DFV Worker – 2 Vacancies available
Full Time
Permanent
Western Sydney location + Work from Home options!
Life at DVSM
Domestic Violence NSW Service Management (DVSM) is a registered charity which aims to prevent and to provide support for people escaping/experiencing Domestic and Family Violence and homelessness. Our vision is a world where women, families and communities live free from violence, have equal rights, opportunities, and the freedom to reach their potential.
A key part of working in this role is to demonstrate our values in day-to-day work. These values are:
• Person Centred – We listen and embrace diversity to support our clients to achieve their self-defined goals.
• Excellence – We exceed expectations with our professionalism and evidence-based products, programs and services.
• Respect – We remain open minded and non-judgmental.
• Integrity – We are ethical, transparent and accountable.
Your Opportunity
The DFV Service is a Specialist Homelessness Service (SHS) who has the expertise to implement a range of best practice approaches to women and children experiencing domestic violence through service delivery within different environments, i.e. within a crisis refuge, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, or within the home of the client with the perpetrator removed.
The DFV Worker role supports women and their children residing in DVSM’s housing services. You will work alongside DFV Practitioners and the children’s services workers to support women, children and your people escaping DFV children and residing onsite.
Your Impact
• Provide daily support with routine to women and children living in DVSM’s housing services.
• Support to build positive relationships with the women and children.
• Supporting Case managers to facilitate group activities.
• Assist with attending appointments including Centrelink, health appointments etc.
• Respond to family’s mental health, safety and wellbeing needs as identified.
• Work in collaboration with the DFV Practitioners to achieve case plan goals including, assisting with completing referrals, admin tasks or liaising with key stakeholders.
• Partake on a rotating roster on on-call response for DVSM services.
What you’ll bring to the role
• Diploma in Community Services and/or Diploma in Counselling or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience of working in the DFV sector, family services and/or women’s services
• Knowledge and understanding of the gendered basis of DFV and the impact on women and children.
• Experience working in a team based environment
• Unrestricted NSW Driver Licence
• Working with Children Check (WWCC)
What DVSM will provide for you
• Not-for-profit salary packaging, reducing your tax (details via Access Pay)
• Rewarding Work – Work for an organisation who is committed to supporting families who have experienced DFV achieve their best outcome.
• Work for a dedicated children’s service in the DFV sector with a dedicated team and leadership team to seeing the children’s services grow.
• Flexible work environment
• Access to Learning and development and professional supervision
As we are an organisation that supports and services for women and children, to be female is a genuine requirement for the position under Section 31 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977.
For more information about who we are and what we do, please visit our website www.dvnswsm.org.au.