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Senior Practitioner - Family Dispute Resolution

Location: Bankstown Employment Type: PP - Part-time Ongoing Department: Children & Family Services/Disability Services Closing Date: 28 Sep 2025

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• Part-time opportunity |Based in Bankstown
• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• Hourly rate: $ $ Super + Salary packaging

About The Role
The Senior Practitioner FDR will work with the FDR Practice Manager to provide day-to-day operational and clinical support, expertise and guidance to a team of FDR Practitioners, working collaboratively to ensure integrated practice and enhance outcomes for separating families.

Some Of Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Support, Mentor, and Empower: Provide expert support, feedback, and guidance to FDR practitioners, helping ensure services are delivered effectively, compassionately, and in line with best practices and legal obligations.
• Strategic Insights & Specialist Advice: Partner closely with the Practice Manager, offering timely, well-informed, strategic input on service delivery, team performance, and quality assurance.
• Service Delivery: Maintain your own caseload and facilitate dispute resolution in parenting and property matters, bringing professionalism, empathy, and respect to every interaction.
• Skills Development & Clinical Leadership: Participate in—and occasionally lead—clinical supervision sessions (both individually and in groups), fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
• Accurate Data & Funding Compliance: Ensure all data collection aligns with internal policies and funder requirements, using reporting tools to maintain transparency and accountability.
• Ongoing Professional Development: Stay current with evolving best practices in family law, child protection, and domestic and family violence. Translate insights into practice to drive better outcomes for clients.

About You
To be a successful candidate you will have:

• Accreditation as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner and relevant tertiary qualifications in social sciences (such as psychology & social work) and/or law
• Demonstrated ability to build and leverage relationships across multi-functional or multi-disciplinary teams to achieve agreed objectives
• Demonstrated capacity to deliver a person-centred, strengths-based service
• Demonstrated ability to successfully support a high-performing team and maintain a positive workplace culture
• Demonstrated understanding of family law, child protection, domestic and family violence and other relevant legislation as required
• Strong organisational skills, including the capacity for critical thinking and a systemic approach to prioritisation
• Demonstrated competency in the use of technology to deliver client services and utilise client management systems
• Demonstrated experience and skills in working with Cultural and Linguistically Diverse Communities and with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
• Demonstrated high-level verbal and written communication skills.

Our Benefits

• Professional Growth: Tailored professional development opportunities to support your career ambitions
• Work-Life Balance: Embrace flexibility and align your work and your life to enable you to thrive in a Family Inclusive accredited organisation,
• Tax Savings: Maximise your income with generous salary packaging, reducing your tax and increasing your take-home pay
• Generous Leave: Above-award annual and personal/carers leave, extended parental leave, and additional leave for celebration and graduation day
• Inclusive: Join a friendly and supportive organisation that values your contributions and voice
• Wellbeing: Free access to a premium mindfulness app, EAP counselling, yearly flu vaccinations, and a variety of wellbeing activities to make your workday more enjoyable
• Choose a workplace that cares about your growth, happiness, and overall well-being. Join us today

To be considered for this role, you will need to attach your resume and a cover letter addressing how your skills, knowledge and experience meet the requirements of the role (Address the Selection Criteria).

Applications for this position close on 7th April 2024. Please submit your application as soon as possible as shortlisting and interviewing for this position will commence immediately.

Need More Information? Please contact
Kulsum Thakore, Talent Acquisition Partner, ,
About Us
People are at the core of everything we do: from supporting and enhancing the wellbeing of our clients to the nurturing and development of our staff and their career aspirations.

CatholicCare Sydney is a leading not-for-profit and the social services agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, supporting people from all walks of life. We're an organisation that promotes diversity and inclusion, and commits to the growth and wellbeing of our staff, empowering them to make a positive change to the community.
We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, identities, abilities, and cultures, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, member of the LGBTQI+ community, and people living with disabilities.
CatholicCare requires the preferred applicant to undertake a National Criminal History Record Check prior to employment, and for some roles, a Working with Children Check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check may be required.