Advance Family Violence Practice Leader

• Heidelberg location, Wurundjeri Country with travel to Epping location required
• Full time, Permanent role
• $124K pa + 11.5% superannuation + salary packaging up to $15,900 pa

Your Opportunity

The Advanced Family Violence Practice Leader is a clinical leadership position and is based at The Orange Door NEMA in Heidelberg. The fundamental function of The Orange Door is to:

• Be a more visible and accessible contact point for service users requiring specialist support.
• Provide help for people to identify family violence and child wellbeing issues.
• Support to access justice and legal support.
• Offer advice based on contemporary risk assessment tools and guidance.
• Provide specialist support and tailored advice for victims, families and children, and perpetrators.
• Connection and coordination of access to support.
• A system wide view of service capacity, client experience and outcomes.

The Northern Specialist Family Violence Service (NSFVS) is the lead provider for the integrated family violence service system in the Northern Metropolitan sub-region. The NSFVS provides support services to victim survivors of family violence and their children inclusive of cis gendered heterosexual women and, their children; and people from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer Community (LGBTIQ+) and their children. 

Key Responsibilities

The primary objectives and responsibilities of the position include:

• Provision of specialist family violence expertise that drives an integrated response by supporting practitioners working with victim survivors of family violence and their children.
• Key membership of the practice leadership group comprising a second Advanced Family Violence Practice Leader, Integrated Practice Leaders, Child & Young Person's Practice Leader, Aboriginal Practice Leader and a Men’s Family Violence Practice Leader.
• Support practitioners to deliver high quality, safe and effective response to victims of family violence and their families.
• Work as part of a team working collaboratively to improve capability, integrated practice and provide specialist knowledge.
• Specific portfolio responsibilities delegated to the role to develop capacity in the team to respond to presenting co morbidities.

Your skills and experience

Our ideal candidate will have a minimum Bachelor level qualification in Social Work or equivalency met through the 7 Equivalency Principles in line with the minimum mandatory qualification requirements. Please see https://www.vic.gov.au/mandatory-minimum-qualificationsspecialist-family-violence-practitioners for further information.

• Experience working with victim survivors and their children
• Experience in comprehensive risk assessments
• An understanding of the Child, Youth and Families Act 2007 and the Family Violence Protection Act 2008.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and might even have established links with key stakeholders within the Northern Metropolitan Region.
• Professional registration and extensive experience working with mental health and/or dual diagnosis.

Extra Benefits

• A culture that values and support professional development
• $15,900 pa (pro rata) Salary Packaging + Additional Salary Packaging for meals/accommodation
• Flexible work arrangements
• 10 weeks paid parental leave + other generous leave conditions!
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program, with access for staff's immediate family
• Leave loading 17.5%

How to Apply

Applications including resume and cover letter are to be submitted by Midnight on Friday 25th April 2025

Queries to Kelsey Minto - Acting Program Manager NEMA Orange Door on 03 9450 4700 

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