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About The Role

We are currently offering multiple exciting opportunities for driven individuals, an ideal chance to join a purpose-led team. Are you ready to make a meaningful impact in the lives of children, families, and individuals affected by family violence? Join us as a Practitioner - The Orange Door, a role that’s all about making a difference, every single day. Based at The Orange Door in Warrnambool, you’ll be part of a dynamic, multidisciplinary team working together to provide a single, integrated entry point for people seeking support with family violence, parenting challenges, or child wellbeing concerns.

As a Practitioner, you’ll bring empathy, critical thinking, and sound judgement into every conversation. You’ll be supported by a progressive, collaborative team that values diversity, inclusion, and continuous learning. You’ll conduct risk and needs assessments, develop safety plans using evidence-based tools, and work closely with victim-survivors, children, and men as fathers - ensuring all voices are heard and respected. You’ll provide secondary consultation and expert advice, help keep adults using violence accountable and in view, and refer families to the right supports to ensure safety, stability, and long-term wellbeing. With a strong focus on collaboration, cultural safety, and professional judgement, this is a unique opportunity to be part of a bold, client-centred reform that’s creating safer futures for our communities.

If you are passionate about contributing to a more connected, child-focused, and safety-led service system - and you’re ready to work in a space that’s both challenging and incredibly rewarding—we’d love to hear from you.

Employee Benefits

- 11 Wellbeing Days (to support worker well-being) - in addition to Annual Leave
- Above Award Salary of $97,537.44 - $101,951.17 (dependent on qualification and years of experience)
- Awesome Not-for-Profit Salary Sacrificing options of up to $15,899 per FBT year
- Excellent Learning & Development opportunities
- Portable Long Service Leave (from eligible organisations)

Do your skills include

- A strong knowledge and understanding of the drivers/causes of family violence and child and family vulnerability, as well as the child and family services and/or broader social services sector and their fundamental practices and theories
- Highly developed skills to undertake risk assessment and management plans, specific to or with transferability to the areas of family violence and child wellbeing and welfare
- A sound knowledge of the range of community, welfare, education, and health services available, or demonstrated capacity to acquire this knowledge
- Demonstrated ability to appropriately engage and work with Adults Using Family Violence (AUFV) who have been violent and who may present with a range of complex issues that contribute to their choice to use violence

Are your credentials

In this role, employees must meet the minimum qualification requirements mandated by the Australian government for Specialist Family Violence Practitioners (as prompted by Recommendation 209 of the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence).

- Able to meet the Victorian Government’s minimum mandatory qualifications requirements for specialist family violence practitioners in that you meet the policy guidance
- Hold a Bachelor of Social Work or other equivalent qualification (or are currently enrolled and working towards this)
- OR have minimum 5 years relevant professional experience and willing to undertake further study to gain equivalent qualification by June 2026
- OR a related qualification as per the mandatory minimum qualification requirements and willing to undertake further study to gain equivalent qualification by June 2026
- OR hold significant cultural knowledge and experience or lived experience, and have faced barriers to educational pathways and have a willingness to meet minimum or equivalent qualification within 10 years
- OR are considered exempt under the policy (practitioners who were part of the specialist family violence practitioner workforce prior to 2021)

For more information and a quick guide to assessing your current qualifications inline with the policy please note there is a link provided in the original posting.

- Current Drivers Licence

About the Orange Door

A key recommendation of the Royal Commission into Family Violence was to establish a network of Support and Safety Hubs across Victoria. This was to provide a new way for women, children and young people experiencing family violence and families who need assistance with the care and wellbeing of children to access the service they need to be safe and supported. The Orange Door Initiative was implemented across Victoria as the intake point for Family Violence and Child Wellbeing issues. The safety of victim-survivors is the Orange Door's first priority. The hub will also help to maintain a focus on perpetrators, so the risk they pose can be assessed and they are held to account for their behaviour. To read more about the Orange Door program please note there was a link in the original posting.

Diversity and Inclusion at Brophy

Brophy is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that ensures safety and a sense of belonging for everyone. We embrace individuals of diverse races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, religions, abilities, and nationalities, recognising the richness that varied experiences bring to our efforts in supporting individuals and building stronger communities. Our commitment extends to actively listening, learning, and evolving to become an accessible, inclusive, and secure organisation for all, encompassing First Nations peoples, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, individuals with disabilities, and those with culturally diverse backgrounds.

Contact and application

For further information on this position please contact Jenny Hand (Manager - Family Violence & Child Wellbeing Intake) at 5561 8888. We’re excited to hear from interested candidates and will be reviewing applications as they arrive. To give yourself the best opportunity, please apply as soon as possible, as suitable applicants may be invited to interview or offered the role during the recruitment process.

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