• Full-time, contract until 30 June 2025
• Located in Southern Melbourne area
• Professional development and career advancement opportunities
• Inclusive and diverse team environment
• wayss encourages creativity and innovative thinking
• Opportunity to work from home up to 2 days per week
• Salary range $106,387 to $111,090 (SCHADS Level 6)
• Generous salary packaging benefits up to $15,900 per annum
• Five weeks annual leave

Working for wayss

Our people matter. Without them, we would be unable to make a meaningful impact in the lives of people facing homelessness and family violence. This is our motivation in creating wayss as a great place to work.

wayss is the largest provider of family violence, homelessness, housing and services in the South East Melbourne area. We exist so people can live a life free from family violence and have access to safe, sustainable, and affordable housing.

We deliver funded services and programs across the Southern Melbourne Area including the local government areas of Greater Dandenong, Frankston, Casey and Cardinia.

wayss Family Violence programs deliver a range of services in response to women and children experiencing or escaping family violence.

They include:

• Family Violence Refuge
• Rapid Response, including after-hours support
• Case Management
• RAMP
• Personal Safety Initiative
• Family Violence Housing Pathways
• Therapeutic children’s work
• Family Advocacy and Support Services (FASS), based at Family Court
• Family Violence/Child Protection Partnership
• The Orange Door, Southern Melbourne area

About the role

This program supports and advocates for victim survivors of family violence to manage their risk and safety whilst enabling them to build skills to achieve their goals, live their life independently and free from violence.

Reporting to the Team Leader, Family Violence Response and Recovery (ICR), the Senior Specialist Family Violence Practitioner provides Intake and Crisis Managed support to people who are experiencing or recovering from family violence.

Duties include:

• Support in building team members capacity
• Under the direction of the Team Leader supporting with responding to referrals and enquiries received into wayss Family Violence Response and Recovery Services.
• Provide Support to High-Risk cases including but not limited to participating in wayss internal Family Violence Complex Case Panel
• Provide an intake and crisis response to clients including, assessing the client’s immediate situation safety, risk and support needs using the MARAM Risk Assessment tool
• Engaging in safety planning with clients
• Undertaking short term Brief intervention support and case management.
• Referring clients to appropriate support agencies and organisations.
• Assessing the clients housing and social support needs.
• Providing advocacy
• Working in collaboration with external agencies to promote the most appropriate support for the client and their children
• Participating in training and development, supervision, wellbeing and health and safety in accordance with wayss policies and procedures
• Taking part in the after hours on call roster.
• Other reasonable duties as requested.

About you

You will have:

• Relevant tertiary qualification(s) in social work or related discipline. (Compliant with Family Violence Minimum Qualifications (Rec 209) or a willingness to work towards gaining those qualifications.
• Experience working in the family violence sector, specifically intake and or crisis response is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated experience and capability in:
  • Responding to requests for services.
  • Family Violence risk assessment.
  • Safety planning.
  • Case management.
  • Providing advocacy and support.
• Ability to work autonomously and under limited direction.
• Proven aptitude to relate positively and confidently with people from diverse backgrounds, in a variety of settings.
• Highly developed interpersonal and problem-solving skills to effectively respond to people in crisis.
• Resilience to work with and support clients who have been exposed to trauma.
• The ability to work collaboratively and build strong, authentic and supportive working relationships.
• Commitment to best practice and work towards the best possible outcomes.
• Computer skills, including a working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

This role requires a current Driver’s Licence and valid ‘Employment’ category - Working with Children Check. The candidate will need to have successfully completed wayss pre-employment screening, including a police and identity check.

Applications

Applications may close sooner than the advertised closing date if a successful candidate is selected.

Please ensure you include a covering letter, outlining your experience in relation to the "About You" section in the advertisement. Enquiries about the position can be directed to Jenna Rees, Acting Manager, Family Violence Recovery and Response Program on 0421 432 340.

wayss is proud to be an inclusive and child safe organisation.

wayss is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to being an organisation that embraces a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion within our workforce and approach to service delivery. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic communities, people of all ages and LGBTIQ people. wayss is a proud Rainbow Tick accredited organisation that welcomes everyone across the LGBTIQ community.