This is your chance to join an organisation with an exceptional team culture, driven by a commitment to diversity, respect and fairness.
The Role:
The Assessment and Reporting Officer provides specialist family and domestic violence assessment and ensures a high quality of reporting within the Connect and Respect program. Working closely with the coordinator you will oversee the assessment process and the production of quality-controlled documents, collaborating with other team members to ensure the safety of women and children impacted by family and domestic violence and provide support in delivering programs.
This role will be offered on fixed term full-time basis working 76 hours per fortnight until 30 September 2024.
Who Are We?
Since opening our doors in 1977, our passion for delivering high quality, people-focused support services has continued to flourish. In May 2020, we became the new custodian of White Ribbon Australia, establishing a national footprint for the organisation.
We remain committed to growing a workforce that celebrates diversity and seeks to inspire and empower the people we serve.
While we’ve changed a lot over the past 45 years, our values – Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance and Equality – remain at the very heart of everything we do.
Selection Criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including presentation and public speaking skills.
- Ability to develop rapport, be non-judgemental and provide a high level of risk assessment, safety planning, individual and group work, case management to clients across the lifespan.
- Stakeholder engagement and networking across all organisational levels.
- Crisis management.
- De-escalation and conflict resolution.
- Effectively engage with participants and demonstrate a clear ability to attend to crisis and emotional distress.
- Advocacy, negotiation, and teamwork.
- Demonstrate a willingness to engage in reflective practice that takes into account a gendered and feminist analysis of behaviours, thoughts and feelings.
- Demonstrated high level time management and task management skills, and ability to work under limited direction.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to participate effectively in line management and supervision.
- Experience in the delivery of Family and Domestic Violence Men’s Behaviour change
- Experience in writing high level reports and preparing supporting documentation
- Experience in use of Microsoft Office suite of applications or equivalent.
- Satisfactory Police clearance (not older than 6 months from the issue date)
- Unrestricted drivers’ licence
- Working With Children Check
What we can offer you
- Generous NFP salary packaging opportunities (option to package up to $15,900 for general living expenses and an additional $2,650 for entertainment benefits per annum)
- Extra Leave – 5 days of extra paid leave per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Paid parental leave policy
- Family Domestic Violence and Abuse (FDVA) leave, financial assistance and structured support for any employees who have experienced FDVA incidents
- Discounted Health Insurance with HBF
- Free, confidential counselling services through our Employee Assistance Program
- Annual Flu Vaccination Program
How to apply
Please submit a resume and a cover letter that addresses our Selection Criteria. Applications close 08 November 2023
White Ribbon Workplaces are centres of respect and proactivity in relation to the safety of women in the workplace and the community.
Communicare encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQI+ and people living with disabilities.
Short listing will commence immediately. We reserve the right to close the position without notice. Unsolicited resumes and contact from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.