• Part time (0.8) role fixed term for 12 months
• Parkville location, with multiple public transport options available
• $102,091.60 - $116,646.40 base + salary packaging + super + 5 weeks annual leave

The Royal Women’s Hospital is one of Australia’s oldest and most distinguished tertiary hospitals dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of women and newborns, offering specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health. Our goal is to be the best place to work, learn and contribute, and to provide exceptional experiences for our patients and consumers.

About our team

The Women’s Family Violence team is responsible for leading the Safer Care Victoria funded Strengthening Hospital Responses to Family Violence (SHRFV) Program, Commonwealth funded service implementation and evaluations and associated projects. These initiatives aim to increase staff competence, develop and share resources and build hospital capacity across Victoria to respond to family violence, and improve outcomes for patients and staff who experience family violence.

About the role

As the Senior Clinician Family Violence, you will work closely with the Project Officer Family Violence and the Senior Program Manager Family Violence to support metropolitan and rural health services to complete the embedding of the SHRFV model internally and externally. You’ll play a role a role in the provision of consultation and training to other professionals, including delivery of community education, and support with maintenance of iCOPE (antenatal screening) and Clinical Champions and Contact Officers, as well as delivering training and developing and maintaining resources.

A regular day will see you:

• Build strong working relationships with staff across the Women’s to strengthen family violence identification and response through the delivery of family violence clinical education, training and consultation
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff in antenatal clinics to support the change management process related to practice in family violence screening transitioning to the digital screening platform
• Support capacity building as related to the Clinical Champions project, and maintain components of the project
• Contribute clinical experience and expertise in the implementation, coordination and delivery of training and education resources and materials to staff in SHRFV hospitals for continued support of clinical practice

This role is available until June 2025 at 0.8EFT, however there may be the potential to offer full time (1.0) hours.

About you

You will be someone with excellent interpersonal and communication skills who has experience in engaging and managing relationships with a diversity of stakeholders. You’ll have the ability to work independently without supervision, show initiative and apply a solution focused lens in order to work to deadlines and manage competing priorities.

To be successful in this role you’ll bring with you:

• A degree in Social Work plus eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) or other relevant professional body
• Knowledge and understanding of the relevant legislation and practice frameworks relating to family violence practice, including the Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme (FVISS), Child Information Sharing Scheme (CISS) and the Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework (MARAM)
• Formal training completed in MARAM Risk Assessment and experience conducting risk assessments and safety management
• Experience working clinically in a hospital system

Our benefits

At the Women’s you will enjoy a culture that is collaborative, supportive and passionate about learning. We have a strong sense of purpose, and engage in meaningful work every day. We offer our people a range of rewarding benefits, including:

• Up to $11,660 in salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted financial, lifestyle and health options, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
• Public transport options at our doorstep and end of journey facilities for cyclists
• Onsite childcare centre and breastfeeding rooms
• Mentoring, learning and career development opportunities
• Five weeks annual leave (pro-rata) and 17.5% leave loading

Inclusion and belonging

The Women’s celebrates, values and supports a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects our vibrant community. We encourage applications from anyone identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also welcome anyone who identifies as LGBTQIA+, linguistically, culturally and/or gender diverse, people with disability, and people of any age to apply for our roles. We are committed to gender equity principles, and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women and family violence matters. We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited.

Join us!

If you feel this role is right for you we warmly invite you to apply, and encourage your early application. All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check, a Working with Children Check and three COVID-19 vaccinations, and may include a range of additional vaccinations including influenza, as required by the Department of Health.

Should you need assistance or require any adjustments or accommodations to fully participate in the application or interview process, you are welcome to reach out to the contact person listed. We acknowledge that not all applicants will meet the full list of selection criteria outlined, and wherever possible we will consider applications where relevant experience can apply.

For more information, please view the Position Description for this role.

If you have any enquiries, please contact Amanda Morris on 03 8345 3083 or [email protected], using the subject line: Senior Clinician Family Violence enquiry via EthicalJobs.