Orange Door Practitioner

Requisition No: 5768
- Executive Division: Operations
- Division: Integrated Community Health Services
- Program: Community Programs
- Department: Orange Door Network - Brimbank Melton
- Enterprise Agreement: Allied Health Professionals (Victorian Public Sect
- Job Function: Allied Health Professionals
- Project:

- **Location**: Orange Door Brimbank Melton (offices located in Sunshine and Cobblebank)
- **Employment Type**: Part-Time (3 days/week), Fixed Term (until June 2026)
- **Salary Range**: $56,624.88 - $60,103.68 per annum (pro-rata, based on 3 days per week, depending on skills and experience) + Super + Salary Packaging
- **Annual Leave**: 5 weeks per annum

**About the role**

The Orange Door Brimbank Melton provides an integrated service response for people experiencing family violence, women, children, and families in need of support, and people who use violence. In this role, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, client-centred responses and contribute to improving safety and wellbeing outcomes for adults and children. This position offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a supportive and collaborative team environment.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Provide short-term support to individuals impacted by family violence, including advice and referrals.
- Focus on risk management, safety planning, and making appropriate referrals.
- Conduct child wellbeing checks and complete child wellbeing assessments.
- Complete risk assessments on people using violence.
- Complete MARAM’s with Victim Survivors.
- Adhere to documentation and record keeping requirements.

**The Orange Door**:
The Orange Door aims to support individuals and families experiencing family violence by providing a central access point to services tailored to their unique needs. Our key priority is to reduce the risk of harm associated with controlling, violent, and abusive behaviour through comprehensive risk assessment and management strategies. We achieve this by:

- Providing a visible contact point for individuals seeking specialist support.
- Assisting people in identifying family violence and child well-being issues.
- Offering advice based on contemporary risk assessment tools and guidance.
- Providing specialist support and tailored advice for victims, families, children, and people using violence.
- Coordinating access to support services.
- Maintaining a system-wide view of service capacity, client experience, and outcomes.

**About you**:
You are a skilled and compassionate practitioner with experience engaging adults who use family violence. You demonstrate a strong understanding of the drivers and dynamics of family violence, risk assessment, and behaviour change principles. You are confident in undertaking comprehensive assessments, developing safety plans, and working collaboratively with partner agencies to promote accountability and support change. You bring empathy, sound judgement, and a commitment to delivering evidence-informed, respectful, and non-collusive practice.

You are a highly resilient and adaptable individual who thrives in an ever-changing environment and maintains a calm, solutions-focused approach under pressure. Your ability to build rapport, maintain professional boundaries, and contribute to a multidisciplinary team will make you an asset to the Orange Door Brimbank Melton workforce.

**Position Description**

**About Western Health**

Western Health is one of the largest healthcare providers in Victoria, caring for a vibrant, diverse and rapidly growing community of one million people in Melbourne’s western suburbs.

With more than 13,000 staff, Western Health delivers 800,000+ occasions of care every year, providing high-quality, person-centred care across every life stage.

We provide a combination of hospital, community-based, at-home and in-reach services to aged, adult and paediatric patients and newborn babies. Specialties include oncology, renal, mental health, women’s health and maternity, chronic diseases, geriatrics and cardiology.

We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions. Our experience at the coalface of healthcare delivery for some of Australia’s most culturally and socioeconomically diverse and vulnerable populations provides us with unique insights into the most pressing health challenges.

Western Health operates four acute public hospitals: Sunshine Hospital (including Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s), Footscray Hospital, Williamstown Hospital and Bacchus Marsh Hospital. We also operate Sunbury Community Hospital, Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre, Melton Health and Community Services, Bacchus Marsh Community Health Centre, Caroline Springs Community Health Centre and Grant Lodge Residential Aged Care in Bacchus Marsh. Western Health also provides the primary healthcare service at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a women’s prison lo