Children's Practitioner, Family Violence
1 month ago
McAuley Community Services for Women is no ordinary community service. We support women and children into safe and sustainable living, regardless of their entry point, complexity, need or recovery time. Feminism, intersectionality, and anti-oppressive practices are imbedded within our client practice and our culture.
McAuley is a ministry of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea. We have merged with MacKillop Family Services in October 2023.
**About the role**:
A unique opportunity for a Children's Practitioner, Family Violence, to join a specialist family violence team in a newly established refuge cluster in Melton. The Children’s Practitioner, Family Violence will provide child focused, trauma informed family violence support to infants, children, and young people in collaboration with their mother and other supports. This includes empowering mothers and strengthening the mother child relationship.
**This is a **_Permanent Part-Time (30.4 hours per week - 0.8 EFT)_** opportunity based in Melton within our Community Services program. The position reports to the Team Leader.**
Some of the duties and responsibilities will involve:
- Developing and delivering high quality, age-appropriate therapeutic activities and support
- Engaging with mothers and children to conduct child specific risk assessments and risk management
- Developing and contributing to child specific case plans to ensure children are supported as clients in their own right as well as part of a broader family structure
- Providing secondary consultation to Case Managers and other support staff
- Utilising a strengths-based approach to empower mothers in their parenting and strengthen the mother child relationship, including building a sense of safety
- Coordinating and work collaboratively with a range of services and stakeholders to support women and children reach their goals.
The overall aim is to support women and children to attain safety, longer term housing and independence.
We are currently recruiting for two part-time roles that will require occasional weekend work (roster based).For a full listing please view the Position Description at the bottom of this page.
For more information, please contact:
**_ Our offer:_**:
- _ Generous Salary Packaging (helps increase your take home pay)_
- _ Ongoing Career Development, Education and Training_
- _ Employee Assistance Program - free and confidential counselling, coaching and emotional support for work and personal challenges_
- _ Click _HERE_ to find out more about becoming a member of the MacKillop Family Services team and what further support we have to offer our employees._
**You must have a**:
- Valid and current Driver’s Licence;
- Satisfactory Criminal History Check (paid for by MacKillop);
- Valid Employee Working with Children Check;
Our Commitment:
MacKillop celebrates and draws strength from diversity and respects the dignity of all people. Every person at MacKillop has the right to be safe and to be treated justly. We value every person’s ability, cultural or linguistic backgrounds, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, intersex status, relationship status, religious or spiritual beliefs, socio-economic status, and age.
It is our goal that MacKillop Family Services continues to evolve as a culturally safe, culturally competent, and welcoming organisation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people, families, and communities.
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