• Join a respected, high quality and experienced service organisation
• Learning and development opportunities
• Part-time, permanent, 3 days per week at Boronia - hybrid working arrangements

About us

Relationships Australia Victoria (RAV) is a community-based, not-for-profit organisation with no religious affiliations. Our vision is for positive, respectful, safe and fulfilling relationships for all Australians. For more than 75 years, we have been delivering high quality family and relationship support services, and we now support more than 20,000 clients every year. We have over 400 dedicated employees working from 21 centres across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria.

About the role

Reporting to the Centre Manager, you will play a vital role in RAV's Family Safety Model, providing a service access point for men, women, and children experiencing family and domestic violence. You will ensure a coordinated practice by facilitating warm referrals to RAV supports and appointing a key worker for families needing multiple interventions. Your responsibilities will include conducting telephone psycho-social assessments and acting as an information and referral source, ensuring the safety and well-being of partners, former partners, family members, and children of men in the Men’s Behaviour Change Program (MBCP). Additionally, you will provide group work programs for family members affected by family violence, with an emphasis on parenting and parent-child relationships.

This role is located at our Boronia Centre and is part-time, permanent, working three (3) days per week. The base salary range is $ 95k-$ 102k (pro-rata) per annum.

About you

• Degree qualified in social work, counselling, or psychology or a related social science discipline.
• Completion of Multi Agency Risk Assessment and Risk Management (MARAM) Framework training.
• Significant group facilitation skills and experience working with parents and children affected by family violence.
• Significant experience in undertaking whole of family psychosocial assessments and safety plans.
• Knowledge of the processes of Men’s Behaviour Change group work.

We provide

• Competitive salary packaging as RAV is a public benevolent institution
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements.
• Generous leave entitlements, and gratis days over the Christmas/New Year period.
• Professional development and training.
• Best practice clinical supervision.
• Career progression opportunities.

Candidates can view the position description attached also at www.rav.org.au/careers, contact Tracy Hansen-Eales, Centre Manager Outer East Metro by phoning 0400 889 790 for specific queries. Candidates will be required to provide evidence of two COVID-19 vaccinations. 

All candidates must complete the Minimum Qualifications Self-Assessment form and attach this with their application.

RAV is committed to developing an inclusive and diverse workforce. We encourage applications from First Nations peoples, people from under-represented culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, asexual (LGBTIQA+) communities, and people living with disability. We are committed to the safety of our clients and staff and promote a child-safe work environment. We recognise the lifelong impacts of childhood trauma and recognise those who had children taken away from them.