* Max Term contract due to internal employee progression
* Salary packaging up to $18,550 tax free per year
* Additional 4 days of gifted leave, study leave opportunities
* Competitive above-award salary, SCHADS Level 5 - $102,791.52
About The Role
We are currently seeking a Specialist Family Violence Practitioner to join our Bayside Peninsula Family Violence Team. This role delivers high quality, trauma informed case management to women and children who are experiencing or have experienced family violence.
As a Specialist Family Violence Practitioner, you will provide intensive, client-centred casework using the MARAM framework and a trauma informed, systems and developmental approach. You will support clients across various accommodation settings, including emergency and transitional housing, and work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to promote safety, stability, and recovery.
This role includes participation in a crisis response and duty roster, and involves outreach work in the community and in emergency accommodation settings.
This role is located in Hastings (VIC), with outreach across the bayside peninsula. Max Term contract until March 2027
Key Responsibilities
* Deliver outreach case management to women and children impacted by Family Violence
* Conduct MARAM risk and needs assessment
* Partner with clients to develop safety plans
* Coordinate referrals and liaise with specialist services, ensuring clients are actively engaged in all decision making and planning
* Support victim survivors in emergency and transitional accommodation
* Facilitate access to financial support and brokerage
* Participate in crisis response and duty rosters
* Advocate for clients and collaborate with care teams
* Maintain accurate case notes and reporting in line with program standards
About you
* Appropriate tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, or a related tertiary discipline is essential
* Experience in Family Violence outreach case management and risk assessment
* Knowledge of the MARAM framework and information sharing schemes (FVISS/CISS)
* Experience working with high-risk clients and and those with complex needs and behaviours
* Strong communication, advocacy, and collaboration skills
* A current Driver’s License, Police Check, and Employee Working with Children Check
Family Violence Minimum Mandatory Qualifications under Recommendation 209
As per the minimum mandatory qualifications, all candidates wishing to apply for this role must be able to demonstrate that they:
* are considered EXEMPT under the policy OR
* hold a Bachelor of Social Work or other equivalent qualification OR
* have minimum 5 years relevant professional experience, OR a related qualification as per the mandatory minimum qualification requirements. OR
* hold significant cultural knowledge and experience or lived experience, and have faced barriers to educational pathways
For more information on qualification pathways, visit: https://www.vic.gov.au/mandatory-minimum-qualifications-specialist-family-violence-practitioners
Benefits
* Salary packaging - up to $15,900 in tax-free pay per year, plus entertainment up to $2650
* 4 days gifted leave at Christmas and Easter (pro rata)
* Up to 100 hours of paid study leave (where relevant to role)
* Hybrid working arrangement with opportunity to wfh 1 day a week
* 12 weeks paid parental leave (primary career)
* Additional leave through purchase leave pathways
* 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 programs 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
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: 3rd May 2026
To view the position description, please visit https://hrdoc.goodshep.org.au/doc/Specialist Family Violence Practitioner.pdf
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