary packaging benefits. (Increase your take home pay! Calculate Your Savings at salary.com.au/calculate-your-savings)
• Extra annual days between Christmas and New Year
• Excellent professional development, regular clinical supervision
• Salary Benefits - You can package up to $15,900 pa of your pre-tax salary to pay for everyday expenses before income tax is calculated, meaning you take home even more pay!

What you'll bring

• Registration with the Australian Government Attorney General’s Department Register of Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners is essential
• Minimum 3 – 5 years working as a mediator, working with families in a post separation context
• Demonstrated leadership ability with clinical supervisor experience highly desirable
• Team player attitude, with the ability to motivate and empower peers and junior staff
• Demonstrated high level skills in family dispute resolution, including assessments and mediation interventions
• Demonstrated ability to work in a child focused approach in family dispute resolution
• Strong understanding of relationship dynamics, domestic and family violence, child safety, trauma informed practice, diversity awareness and mental health and wellbeing

Why work with us?

• Empower families to achieve an amicable outcome for their children and property
• Strong clinical and supervision framework to deepen our practice excellence
• Work alongside people who truly care about what you achieve. Grow with us as a team
• Great employee benefits including salary packaging, additional leave days, fitness passport and Employee Referral Program
• We value inclusion and belonging. We want a workforce that is reflective of all the communities we serve. To strengthen our inclusive practice we have employee action groups: Accessibility, Reconciliation, Gender, Sex & Sexually Diverse and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD)
• RANSW is committed to deepening our relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We have a stretch RAP to guide our efforts to build strong relationships, increased employment, and enhanced respect between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other communities

Next Steps

Interested? Apply online today as we will be interviewing shortly.

It is a condition of employment from 1 January 2022, that employees who are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccination must be fully vaccinated to perform duties at any of our workplaces. If you are not medically eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19, you must provide Relationships Australia NSW with acceptable evidence of having a health condition for which obtaining a COVID-19 vaccination is contraindicated.