Senior Specialist - Family Violence Practitioner - Rapid Response & After-Hours

Job description

• Part Time, 0.4 FTE, 15.2hrs/week, Maximum Term Contract until 30-06-2024
• SCHCADs Level 6, $104,605.49 per annum + Super + Salary Packaging
• Based at our Refuge in the Bayside Peninsula Area

This position will form part of an integrated team within the Rapid Response and After-Hours program delivering high quality face to face and over the phone support to women and children who are experiencing Family Violence across the Bayside Peninsula Region.
The Family Violence responses will be provided at diverse locations within the region and may include service delivery sites, motels, police stations, hospitals, and other accommodations clients may be residing. This role requires a practitioner who can work independently and is able to apply framework and theories to provide the most appropriate and safe response to women and children experiencing Family Violence.
Details: Monday – Friday: One shift = 2.00pm – 9.00pm (On site) + Oncall and Recall (WFH) from 9.00pm - 9.00am. 2 days per week to make up 0.4 FTE.
About the responsibilities

• Provide a specialist Family Violence response both during daytime and afterhours to women and children.
• Intake and assessment, crisis response and facilitating referrals from Safesteps, The Orange Door or other sources.
• Assessing the immediate situation, safety risk and support needs of women and accompanying children using the MARAM framework.
• Provide psychoeducation and emotional support to women and children until they are allocated to a case manager/referred appropriately .
• Completing outreach to women and children in motels both during daytime and afterhours and supporting them with immediate needs including completing forms etc.
• Providing material aid that promotes safety and addressing the clients’ immediate needs.
• Completing an oncall-recall working component as part of shift
• Administration duties include processing referrals, case noting, opening and closing a support period, Afterhours profile, uploading documents, recording payments and booking emergency accommodation where required
• Provide supervision/coaching/debriefing to Specialist Family Violence Practitioners and other workers providing support to Good Shepherd’s Family Violence services

About you

• Appropriate tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, or a related tertiary discipline and/or other eligiblity under Recommendation 209*
• Demonstrated experience using MARAM to assess risk, needs and protective factors of women and children, safety planning and determining appropriate referral pathways
• Demonstrated ability to apply a trauma-informed framework to the various presentations of women and children
• Demonstrated experience working with women and children presenting with complex needs, behaviours (e.g. trauma, substance abuse, mental health, disability) and/or from CALD or indigenous backgrounds and/or LGBTIQA+ communities.
• Experience working with diverse communities experiencing multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantage (e.g. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities; people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities; people with disability; people from LGBTI communities).
• Demonstrated commitment to personal professional development including knowledge of the Royal Commission into Family Violence Recommendations and the broader impact of the current reforms on the Family Violence sector
• Experience working in a senior practitioner or leadership role highly desirable
• Flexibility and availability to deliver the after-hours service during evenings throughout the week, including public holidays
• A satisfactory Police Check
• A current Working with Children’s Check (WWCC) or state equivalent
• Proof of the right to work in Australia

Minimum Mandatory Qualifications Requirement (Rec209)
The minimum mandatory qualifications requirements are in place in Victoria and have been since the 1st of July 2021 are available on
Please contact us on using the subject line: Senior Specialist - Family Violence Practitioner enquiry via EthicalJobs, if you have any questions about these requirements.
About Good Shepherd
Our 2023-2027 strategy outlines the world we want to see and our role in advancing it. We aspire for all women, girls, and families to be safe, well, strong, and connected. We strive for equity, dignity and social justice for women, girls and families by collaborating globally and acting locally, supporting our communities in Australia and New Zealand to thrive.
We want women, girls and families to live full and dignified lives, have dignified income and enjoy financial wellbeing. We aim to provide place-based, people-centred, holistic services while working at the system level to achieve bold and audacious reform. We currently offer microfinance programs and products, financial counselling and coaching, family and domestic violence support services, family and youth programs, playgroups, education programs and community houses. These services are complemented by research and strong advocacy to address the underlying structural causes of injustice, exclusion, and inequality.
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