**Multidisciplinary team providing an intake function to vulnerable families**:
- **Increase take-home pay with access to $15,900 salary packing benefits**:
- **Full time | Maximum Term indirect parental leave cover until 16/10/2025**:
- **Based at Sunbury**
**Your new role**:
As an Orange Door Practitioner, working in a multidisciplinary integrated Orange Door agency team, you will deliver quality, safe, and effective responses to children, young people, and families experiencing family violence. You will deliver intake support via phone, within the Orange Door site and through outreach visits.
In addition, you will:
- Actively manage a caseload
- Delivery screening and triage, assessment, crisis responses, service planning, targeted interventions, allocation and coordinated referrals
- Work collaboratively to support integrated risk assessment and planning
- Refer clients to services within the broader service system and provide them information and support
**About the program**:
The Orange Door Program brings together workforces from Community Service organisations, Aboriginal Services, Family Safety Victoria and DFFH, to deliver an integrated practice model and a consolidated intake point for:
- Women, children, young people, and families who are experiencing or have experienced family violence
- People who use violence
- Families requiring support with the care, development and wellbeing of unborn babies, infants, children, and young people
Uniting focuses on providing services to vulnerable families who require extra support with the care, development and wellbeing of unborn babies, infants, children and young people.
**Perks of working at Uniting**:
Our work isn’t easy, but it matters. Work with people who care as much as you.
In addition to your salary **(SCHADS Level 5) + super**, you can access the following.
- Access salary packaging to increase take-home pay.
- Enjoy a 10% discount at Uniting Early Learning, or 60% for centre staff!
- Up to 10 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers (4 for secondary).
- Free counselling with our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Enjoy 25% off at Uniting Op Shops.
**Your skills and experience**:
You thrive in a dynamic environment, assessing and responding to children and families presenting with a range of issues at a time when they need support most. You love that no day is ever the same and feel energized when you find referral pathways and empower individuals to be involved in developing their own support arrangement.
You will bring:
- Bachelor of Social Work or equivalent as per the mandatory minimum qualification requirements for specialist family violence practitioners
- Experience, skills, and capabilities in child, youth, and families welfare
- Well-developed risk assessment and management skills
- Understanding of the broader service system referral pathways
- Sound understanding of the MARAM Framework, Best Interests Principles and the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005
- Current Driver’s License valid in Victoria
View the position description **here**.
**How to apply**:
Click **APPLY**to submit your interest.
**About Uniting**:
At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse range of services across Victoria and Tasmania.
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📌 Practitioner Orange Door
🏢 Uniting Vic.Tas
📍 Sunbury