• Mt Helen, Ballarat location, Wadawurrung Country
• Part Time Contract (12 months, 3 days per week)
• FTE Base rate $88k pro rata for PT, 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 Specialist Family Violence Practitioner 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

• The primary objective of the Specialist Family Violence Practitioner will be to deliver family violence case management to victim-survivors of family violence, to promote their autonomy, safety and recovery.
• Complete risk assessments, safety planning and develop support plans to aid in the recovery from violence, as identified in the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) Framework.
• Work collaborative in a team of specialist family violence practitioners under the supervision of the specialist family violence casework team.

About You

You will have passion and drive for the sector with experience in the provision of crisis and medium-term cases management intervention to adult and (their) child victim-survivors who have experienced family violence.

An 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.

Demonstrated experience in providing collaborative trauma-informed case management services, including to clients impacted by serious family violence and with intersecting needs.

And to wrap it all up you will be a committed passionate team player that loves to collaborate and build strong long lasting relationships with key stakeholders, and be a master at critical reflection and analysing complex psychosocial and structural problems to provide workable solutions.

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 16 October 2020.

Queries to Margaret Quinn – Program 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.