Specialist Family Violence Practitioner
6 days ago
$99,324 to $101,461 + super & salary packaging
- SCHADS Level 5 ~ $99,324.83 to $101,461.28 plus super and salary packaging
Role Purpose
The Specialist Family Violence Practitioner is an integral member of the Family Violence Team across Bayside Peninsula and delivers high quality case management services to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) victim survivors - women and children - in an emergency accommodation facility.
The position provides client-centred casework, utilising the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework (MARAM) to support a comprehensive risk and needs assessment of victim survivors through trauma informed, systems and developmental frameworks. This role is site-based and will support women and children for up to 3 weeks within the emergency accommodation property.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver high quality brief intervention case management support to women and children from a CALD background who are experiencing family violence through trauma informed, intersectional, systems and developmental frameworks
- Ensure that service delivery addresses the unique risks, needs and the impact of trauma posed by family violence to women and children from a CALD background
- Facilitate a multi-disciplinary team approach, providing a collaborative and holistic response for CALD women and young people impacted by family violence, working toward identified goals
- Undertake MARAM risk assessment and mitigation, needs assessment, safety planning and case planning with women and children using an intersectional lens
- Coordinate referrals for support and liaise with specialist services as required
- Support victim survivors accommodated in an emergency accommodation setting
- Work in partnership with families to develop and regularly review individual case and safety plans, ensuring clients are actively engaged in all decision making and planning
About You
- Appropriate tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, or a related tertiary discipline is ESSENTIAL
- Demonstrated capacity to provide short term intensive case management including the ability to carry out comprehensive risk and needs assessments and respond appropriately
- Experience working in the family violence sector
- Experience working in a fast-paced family violence program is highly desirable
- Experience working with high-risk clients is highly desirable
- Demonstrated experience working with women and children presenting with complex needs and behaviours (e.g. trauma, substance abuse, mental health, parenting issues, disability) and from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds
- Demonstrated knowledge of the impacts of family violence and the capacity to apply appropriate theoretical frameworks to practice
- Demonstrated success in maintaining external networks and collaborative relationships with professionals both internal and external
- Demonstrated experience in preparing written reports, maintaining records, including case notes and data base reporting
- Demonstrated success working as part of an effective and productive team, along with the ability to be self-directed
- Ability to apply protective behaviours techniques which reduce children's vulnerability
- Demonstrated commitment to personal professional development including knowledge of the Royal Commission into Family Violence Recommendations and the broader impact of the current reforms on the family violence sector
Family Violence Minimum Mandatory Qualifications under Recommendation 209
As per the minimum mandatory qualifications requirements via this link:
All candidates wishing to apply for this role must be able to demonstrate that they:
- are considered EXEMPT under the policy
OR
- hold a Bachelor of Social Work or other equivalent qualification
OR
- have minimum 5 years relevant professional experience, OR a related qualification as per the mandatory minimum qualification requirements.
OR
- hold significant cultural knowledge and experience or lived experience, and have faced barriers to educational pathways
Please note that candidates wishing to enter the specialist family violence workforce via a related qualification or 5 years related professional experience pathway, OR the significant cultural knowledge and experience or lived experience pathways will be required to work towards an equivalent qualification within specified timeframes (as per the mandatory minimum qualifications policy). If you believe these pathways may apply to you and would like more information, please don't hesitate to contact recruitment@goodshep.org.au to discuss this further.
About Us
Our 2023-2027 strategy outlines the world we want to see and our role in advancing it. We aspire for all women, girls, and families to be safe, well, strong, and connected. We strive for equity, dignity and social justice for women, girls and families by collaborating globally and acting locally, supporting our communities in Australia and New Zealand to thrive.
We want women, girls and families to live full and dignified lives, have dignified income and enjoy financial wellbeing. We aim to provide place-based, people-centred, holistic services while working at the system level to achieve bold and audacious reform. We currently offer microfinance programs and products, financial counselling and coaching, family and domestic violence support services, family and youth programs, playgroups, education programs and community houses. These services are complemented by research and strong advocacy to address the underlying structural causes of injustice, exclusion, and inequality.
Good Shepherd employees are committed to inclusive practice that responds to the specific needs, context, and circumstances of service participants. We embrace the diversity and intersectionality of individuals and recognise a person's right to a unique identity comprising culture, language, ability, community, gender, sex, sexual orientation and lived experience.
- Salary packaging (which can add up to $15,900 in tax-free pay per year)
- Paid parental leave
- Gifted leave at Christmas and Easter
- Employee Assistance Program, a free and confidential counselling service
- + more
How to Apply
Please click 'Apply' to complete your application. Please upload your resume and a brief cover letter. Please apply as soon as possible, applications are considered as they are received.
APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 17th March 2025
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Personal data held by Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.
We recognise the rich diversity of people across Australia. We are committed to ensuring that our team is reflective of the diverse community we serve and to supporting a culture of equity, inclusion and diversity.
Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand is a Child Safe employer. Employment is subject to satisfactory referee checks, a current employment working with Children Check, National Criminal History check and proof of the right to work in Australia.
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