Specialist Family Violence Advisor

**Title**:Specialist Family Violence Advisor - Mental Health

**Location**:Box Hill, VIC, AU, 3128**Job Posting Date**:11 Sep 2024Do you work for Eastern Health currently? If so, please log in to Eastern Health Careers Employee Login using your network login details to see the full range of jobs available to you

**Specialist Family Violence Advisor - Mental Health**
- Permanent Full Time
- Box Hill and Ringwood
- Great Salary Packaging Benfits

**Eastern Health**
Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.
Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan - which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.**About the role**
- The Specialist Family Violence Advisor Mental Health Team provides family violence expertise and support to the Mental Health and Wellbeing Program (MHWP) in identifying and responding to family violence. It does this through capacity building, primary and secondary consultations, co-location and systems review to support the MHWP to undertake MARAM requirements, to support victim survivors and children and provide an understanding of how to work with the person using violence. The position will support the ermbedding of the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) and information sharing framework into core mental health practice and to align with the Victorian Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce capability Framework (2021).**About you**
- To be successful in this role you will possess:
- Current registration with AHPRA or relevant body
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of and have highly developed skills when working with consumers who have experienced family violence, including children- Demonstrated understanding of capacity building and providing secondary consultation to high risk cases, including consumers who are using family family violence
- Understand the correlation between family violence, mental health and trauma and the impact across the lifespan
- Knowledge and understanding of the MARAM framework, current legislation relevant to Family Violence and mental health practice including the Mental health act, Family Violence protection act, Child and Wellbeing Safety Act, FVIS/CISS and the landscape of policy reform across Victorian and nationally.
- A strong commitment to high quality care
- The ability to work as part of a diverse team
- Excellent communication and organisational skills

Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.**What we offer**
- Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here- Diverse and engaging career opportunities
- Friendly & supportive team
- Flexible working hours
- Salary packaging options
- Career progression in our teaching hospitals

**Next Steps**- **Good to know**:

- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
- We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
- As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
- Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
- Advertising may end before the closing date.
- Please- Contact Person: Gavin Foster- Contact Number: 0407939809-
- Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 (Option 1)**Our Values in Action**:

- Respect for all | Safe always | Partnering in care | Learning and improving every day