Community Lawyer - Mabels (Yarra Ranges)

ECLC is seeking a passionate and experienced Community Lawyer to deliver intensive and holistic legal support services for women and children at risk of or experiencing family violence.

• Ongoing, Part-time role (0.6 FTE) 22.5 hours per week
• Caring, supportive and professional organisation culture
• Attractive employee benefits include a friendly and supportive work culture, salary packaging, leave loading, additional paid leave over Christmas/New Year and on-site parking.

Eastern Community Legal Centre (ECLC) is a multidisciplinary legal service that works to prevent problems, progress fair outcomes and support the wellbeing and resilience of communities and community members in Melbourne’s East.

Mabels is a Health Justice Partnership between Eastern Community Legal Centre, Boorndawan Willam Aboriginal Healing Service (BWAHS) and three Victorian local government councils. The Program seeks to provide an early intervention advice and referral response to family violence within the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) context by improving the responses of maternal and child health, legal, family violence and support services in a co-ordinated and integrated manner.

The Community Lawyer – Mabels will actively engage in integrated practice with the Family Violence Advocates within the Family Violence Initiatives Program to provide legal advice, support & advocacy to women experiencing or at risk of experiencing family violence.

You will be eligible to hold an unrestricted Victorian Practising Certificate and have demonstrated post-admission experience in a broad range of legal matters.  You will be a compassionate person who respects people, their circumstances and decisions and take a holistic approach to your work.  You are comfortable operating both autonomously and within a cohesive team, and have the ability to prioritise and manage multiple, competing demands.  Specifically, you will have:

• Demonstrated understanding of the dynamics of family violence as it affects women and children
• Demonstrated understanding and ability to work within an early intervention model
• Experience working with or within a multi-disciplinary environment  
• Awareness of the relationship between a partnership program model, integrated practice, casework and community development 

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