Specialist Family Violence Practitioner
1 week ago
**Work options**: Hybrid
- Preston location, Wurundjeri Country
- Part-time (0.6), Permanent opportunity
- Base salary $106k plus super and salary packaging
- An opportunity to utilise your family violence knowledge and expertise to provide best practice case management and support to victim survivors and their children. _
Your Opportunity
Berry Street’s Northern Specialist Family Violence Service (NSFVS) is a provider and access point for integrated family violence services in the Northern Metro Melbourne sub-region. The service provides a range of support services to families who have experienced family violence.
This position will play a critical role in providing a specialist family violence case management response to up to 10 victim survivors and their children. In addition to this, an important part of this position includes family violence capacity building activities, secondary consultation, family violence training and attendance at networks, as identified in consultation with the Team Leader Community Programs.
This position is currently based in Preston with a mix of in office and working from home.
**What does a Specialist Family Violence Practitioner do?**
Primarily the role is expected to be assessing family violence risk and working intensively with victim survivors and their children to identify goals and achieve them.
The NSFVS service operates within a collaborative & supportive team environment with a strong focus on partnerships with relevant external organisations.
The role will engage with key service providers in the Moreland LGA and other LGA’s as required and will be supported by the expertise of the Berry Street NSFVS team in building and strengthening these networks and partnerships.
**What skills and qualifications do you need?**
**The Benefits**
- Above award salaries & allowances
- $15,900.00 pa (pro rata) Salary Packaging + Additional Salary Packaging for meals/accommodation
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- 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
**How to Apply**
Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position to be submitted by** midnight on Monday 23rd September 2024.**
Queries to** Sara Conroy - Program Manager, NSFVS, Crisis & High Risk on (03) 9450 4762.**
- 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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