Therapeutic Practitioner + Waves

Therapeutic Practitioner +WAVES

Part Time Permanent

Sunshine VIC SCHADS Level 6.1

Supportive team environment

Opportunity to make a significant contribution

About Us

At Baptcare, we care. Our Mission and Vision are lived through our WE CARE Values: for our residents, customers, clients, partners, and supporters; with the very young through to the very old, the vulnerable, with families through all of life's stages and challenges.

Baptcare is a purpose driven organisation working across Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. Focused on providing residential and community care for older people and support to children, families, and people with disability, financially disadvantaged people and people seeking asylum.

Our Values are Wellbeing, Ethics, Co-creating, Accountability, Respect and Effectiveness.

About the Role

The Therapeutic Practitioner +WAVES role offers culturally sensitive and trauma informed services. Working in conjunction with the partner agencies (Spectrum and The Victorian Aboriginal Health Service - VAHS) - the Therapeutic Practitioner will focus on women and children as victim survivors of family violence. Additionally, +WAVES will deliver individually tailored support to the following duties:
**Key Accountabilities**:
Provide evidence
- based assessment, counselling, and case
- management support to victim survivors of family violence in the context of their family violence experience.

Plan, develop and monitor the implementation of evidence informed interventions.

Partner and collaborate with a variety of organisations to develop internal and external referral points.

Facilitation of evidence based/informed and therapeutic groups.

Participate, assist, and support the immediate and broader team to implement evidence-informed practice and ensure exceptional customer service and outcomes-based therapeutic support to clients.

About You

You are passionate about continuing to grow your career in the Mental Health space, solutions focused and up for making a difference. You align your approach to strategy to achieve organisational and divisional goals.

**You will ideally bring the following**:
**Skills and Experience**:
Tertiary qualifications in Social Work, Psychology or equivalent (essential)

Minimum of two years' experience post qualification working with children and families

Qualifications in Family Therapy, Child Development and Trauma (desirable)

Ability to utilise individual face to face therapeutic skills with adults.

Experience in planning and facilitating evidence based/informed therapeutic individual and group programs.

Capacity to analyse complex issues, including the impact of violence and trauma, safety and risk, provide therapeutic interventions for women and children and assist them to achieve goals.
- based interventions that enable positive change.

Knowledge of relevant risk and needs assessment frameworks; information sharing in the context of family violence provisions and the child information sharing scheme.

Experience in NFP and/or community aged care highly regarded.

Experience in a unionised workplace highly regarded.

Current Australian Driver's Licence and own insured vehicle.

Current Influenza and COVID-19 vaccination or willingness to obtain before commencement.

Willingness to obtain a Police Check through Baptcare.

Key Selection Criteria

**Essential skills**:
Ability to utilise individual face to face therapeutic skills with children, young people and adults.

Ability to be self-directed and work autonomously and demonstrate excellent organisational and time management skills.

Confident communication skills, in written and verbal English, highly impactful influencing, negotiation, persuasion and problem-solving skills.

Experience in planning and facilitating evidence based/informed therapeutic individual and group programs for children

Ability to adjust to meet the changing situations of the client group while maintaining focus on delivery and follow-through.

Sound stakeholder management and the ability to build and maintain strong, credible relationships with relevant stakeholders.

**Knowledge**:
Capacity to analyse complex issues, including the impact of violence and trauma, safety and risk, provide therapeutic interventions for women and children and assist them to achieve goals.
- based interventions that enable positive change.

Demonstrated evidence informed knowledge and understanding of child development and the impact of trauma and violence on children and young people.

Knowledge of and experience working within a funding environment.

Demonstrated understanding of the complexity of child protection, flexible funding interventions, out of home care and the family support systems and the issues involved in providing services to statutory clients.

Demonstrated level of self-awareness and resilience and the ability to manage multiple demands and prioritise accordingly.

Knowledge of relevant risk and needs assessment