Be the Steady Hand in Someone's Storm
As our Advanced Practitioner, you show up with steadiness, compassion and clarity. This role is about being present when it matters most: for children, for families, and for the practitioners beside you.
Employee Benefits:
* 11 Wellbeing Days (to support worker well-being)- in addition to Annual Leave
* Above Award Salary of $110, $115, dependent on qualification and years of experience)
* Awesome Not-for-Profit Salary Sacrificing options of up to $15,899 per FBT year
* Excellent Learning & Development opportunities
* Portable Long Service Leave (from eligible organisations)
* Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for personal and professional wellbeing
* Additional Public Holiday Day at Easter (Tuesday)
About the Role:
As our Advanced Practitioner at The Orange Door (Warrnambool), you'll play a pivotal leadership role within a multidisciplinary team supporting victim survivors, adults who use violence, and families requiring support with child and family wellbeing. This is a senior practice role where your expertise directly shapes the quality, consistency and impact of service responses.
You'll respond to complex referrals, apply evidence-based family violence risk assessment and management frameworks, and lead thoughtful safety planning that keeps the needs, safety and voices of children and young people firmly at the centre. You will work to ensure adults using family violence remain visible and accountable, while actively engaging clients with appropriate supports and interventions.
In addition to direct client work, you'll provide mentoring, coaching and secondary consultation to less experienced practitioners, support the facilitation of team meetings, and contribute to a strong, reflective and collaborative team culture. You'll model high-quality practice, exercise sound professional judgement in complex situations, and play an active role in strengthening practice across the program.
This role is suited to an experienced, compassionate practitioner who is confident holding complexity, values accountability and child-centred practice, and is motivated by the opportunity to create meaningful, lasting change for individuals, families and the broader community.
Do your skills include:
* Demonstrated experience in leading practice within complex service delivery contexts, particularly multi-disciplinary and multi-agency approaches to the provision of services to vulnerable children, families and diverse communities.
* A strong knowledge and understanding of the drivers/causes of family violence and child and family vulnerability, as well as the child and family services and/or broader social services sector and their fundamental practices and theories.
* Sound knowledge of the range of community, welfare, education, and health services available, or demonstrated capacity to acquire this knowledge.
* Maintain accurate client records and service data as required, maintaining client privacy and confidentiality in accordance with legislation, policy and good practice.
Are your credentials:
* In this role, employees must meet the minimum qualification requirements mandated by the Australian government for Specialist Family Violence Practitioners (as prompted by Recommendation 209 of the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence).
* Hold a Bachelor of Social Work or other equivalent qualification (or are currently enrolled and working towards this)
* OR have minimum 5 years relevant professional experience and willing to undertake further study and be working towards the equivalent qualification by June 2026.
* OR a related qualification as per the mandatory minimum qualification requirements and willing to undertake further study and be working towards the equivalent qualification by June 2026.
* OR hold significant cultural knowledge and experience or lived experience, and have faced barriers to educational pathways and have a willingness to meet minimum or equivalent qualification within 10 years
* are considered exempt under the policy (practitioners who were part of the specialist family violence practitioner workforce prior to 2021.
* For more information and a quick guide to assessing your current qualifications in line with the policy please click here.
* Additional qualifications or experience in Family Violence, Child wellbeing or other related fields is preferred.
* Professional clinical experience is preferred.
* Current Drivers Licence.
About the Orange Door
A key recommendation of the Royal Commission into Family Violence was to establish a network of Support and Safety Hubs across Victoria. This was to provide a new way for women, children and young people experiencing family violence and families who need assistance with the care and wellbeing of children to access the service they need to be safe and supported. 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.
Brophy works closely with the Orange Door to build the capacity of vulnerable families and individuals to enable them to self-manage and be the best they can be through referrals to many of our program areas.
To read more about the Orange Door program please click here.
Diversity and Inclusion at Brophy:
Brophy is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that ensures safety and a sense of belonging for everyone. 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.
Our commitment extends to actively listening, learning, and evolving to become an accessible, inclusive, and secure organisation for all, encompassing First Nations peoples, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, individuals with disabilities, and those with culturally diverse backgrounds.
For further information on Orange Door positions click here or contact Jenny Hand (Manager – Family Violence & Child Wellbeing Intake) on
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