Specialist Family Violence Hub Practitioner

3 weeks ago


Ballarat, Australia Berry Street Full time

**Ballarat Location, Wadawurrung Country**:

- **Full Time, 12 Month Opportunity**:

- ** Base salary $102k - $107k (pro rata) + 11% Super + Salary Packaging $15,900** **pa (pro rata)**

**Your Opportunity**

Berry Street's Western Specialist Family Violence Service provides a Specialist Family Violence team within The Orange Door (Ballarat Region) as an initiative resulting per Recommendations 37 and 38 of the Royal Commission into Family Violence.

The fundamental function of The Orange Door (also known as the Support and Safety Hub) is to:

- Be a more visible and accessible contact point for service users requiring specialist support.
- Provide help for people to identify family violence and child wellbeing issues.
- Support to access justice and legal support.
- Offer advice based on contemporary risk assessment tools and guidance.
- Provide specialist support and tailored advice for victims, families and children, and perpetrators.
- Connection and coordination of access to support.
- A system wide view of service capacity, client experience and outcomes.

**Key Responsibilities**

The Specialist Family Violence Hub Practitioner plays a critical role in family violence risk assessment, safety planning and engagement of victim/survivors and children into any supports they need. The referrals are a combination of police referred, victim/survivors calling our service directly, or referrals from other services. The service can be provided by contacting victim/survivors by phone, face to face at the Hub, or conducting outreach appointments.

**Your Skills and Experience**
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated experience working with victim survivors and their children who have experienced family violence
- A high level of understand of the gendered nature of family violence
- Experience in undertaking comprehensive risk assessments (CRAF or TRAM)
- An understanding of the Child, Youth and Families Act 2007 and the Family Violence Protection Act 2008

**Berry Street**

Join our team We are one of the largest independent agencies within Australia, providing diverse programs to over 35,000 young people, children and families across Victoria each year. We pride ourselves on our ingenuity, evidence based and multi-dimensional thinking to provide the best outcomes for our young people

We believe children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful and strive to make this happen each day

**Extra benefits**
- Above award salaries & allowances
- Regular reflective supervision
- A culture that values and support professional development
- $15,900.00 pa (pro rata) Salary Packaging + Additional Salary Packaging for meals/accommodation
- Flexible work arrangements
- 10 weeks paid parental leave + other generous leave conditions
- Access to the Employee Assistance Program, with access for staff's immediate family
- Leave loading 17.5%
- Extra carers leave
- Ongoing training opportunities in therapeutic frameworks

**How to Apply**

Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position to be submitted by **11pm on the 14th of February 2024.**

Queries to **Mandy Gambino, Senior Manager on 0419 759 037**
- Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion._
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply._



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