• Support a dynamic and growing not-for-profit organisation with a caring, supportive and professional organisation culture
• Attractive employee benefits: including salary packaging, leave loading and additional paid leave over Christmas/New Year
• Part Time | Boronia and Box Hill

About Us

Eastern Community Legal Centre (ECLC) is a multidisciplinary legal service that works to prevent problems, progress fair outcomes and support the wellbeing and resilience of communities and community members in Melbourne’s East.

About the role

The Intake and Assessment Officer - Mabels & WELS will be a key member of ECLC's Family Violence Initiatives (FVI) Mabels/WELS Team, providing trauma-informed, client-focused intake services for the Mabels and WELS programs - including identifying priority clients and undertaking initial risk assessments and safety planning.  

This role requires exceptional organisational and administrative skills, excellent written and oral skills, an understanding of data collection and management systems and analysis, and confidence in the use of ICT-based devices, applications and software. It also requires an understanding of trauma and the impact of family violence on women and children.

About You

We are seeking an experienced, highly flexible, resourceful and self-motivated professional to provide a high quality, trauma-informed intake service for ECLC's Mabels and WELS Programs.

You will have demonstrated experience working effectively with vulnerable client groups and those with complex needs, have a commitment to the principles of equity, access and social justice, and have an awareness of the legal sector and appropriate referral pathways.

You will be a compassionate, warm and empathetic person, able to engage well with a diverse range of people, community groups and key agencies, and able to calmly work under pressure when there are competing work priorities. Ideally you also have legal database knowledge (eg: CLASS), and experience and skills in mental health first aid.

Specifically, you will have:

• Relevant qualifications in administration, business, community services or similar
• Minimum 2 years' experience in similar role, within the community and/or community legal sector

If you want to contribute to the success of an organisation working towards a community that respects and upholds the values of human rights, fairness and justice, please apply by forwarding a:

• Cover letter,
• CV; and
• responses to the key selection criteria contained in the position description;

By clicking on the Apply button on this page.

Please click the description folder icon under job details to download the position description.

For enquires please contact Trish Reck - Program Manager-Family Violence Initiatives at [email protected] using the subject line: Intake and Assessment Officer - Mabels & WELS - Boronia / Box Hill enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Applications must clearly address the selection criteria. Applications that do not address the selection criteria will not be considered