Men's Family Violence Practitioner

Posted: 18/10/2024

Closing Date: 08/11/2024

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Melbourne - Northern Region

Job Category: Family Violence Services

**Great People. Great Careers. Excellent Healthcare**

DPV Health is a leading healthcare service provider in Melbourne’s northern growth corridor, delivering a wide variety of clinical, community health and wellbeing services.

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**Greatness starts here - About the Orange Door**

The Orange Door Partnership aims to address the needs of all Victorians who experience or use Family Violence as well as families who need support in relation to child wellbeing. The NEMA Orange Door is an integrated intake and assessment service that is the referral pathway to a range of services including Integrated Family Services, Specialist Women’s Family Violence Services, Men’s Behaviour Change and other services.

DPV practitioners within the NEMA Orange Door provide specialist family violence intake assessment and referral responses primarily to men using violence.

**About the opportunity**:
The Practitioner - Men’s Family violence is a clinical position responsible for providing specialist family violence responses primarily to people who use violence. The position may also include providing specialist family violence responses to victim survivors and child wellbeing support depending on service needs.

Additional information can be obtained from the attached position description.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
**Bring your great, everyday**
- Working with Children’s Check (WWCC)
- Victoria Police Check
- Current Victorian Driver’s License
- Hold a Bachelor of Social Work, Eligible for membership of AASW **OR** at least 5 years relevant experience and be working towards meeting recommendation 209 - social work degree
- Experience within the family violence sector including experience working with men using violence or other relevant experience that demonstrates capacity to undertake the role.
- A passion for integrated service delivery, service reform and improving outcomes for women, children and families.

**The fine print**
- Applications will be progressed to interview as they are received.

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