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Senior Practitioner - Queerspace and Family Violence

Drummond Street Services

About the role

Drummond street services (ds) delivers responsive, intentional and evidence-based prevention, early intervention and treatment programs, within a public health framework for a range of communities, including a range of family violence programs. We strive to build and enhance the innate resilience of children, young people, adults, their families and communities and to increase protective factors. Growth in our services has led to a range of new exciting opportunities to join our team, including a Senior Practitioner, queerspace and Family Violence. Please look out for other current drummond street employment listings.

Working within queerspace and the Family Violence Response Team, the Senior Practitioner will lead and provide high quality therapeutic and family violence services to LGBTIQ+ people and their families, and other clients, within DS’ Family Services Model of Practice. Based primarily in Coburg and Carlton, with three direct reports, you will also support the team to provide family violence secondary consultation, reflective practice, training and co-work to other staff and programs across our organisation. Ideal candidates are passionate, committed to social justice and cultural safety, are trauma informed and are affirmative of all children, young people, families, adults and communities.

A highly competitive salary package plus salary sacrifice opportunities will see you well remunerated.

Your responsibilities

  • Lead, supervise and collaborate with a trans-disciplinary team to ensure delivery of high quality, client led counselling, family violence and support services across queerspace and the Family Violence Response Team
  • Supervise staff who support LGBTIQ people, women, trans, gender diverse and young people who have enacted family violence and victims of family and intimate partner violence
  • Lead and inspire high performance teams by engaging staff, setting clear direction and performance expectations
  • Contribute to and foster a positive and affirmative team environments
  • Contribute to the preparation of reports for funders
  • Ensure performance targets are met and that data and evaluation material is collected and input into our client information systems consistently and in a timely way

About you 

  • Use collaborative leadership and management techniques to support and empower team members
  • Bring experience and confidence to your leadership, ensuring our staff group reflects the communities we service by upholding cultural safety for staff and in our service practices
  • Highly skilled and experienced family violence practitioner and Senior Practitioner across work with people who enact harm and victims-survivors
  • Demonstrate understanding of a gendered analysis of family and intimate partner violence and the limitations and challenges it offers when working with LGBTIQA+ communities and women, transgender, gender diverse people and young people who are enacting harm
  • Demonstrate a strong understanding of child and adolescent development, whole of family practice, recovery-oriented trauma informed practice and the impact of structural disadvantage on individuals, families and communities, such as racism, sexism, Islamophobia, homophobia or transphobia

Selection Criteria

Please address the following Essential Selection Criteria for your application to be considered.

Essential

  • Minimum Degree level qualification in Social Work or the equivalent.
  • Highly skilled and experienced family violence practitioner and practice lead across work with people who enact harm and victims-survivors.
  • Demonstrate knowledge and application of LGBTIQA+ specialist and mainstream therapeutic and supportive approaches for families and specifically children and young people with particular focus on early intervention and preventative family-based interventions.
  • Demonstrated understanding of working with LGBTIQA+ communities and women, transgender, gender diverse people and young people who are enacting harm and victim-survivors.
  • Ability to contribute to the organisations culture, people, research and best practice, along with high level written skills.
  • Demonstrate your genuine interest and commitment to collaborating with First Nation, LGBTIQ+, and people of colour. Please use examples.
  • A minimum of three years’ experience in the family services, family violence and/or mental health sectors
  • Victorian driver’s license

Desirable

  • You identify as belonging to LGBTIQA+ communities, as well as other communities with whom ds assertively engages 

A position description is attached.

To discuss your application, please contact Jemma Mead on 03 9663 6733 or email [email protected] using the subject line: Senior Practitioner - Queerspace and Family Violence enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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