Located in Sale (Orange Door Support and Safety Hub), part-time, permanent

• Join a not-for-profit health care provider who is getting back to what matters
• Opportunity to provide counselling for women and children who are victim survivors of family violence that is client-centred, strength-based and trauma-informed.
• Total remuneration package dependent on qualifications and skills.

At Latrobe Community Health Service you’ll be part of a positive and passionate workplace. We’re dedicated to providing you with career opportunities through work that is rewarding and meaningful within the community.

The Specialist Family Violence Access, Intake & Assessment Practitioner (SIT) will work as part of a multidisciplinary team of practitioners within the Screening, Identification, and Triage (SIT) team to identify and prioritise the needs of people accessing The Orange Door

This function requires that:

• The risks and needs of all people in the family, including children, are considered individually and in the context of their family.
• People have choice and control through the process (unless this is not possible or appropriate).
• Aboriginal people and families can exercise self-determination.
• The Family Violence Multi Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) framework is applied, including use of the Tools for Risk Assessment and Management (TRAM). The safety and wellbeing of children is also assessed in line with the ‘Best interests case practice model’ (BICPM).
• The capacity and capability of the person, and each person in a family, informs all decisions.
• Barriers to and willingness to engage are considered at each interaction or decision, considering whether failure by The Orange Door/service to engage the person or family increases their level of risk or vulnerability

To be successful, you will require;

Mandatory:

1. Minimum Mandatory Qualifications Requirements:

As per the minimum mandatory qualifications requirements via https://www.vic.gov.au/mandatory-minimum-qualifications-specialist-family-violence-practitioners all candidates wishing to apply for this role must be able to demonstrate these specific requirements.

1. Current Victorian driver licence.
2. Latrobe Community Health Service complies with infectious disease control and immunisation requirements under legislation. This position is classified as a Health Care Worker B. Evidence of immunisation history must be provided prior to confirmed appointment.

For more information please contact Lisa Smith, Acting Manager Behavioural Health Programs on 5136 5244.

At Latrobe Community Health Service we want to help you get back to what matters. To see the full position description and to apply, click the Apply Now button.

We are an equal opportunity employer and therefore, we will consider all qualified applicants for employment. We are partnered with Job Access and pledged to Soldier On. We are a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and identities, LGBTIQ+ people, people with a lived experience of disability and service personnel and their families to name a few. We will make reasonable adjustments when required. We are a child safe organisation. Successful applicants will be required to obtain a satisfactory security clearance and an Employee Working with Children Check before we can make any offer of employment.