• Permanent Ongoing Position- 23 hours 

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

The Sexual Assault Crisis Line (SACL) is a service of the Royal Women’s Hospital. It is a government-funded organisation that provides a state wide after-hours telephone crisis service to victim/survivors of sexual assault.

SACL is the state-wide sexual assault service in Victoria which provides immediate crisis care coordination to survivors of recent sexual assault, telephone crisis counselling support and advocacy, information and referral to victim /survivors of recent and past sexual assault, support and information for non-offending family and friends, and professional consultation and debriefing to CASA Counsellor/Advocates and other professionals.

The SACL Counsellor/Advocate is responsible for the provision of telephone crisis counselling support, information, referral and advocacy services to survivors of childhood and adult sexual assault, their non-offending families or friends, professionals and other community members. The SACL Counsellor/Advocate is responsible for coordinating an immediate crisis care response with CASA services throughout the state to survivors of recent sexual assault.

Your contribution  

The successful applicant will join a committed team in the provision of a high quality after hours state wide crisis service for victim survivors of sexual assault. 

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

• To participate in a team that provides full cover of the after hours roster working across evening, overnight and weekend shifts
• To provide high quality, after hours state wide telephone crisis counselling services, information, support and referral to survivors of both past and recent sexual assault and to non-offending family and friends
• To co-ordinate crisis care services to survivors of recent sexual assault across the state
• To provide consultation and debriefing to CASA on call staff delivering after hours crisis care responses
• To provide secondary consultation to professional practitioners

About you

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

• Tertiary qualifications in Social Work or equivalent qualification, eligibility for membership with AASW or equivalent
• Extensive experience in providing direct service crisis counselling support and advocacy to victim/survivors of sexual assault
• Availability to participate in an after-hours roster which includes evenings, overnights and weekends each week
• A solid commitment to working within a feminist rights/advocacy framework
• The ability to make decisions and work independently, seeking support and consultation where appropriate
• An ability to balance competing demands and prioritise
• Computer literacy
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Our offering

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the exceptional in your everyday.

Our staff benefits program includes salary packaging, on-site car parking and childcare (subject to availability), alongside a range of discounted financial, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits provided by our staff benefit partners. To learn more, please visit: www.thewomens.org.au/careers/why-work-at-the-womens/staff-benefits/

We are proudly White Ribbon and Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters. 

The Women’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and social inclusion. We welcome applications from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, people with lived experience of disability and people who identify as LGBTI.