Orange Door Practitioner

At The Orange Door, every day brings a new story - and a chance to make a real impact. As an Orange Door Practitioner, you're there when it matters most - supporting families, listening without judgment, and guiding people toward safety and stability. It's challenging, purposeful work that puts children and their wellbeing at the centre. If you're ready to be part of meaningful change, we'd love to hear from you.

Employee Benefits

• 11 Wellbeing Days (to support worker well-being)- in addition to Annual Leave
• Above Award Salary of $97, $101, dependent on qualification and years of experience)
• Awesome Not-for-Profit Salary Sacrificing options of up to $15,899 per FBT year
• Excellent Learning & Development opportunities
• Portable Long Service Leave (from eligible organisations)

About the Role:

We're currently offering multiple exciting opportunities for driven individuals, an ideal chance to join a purpose-led team

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact in the lives of children, families, and individuals affected by family violence? Join us as an Orange Door Practitioner - a role that's all about making a difference, every single day.  Based at The Orange Door in Warrnambool, you'll be part of a dynamic, multidisciplinary team working together to provide a single, integrated entry point for people seeking support with family violence, parenting challenges, or child wellbeing concerns.

As an Orange Door Practitioner, you'll bring empathy, critical thinking, and sound judgement into every conversation. You'll be supported by a progressive, collaborative team that values diversity, inclusion, and continuous learning. You'll conduct risk and needs assessments, develop safety plans using evidence-based tools, and work closely with victim-survivors, children, and men as fathers - ensuring all voices are heard and respected. You'll provide secondary consultation and expert advice, help keep adults using violence accountable and in view, and refer families to the right supports to ensure safety, stability, and long-term wellbeing. With a strong focus on collaboration, cultural safety, and professional judgement, this is a unique opportunity to be part of a bold, client-centred reform that's creating safer futures for our communities.

If you're passionate about contributing to a more connected, child-focused, and safety-led service system - and you're ready to work in a space that's both challenging and incredibly rewarding - we'd love to hear from you.

Do your skills include:

• A strong knowledge and understanding of the drivers/causes of family violence and child and family vulnerability, as well as the child and family services and/or broader social services sector and their fundamental practices and theories.
• Highly developed skills to undertake risk assessment and management plans, specific to or with transferability to the areas of family violence and child wellbeing and welfare.
• A sound knowledge of the range of community, welfare, education, and health services available, or demonstrated capacity to acquire this knowledge.  .
• Demonstrated ability to appropriately engage and work with Adults Using Family Violence (AUFV)who have been violent and who may present with a range of complex issues that contribute to their choice to use violence and /or are present due to their violence.

Are your credentials:

In this role, employees must meet the minimum qualification requirements mandated by the Australian government for Specialist Family Violence Practitioners (as prompted by Recommendation 209 of the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence);

• Able to meet the Victorian Government's minimum mandatory qualifications requirements for specialist family violence practitioners (as prompted by Recommendation 209 of the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence) in that you:
• Hold a Bachelor of Social Work or other equivalent qualification (or are currently enrolled and working towards this)
• OR have minimum 5 years relevant professional experience and willing to undertake further study to gain equivalent qualification by June 2026.
• OR a related qualification as per the mandatory minimum qualification requirements and willing to undertake further study to gain equivalent qualification by June 2026.
• OR hold significant cultural knowledge and experience or lived experience, and have faced barriers to educational pathways and have a willingness to meet minimum or equivalent qualification within 10 years.
• OR are considered exempt under the policy (practitioners who were part of the specialist family violence practitioner workforce prior to 2021)

For more information and a quick guide to assessing your current qualifications inline with the policy please click here.

• Current Drivers Licence.

About the Orange Door

A key recommendation of the Royal Commission into Family Violence was to establish a network of Support and Safety Hubs across Victoria. This was to provide a new way for women, children and young people experiencing family violence and families who need assistance with the care and wellbeing of children to access the service they need to be safe and supported.

The Orange Door Initiative was implemented across Victoria as the intake point for Family Violence and Child Wellbeing issues. The safety of victim-survivors is the Orange Door's first priority. The hub will also help to maintain a focus on perpetrators, so the risk they pose can be assessed and they are held to account for their behaviour.

Brophy works closely with the Orange Door to build the capacity of vulnerable families and individuals to enable them to self-manage and be the best they can be through referrals to many of our program areas.

To read more about the Orange Door program please click here.

Diversity and Inclusion at Brophy:

Brophy is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that ensures safety and a sense of belonging for everyone. We embrace individuals of diverse races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, religions, abilities, and nationalities, recognising the richness that varied experiences bring to our efforts in supporting individuals and building stronger communities.

Our commitment extends to actively listening, learning, and evolving to become an accessible, inclusive, and secure organisation for all, encompassing First Nations peoples, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, individuals with disabilities, and those with culturally diverse backgrounds.

For further information on this positions please contact Jenny Hand (Manager - Family Violence & Child Wellbeing Intake) on

We're excited to hear from interested candidates and will be reviewing applications as they arrive. To give yourself the best opportunity, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as suitable applicants may be invited to interview or offered the role during the recruitment process