Senior Practitioner

Posted:

30/07/2025

Closing Date:

22/08/2025

Job Type:

Contract

Location:

Melbourne - Northern Region

Job Category:

Family Violence Services

Great People. Great Careers. Excellent Healthcare

DPV Health is a leading healthcare service provider delivering a wide variety of clinical, community health and wellbeing services across Melbourne's northern growth corridor. DPV Health has been awarded the Premier's Primary Healthcare Service of the Year in 2023 & 2024.

Our People are the foundation of DPV Health; they are what make our organisation thrive and the ones who create meaningful change in people's lives. Over 700 professionals support and deliver excellent health care to our community at DPV Health. We are always looking for passionate, driven, great people to join our team and make a lasting impact. That is why we foster a workplace culture that is as rewarding as it is inclusive. We are committed to supporting Our People to lead fulfilling lives, no matter who they are, or where they are from - or where they are going.

Our workplace culture is committed to DPV Health values and celebrates workforce diversity reinforcing the positive approach we have to the way people contribute, communicate, engage and interact. Our People deserve to feel empowered and supported as they pursue their professional goals, learn new skills, and achieve meaningful milestones in their work. At DPV Health, we foster an environment that promotes greater growth, innovation, and collaboration, so you can feel elevated every day.

Our employee benefits, connect, recognise, and support Our People, acknowledging and valuing everyday contributions to the success and culture at DPV Health. We strive to ensure that Our People thrive at work and in all personal and professional pursuits. We invest in Our People, proudly offering a diverse range of opportunities including knowledge sharing, ongoing learning and development, leadership development, connectedness, and celebration; these are key pillars in our culture.

Job Description

Join a highly engaged, professional, and collaborative team for delivering high impact outcomes to our consumer groups with flexible, family-friendly working arrangements including a hybrid approach.

Greatness starts here

The Victims Assistance Program sits within the Mental Health, Family Violence and Community Outreach directorate at DPV Health.

The Program aims are to:

• provide quality services that support the needs of victims so they can recover and thrive
• assist and advocate on behalf of victims navigating the criminal justice system to enable victims to be informed and empowered, and
• establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders to support the delivery of seamless and accessible services to victims of crime

About the opportunity

This Victims Assistance Program (VAP) Senior Practitioner position will take a proactive role in providing:

• Intake, assessment (inclusive of risk assessments), psychoeducation and referral (including warm referrals) to allocated consumers inclusive of quality case management
• support to consumers to develop a personal recovery plan which includes a safe and planned exit
• secondary consults and mentoring to support staff when working with complex clients
• delivery of high-quality trauma informed brief intervention and intensive therapeutic case
• management services (including assertive outreach) using a high throughput model
• community education activities that promote and inform others about VAP.

Desired Skills and Experience

Bring your great, everyday

To be successful for this role, you will require:

• Tertiary qualifications in Social Work or relevant and related discipline;
• Minimum several years' experience in providing clinical and line supervision to staff within the community sector in a trauma related area;
• Demonstrated experience providing advice and direction for staff and students on complex matters including, crisis intervention, comprehensive risk assessments and safety planning, timely and considered decision making, and planning to respond to clients' needs with demonstrated practice in providing trauma-based interventions;
• Ability to model positive, flexible, and dynamic skills to support and develop a team of workers to inspire vision, direction, and professional conduct.;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build rapport and foster harmonious and collaborative relationships internally and with external stakeholders;
• Demonstrated resilience and aptitude in working with complex and important matters, sound judgement and ability to prioritise competing demands.

The fine print

• Full-time position. Fixed Term to June 2026

• Successful candidates will be required to undergo a National Police Check, International Police Check (if applicable), hold a valid WWCC.

• Work-Life Balance: Hybrid work - home, in the office and at other locations
• Provision of 4/52 leadership supervision with highly skilled external supervisor
• Opportunity to enrol in Elevate Leadership Program and Access to 'tailored Clinical Training Program.
• Generous salary packaging: Up to $15,800 per year (+ additional $2,650 meals and entertainment)
• Health and wellbeing: Add in more lifestyle benefits - reduce gym membership rates and staff support is available through EAP
• Opportunities for professional development: online and face-to-face
• ADOs

Our Talent Experience

Applications close 22nd August 2025

For further information, please contact Team leader and We will be actively reviewing applications as they are received, so please don't delay.

DPV Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to ensuring we have an inclusive, diverse and safe workplace for our staff and clients. To us diversity means people of any age, family situation, cultural and linguistic background, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical sex characteristics, ability or disability, health, life experience, socio-economic situation, faith, spirituality and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background. We encourage all individuals to apply.

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We will not be accepting applications from agencies for this position.