Job Description
Family Violence Practitioner - Eastern Suburbs
Salary - $97K- 102K (depending on experience) + super + salary packaging
Benefits:
- Mon - Fri, Fulltime hours
- Generous remuneration
- Continued career growth and development
- Opportunity to utilise your skills to support vulnerable women and children
Why work with Client Organisation:
Our client organisation are committed to social justice, working for the rights of women, children and families to be safe from violence. The organisation provides high quality services for Aboriginal clients to promote healing from trauma.
About the Role:
We are recruiting an experienced Family Violence Practitioner to work with a leading not for profit organisation. The role will provide specialist family violence services to vulnerable families in the Eastern Metropolitan Region. You will be responsible for intake, completing assessments and respond to immediate needs for Aboriginal clients seeking support arond Family Violence.
Key Duties:
- Deliver quality intake, assessment and referrals for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women who are affected by family violence and their children.
- Completing short term case management, including crisis response to Aboriginal clients seeking support in the
- Complete intake processes, complete MARAM and assessing needs as well as formulating care plans for supports needed.
- Engaging respectfully and appropriately with Aboriginal clients.
- Completing all reporting requirements, such as case notes, assessments, closure reports, incident reports and all other reported as required.
- Work in a collaborative manner within the multi-disciplinary team and proactively engage in learnings to continuously improve practice.
Skills and Experience:
- Tertiary qualifications in Social Work, Psychology or related field
- Minimum 12 months experience working in a Family Violence Program
- Understanding of family violence theoretical frameworks and interventions
- Comprehensive MARAM training and experience utilising this with victim survivors and people who use violence
- Understanding of the historical and contemporary issues that impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their communities.
You will also need to be willing to provide 2x professional references + undergo a Working with Children Check and Police Check.
How to apply:
- Click 'Apply Now' and upload your CV via the appropriate link.
- For any queries regarding the position or application process, please email teamfam@twrecruitment.com.au or contact (03) 9081 0562 and ask to speak to someone in the Family Services Team
TRADEWIND AUSTRALIA AND THE ORGANISATIONS WE REPRESENT ARE PROUD TO BE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYERS.
We welcome applications from people who reflect the diversity of the organisations we partner with, and the people they support. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability and lived experience to apply.
