Orange Door Practitioner

**Multidisciplinary team providing an intake function to vulnerable families**:

- **10% gap discount for childcare services with Uniting Early Learning services**:

- **Increase take-home pay with access to $15,900 salary packing benefits**:

- **Permanent full time position based at Dandenong**

**About the opportunity**

As an Orange Door Practitioner, working in a multidisciplinary integrated Orange Door agency team, you will deliver quality, safe, and effective responses to children, young people, and families experiencing family violence. You will deliver intake support via phone, within the Orange Door site and through outreach visits.

In addition, you will:

- Actively manage a caseload
- Delivery screening and triage, assessment, crisis responses, service planning, targeted interventions, allocation and coordinated referrals
- Work collaboratively to support integrated risk assessment and planning
- Refer clients to services within the broader service system and provide them information and support

**What’s on offer**

In addition to receiving a salary equivalent to **SCHADS Level 5** and superannuation, you’ll also receive **17.5% leave loading** and the ability to **increase your take-home** pay by accessing up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits.

Uniting has an option for additional **purchased leave** to increase your annual leave entitlements.

Receive **10% discount** on the childcare subsidy gap fee when using a Uniting Early Learning service or centre and a **25% discount** off donated goods at Uniting Op shops.

**About you**

You thrive in a dynamic environment, assessing and responding to children and families presenting with a range of issues at a time when they need support most. You love that no day is ever the same and feel energized when you find referral pathways and empower individuals to be involved in developing their own support arrangement.

You will bring:

- Bachelor of Social Work or equivalent as per the mandatory minimum qualification requirements for specialist family violence practitioners
- Experience, skills, and capabilities in child, youth, and families welfare
- Well-developed risk assessment and management skills
- Understanding of the broader service system referral pathways
- Sound understanding of the MARAM Framework, Best Interests Principles and the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005
- Valid and current Driver’s License

**How to apply**

If you’ve questions about the opportunity, please contact **Lynett Muhaso** - Team Leader Orange Door **on** 1800 271 170**.

Click here to view the position description.

**About The Orange Door**

The Orange Door Program brings together workforces from Community Service organisations, Aboriginal Services, Family Safety Victoria and DFFH, to deliver an integrated practice model and a consolidated intake point for:

- Women, children, young people, and families who are experiencing or have experienced family violence
- People who use violence
- Families requiring support with the care, development and wellbeing of unborn babies, infants, children, and young people

Uniting focuses on providing services to vulnerable families who require extra support with the care, development and wellbeing of unborn babies, infants, children and young people.

**About Uniting**

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse range of services across Victoria and Tasmania.
- Uniting is also committed to equal opportunity and ensuring the workplace is reflective of the community. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability._