Brief Description
* Above award - SCHADS Level 6.1 - $112,304.77 (plus super). Max term 12 March 2027
* Salary packaging up to $18,550 tax free per year, Hastings location
* Gifted leave at Christmas and Easter, paid parental leave
About The Role
The Senior Specialist Family Violence Practitioner delivers high quality face to face and over the phone support to women and children who are experiencing or have experienced family violence across the Bayside Peninsula Region. The role involves extensive knowledge and understanding of the family violence response to support victim survivors with complex needs. The caseload held by this role involves high risk and complex needs requiring a deep understanding of MARAM and working with victim survivors and their children. The position provides client-centred and trauma-informed casework with an intersectional lens.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide a specialist family violence response to women and children who are/have experienced family violence.
* Undertake ongoing MARAM comprehensive risk and needs assessment of women and children including completing risk analysis and working on risk mitigation strategies.
* Ensure that the children's voices are heard by assessing their risks and needs with them when appropriate to do so.
* Complete risk management plan and liaise with other services and stakeholders to increase safety of women and children experiencing family violence.
* Provide psychoeducation about family violence and the impact of its trauma on children.
* Complete outreach and provide material aid that promotes safety and addresses the clients' immediate needs.
* Develop, in collaboration with the victim survivor, a comprehensive holistic case plan while applying an intersectional lens.
* Produce high quality documentation including mapping the perpetrator's behaviour and its impact on the adult and children victim survivors.
About You
* Tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology or a related tertiary discipline meeting Rec209 Mandatory Qualification requirement or a Graduate Certificate in Family Violence.
* Experience working in the family violence sector.
* Demonstrated experience using MARAM to assess risk, needs and protective factors of women and children, risk mitigation including safety planning and determining appropriate referral pathways.
* Demonstrated ability to apply a client-centred and trauma-informed framework to the various presentations of women and children.
* Experience working with diverse communities experiencing multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantage (e.g. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities; people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities; people with disability; people from LGBTI communities).
* Demonstrated experience working with women and children presenting with complex needs and behaviours (e.g. trauma, substance abuse, mental health, parenting issues, disability).
Benefits
* Salary packaging - up to $15,900 in tax-free pay per year plus entertainment up to $2,650.
* 4 days gifted leave at Christmas and Easter (pro rata).
* Up to 100 hours of paid study leave (where relevant to role).
* 12 weeks paid parental leave (primary career).
* Additional leave through purchase leave paths.
* Employee Assistance Program, a free and confidential counselling service.
* Eligible for participation in the portable long service leave program.
About Us
Our 2023-2027 strategy outlines the world we want to see and our role in advancing it. We aspire for all women, girls, and families to be safe, well, strong, and connected. We strive for equity, dignity and social justice for women, girls and families by collaborating globally and acting locally, supporting our communities in Australia and New Zealand to thrive.
We want women, girls and families to live full and dignified lives, have dignified income and enjoy financial wellbeing. We aim to provide place‐based, people‐centred, holistic services while working at the system level to achieve bold and audacious reform. We currently offer microfinance programs and products, financial counselling and coaching, family and domestic violence support services, family and youth programs, playgroups, education programmes and community houses. These services are complemented by research and strong advocacy to address the underlying structural causes of injustice, exclusion, and inequality.
Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand (GSANZ) respects the dignity of all people, draws strength from, and celebrates the diversity of our community. At GSANZ, we strive for an inclusive culture where all identities feel safe and that they belong. We welcome and actively seek applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people of all sexual orientations and gender expressions and identities, people with disability, and culturally and racially marginalised people. Each person's individual decision regarding disclosure will be fully respected.
How To Apply
To view the position description please copy and paste the following link into your browser: https://gsanzhrdoc.blob.core.windows.net/doc/PD%20-%20Senior%20Specialist%20Family%20Violence%20Practitioner.pdf
Please click 'Apply' to complete your application. Please upload your resume and a brief cover letter addressing the requirements of the role. Applications are considered as they are received.
APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 29 March 2026
This is a max term role until 12 March 2027
We recognise that applicants may hesitate to disclose their need for adjustments during recruitment due to concerns about discrimination. To address this, Good Shepherd asks all candidates about any required accommodations, with the intention of minimizing any sense of exclusion or discomfort associated with requesting adjustments.
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Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand is a Child Safe employer. Employment is subject to satisfactory referee checks, a current employment working with Children Check, National Criminal History check and proof of the right to work in Australia.
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