Specialist Family Violence Refuge and After-Hours Practitioner

Berry Street is one of the largest independent agencies within Australia, providing diverse programs to over 35,000 young people, children and families across Victoria each year. We pride ourselves on our ingenuity, evidence based and multi-dimensional thinking to provide the best outcomes for our young people.

We believe children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful and strive to make this happen each day

• Mount Helen office location, Wadawurrung Country
• Casual role opportunity
• $63.75 p/h

About The Program
The Western Family Violence Service (WFVS) is the lead provider for the integrated family violence service system in the Central Highlands sub-region.

The WFVS provides support and intervention services to adult and child victim-survivors, as well as people who use violence.

Our programs aim to support victim-survivors to remain safely within their community and to recover from the impacts of family violence and, to support accountability and change for people who have used or are using force or violence.

Role Opportunity
The Western team have a casual opportunity to join the team You will be responsible for delivering specialist family violence interventions to clients in refuge, safer accommodation and those supported via after hours referral in line with MARAM.

Complete risk assessments, safety planning and develop plans with the aim of ensuring immediate safety from violence, as identified in the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) Framework.

About You
To be successful in the role you will come with strong communication capabilities to liaise with relevant stakeholders and referring services/programs to ensure effective service delivery and clear referral processes and pathways.

Demonstrated experience in the provision of crisis intervention, assessment, and safety planning to adults and (their) child victim-survivors who have experienced family violence is necessary to this role.

A minimum Bachelor level qualification in Social Work or recent employment in the family violence sector or equivalency met through the 7 Equivalency Principles in line with the minimum mandatory qualification requirements. Please refer to the position description for more information.

Berry Street Benefits

• A culture that values and support professional development
• Flexible work arrangements
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program, with access for staff's immediate family.

Apply now
Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position to be submitted, applications to be reviewed upon receipt.

Queries to
Mandy Gambino, Senior Manger on
Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and National and International Police check if required and Workers Carer Exclusion Scheme clearance if applicable.
Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTQIA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply.