About Relationships Australia
Relationships Australia NSW (RANSW) provides a safe, judgement-free environment where individuals, couples and families can address the critical matters impacting their relationships, and their lives.
  
What you’ll do
Provide therapeutic casework to the current/former partners and family of MBC (Men’s Behavioural Change) clients. The position works as part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributes to program and service development, and supports the centre including promoting services to clients and stakeholders. Therapeutic Services to clients are provided in Arabic. 

In addition, you’ll

• Provide therapeutic casework for the current/former partners and families of MBC program participants focusing on support and advocacy to victims/survivors of DFV in Arabic
• Provide casework intervention as required and in consultation with the Team Leader
• Apply person centred, trauma informed, MBC practice and strength-based approach to working with clients
• Maintain service to clients from referral to closure as appropriate, including all clinical and administrative tasks
• Assess the risks to victims and needs of children and other family members
• Facilitation of groupwork programs face to face in Arabic

The details

• 3 days per week
• Contract to 30/6/24
• Based at Blacktown
• $44 – $49 per hour plus super, leave loading, salary packaging benefits

What you’ll do

• Formal graduate qualifications in Social Work, Psychology or other relevant disciplines
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including bi-lingual skills fluent in English as well as fluent Arabic
• Casework experience in working with families that have experienced family domestic violence
• Experience in facilitating group programs is desirable
• Qualifications in counselling, trauma or other relevant disciplines is preferred
• Completion (or working towards completion) of relevant training in MBC practice i.e. Grad Cert in MBC (Individual and Group) is desirable

Why work with us?

• Make a genuine difference to the relationship wellbeing of individuals, couples and families; everyday!
• Strong clinical and supervision framework to deepen our practice excellence
• Work alongside people who truly care about what you achieve together
• We offer many benefits including flexible working options, salary packaging, additional leave days, Employee Referral Reward program and fitness passport
• We value inclusion and belonging. We want a workforce that is reflective of all the communities we serve. To strengthen our inclusive practice we have employee action groups: Accessibility, Reconciliation, Gender, Sex & Sexually Diverse and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
• We are committed to deepening our relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We have a stretch Reconciliation Action Plan to guide our efforts to build strong relationships, increased employment, and enhanced respect between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other communities

Next Steps
Interested? Apply today as we want to move quickly with this recruitment.

It is a condition of employment from 1 January 2022, that employees who are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccination must be fully vaccinated to perform duties at any of our workplaces. If you are not medically eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19, you must provide Relationships Australia NSW with acceptable evidence of having a health condition for which obtaining a COVID-19 vaccination is contraindicated.