• Duration:  Full time
  (1.0 FTE) till 30 June 2024, with option to extend dependent on funding
• First
  Nations People, LGBTIQA+ people, people with disability, people of colour,
  public housing residents or people with a lived experience are encouraged to
  apply
• DS is
  committed to child safety and strictly adheres to the Reportable Conduct Scheme
  for organisations. The safeguarding and wellbeing of our clients is our core
  focus. All staff must undergo thorough recruitment process including screening
  and providing evidence of current Working With Children Check and National
  Police Check.
• Applicants who have a lived experience are encouraged to
  apply 

About the role

Drummond Street Services (DS) deliver early intervention case work, counselling and group
support to individuals, families and communities, using a developmental and
whole of family, life course approach. The therapeutic family violence
practitioner will work within a dedicated LGBTIQA+ family violence team to
provide individual and group interventions to people using or experiencing harm
in a family violence context. Ideal candidates are passionate, committed to
social justice and cultural safety, are trauma informed and are affirmative of
all children, young people, families, adults and communities.

Your responsibilities

• Deliver therapeutic case management services according to
  the DS’s practice model, attending to client-centred processes and goals across
  a broad range of domains of well-being
• Provide therapeutic case management support, individual and
  group interventions to clients in the Futures Free from Violence and Living
  Free from Violence programs that support women, trans, and gender diverse people
  who have used force and/or violence in family and intimate partner
  relationships, offering opportunities to work towards change.
• Provide queer sensitive and affirmative therapeutic case
  management services to LGBTIQA+ clients and their families experiencing and/or
  enacting family or intimate partner violence, mental health issues, harmful AOD
  use, financial or housing insecurity
• Use your expertise and knowledge in working with clients to
  identify risk factors, the impact of the abuse, and their current needs and
  protective factors.
• Help clients to identify and build increased safety within
  their family environments and relationships. 
• Assist with housing, financial/income, education and
  employment needs
• Complete applications for brokerage funds on behalf of
  clients
• Assist clients in building social and community supports and
  connections
• Input quality case records into relevant client case
  management record systems (DS client data base, IRIS and SHIP)
• Engage in a reflective practice model of exploring practice
  questions, dilemmas, tensions and surprises alongside other practitioners.
• Deliver case management services to DS clients and their
  families as required as part of the family violence response to clients and
  communities.

Selection Criteria – Please address the following in your
application to be considered.

Essential

• Tertiary qualification in Social Work or equivalent
• Demonstrated ability to provide case management
  interventions to clients using violence/ experiencing violence with positive
  client outcomes
• Previous experience of running groups/ good understanding of
  group theories
• Knowledge of and/or experience in working with LGBTIQA+
  communities
• Demonstrated understanding of the needs, issues and
  sensitivities of people from diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal, LGBTIQA+
  and culturally and linguistically diverse people and communities
• Demonstrated experience of working with families with
  complex needs such as family violence, drug and alcohol and mental health issue
• Demonstrated capacity to work within integrated,
  collaborative and systemic approaches
• Demonstrated organisational skills including the ability to
  meet deadlines and prioritise work tasks
• Demonstrated capacity to work creatively, show initiative,
  contribute ideas and be active in a supportive team environment in an agency
  working to support individual and family relationships
• A strong personal/professional support network that promotes
  resilience

Highly Desirable

• Belong to LGBTIQA+ communities as well as other communities
  with whom DS assertively engages

Application process

• Applications close at midnight on Sunday 1 October, 2023
• All applications will be directed to
  our careers portal – Therapeutic Family Violence Practitioner
• All applicants must include a resume with a cover letter
  addressing all the key selection criteria for the position 

For further information please contact Mengrui Li on 9663
6733 or [email protected]   

To review the PD please visit the careers page
on our website