Family Violence Practitioner Role
This challenging and purposeful role involves supporting families, listening without judgment, and guiding people toward safety and stability.
The Orange Door Practitioner will work in a dynamic, multidisciplinary team to provide a single, integrated entry point for people seeking support with family violence, parenting challenges, or child wellbeing concerns.
Key Responsibilities
* Conduct risk and needs assessments, develop safety plans using evidence-based tools, and work closely with victim-survivors, children, and men as fathers - ensuring all voices are heard and respected.
* Provide secondary consultation and expert advice, help keep adults using violence accountable and in view, and refer families to the right supports to ensure safety, stability, and long-term wellbeing.
Required Skills and Qualifications
A strong knowledge and understanding of the drivers/causes of family violence and child and family vulnerability is essential. The ideal candidate will have highly developed skills to undertake risk assessment and management plans, specific to or with transferability to the areas of family violence and child wellbeing and welfare.
A sound knowledge of the range of community, welfare, education, and health services available, or demonstrated capacity to acquire this knowledge, is also required.
Demonstrated ability to appropriately engage and work with Adults Using Family Violence (AUFV) who have been violent and who may present with a range of complex issues that contribute to their choice to use violence and /or are present due to their violence.
Benefits
* 11 Wellbeing Days (to support worker well-being)
* Above Award Salary
* Awesome Not-for-Profit Salary Sacrificing options
* Excellent Learning & Development opportunities
* Portable Long Service Leave
About The Orange Door
The Orange Door Initiative was implemented across Victoria as the intake point for Family Violence and Child Wellbeing issues. The safety of victim-survivors is the Orange Door's first priority.
The hub will also help to maintain a focus on perpetrators, so the risk they pose can be assessed and they are held to account for their behaviour.
At Brophy, We Value Diversity and Inclusion
We embrace individuals of diverse races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, religions, abilities, and nationalities, recognising the richness that varied experiences bring to our efforts in supporting individuals and building stronger communities.