• Mt Helen, Ballarat location, Wadawurrung Country
• Full time, Permanent role
• Base rate $96k plus super and salary packaging

For over 140 years, Berry Street has adapted to a changing world, and we will continue to adapt to achieve our purpose. We believe children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful. Our Vision for 2022: Together we will courageously change lives and reimagine service systems. We look forward to working with children, young people, families, carers, staff and partners to achieve this vision. Together.

The Opportunity

The Western Family Violence Service (WFVS) is the lead provider for the integrated family violence service system in the Central Highlands sub-region. We pride ourselves on being inclusive of all people regardless of their sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or those from culturally and linguistically diverse communities in addition to being deeply committed to reconciliation and recognition of the impacts of colonialisation on Aboriginal people’s experience of family violence.

The role of Senior Case Manager will join the Specialist Family Violence Casework team to provide short to medium term intervention to adult and accompanying child-victim-survivors and will focus on increasing victim-survivor autonomy, safety and recovery from family violence by working in partnership with clients and informal and formal support networks, informed by an intersectional feminist approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist family violence case management to victim-survivors of family violence to promote their autonomy, safety and recovery.
• Utilise advanced practice skills to maintain a case load of victims-survivors with complex and intersecting needs and/or who are at high-risk of severe harm from family violence
• Complete risk assessments, safety planning and develop support plan to aid in the recovery from violence as identified in the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) Framework.
• Provide support to the Specialist Family Violence Casework Team Leaders in leading best practice and providing limited case practice advice and support to the team.

About You

Apart from your amazing commitment and passion for providing collaborative trauma-informed case management services to clients impacted by serious family violence and with intersecting needs, you will be driven by working in a healthy supportive team environment that will benefit from your understanding of contemporary family violence interventions, including the role of intersectional feminism in understanding the gendered nature of family violence, the Multi Agency Risk and Management Framework (MARAM) and The Orange Door service model.

You will have a demonstrated commitment to inclusive practice and an understanding of the role of societal, cultural and systemic oppression and disempowerment in assessing, managing and recovering from family violence for people from varied and diverse communities, including First Nations people and those from CALD, migrant, and LGBTIQA+ communities.

Overall you will be a critical thinker that is able to analyse complex psychosocial and structural problems to provide workable solutions and have the skills to collaborate, negotiate and liaise with other agencies, government departments and the community inline with the Berry Street values and vison.

At a minimum you will hold a Bachelor level qualification in Social Work or recent employment in the family violence sector or equivalency met through the 7 Equivalency Principals inline with the minimum mandatory qualification requirements for specialist family violence practitioners.

The Benefits

• Additional salary packaging available for meals/accommodation.
• Flexible work arrangements and generous leave conditions.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), including access for staff members’ immediate family.
• Access to a comprehensive training calendar with career development and growth opportunities.

How to Apply

Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position to be submitted by 11pm on 12th October 2020.

Queries to Mandy Gambino – Senior Manager Family Violence (WFVS) on 03 5330 5000.

Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and National Police Check.

Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.

Aboriginal people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply.