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Family Practitioner, Early Matters - Ballarat

Relationships Australia Victoria
  • Develop your skills and experience in this key early intervention services role.
  • Part-time, fixed-term contract until 30 June 2021 (22 hours per week).
  • Base $82k-$84kpa (pro-rata), superannuation, PBI salary packaging benefits.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, experienced family practitioner at our Ballarat centre to join Relationships Australia Victoria (RAV) in this important role with staff who have been delivering effective client-focused services and outcomes for over 70 years in Victoria.

About RAV

RAV is a valued provider of specialist family and relationship services. Our vision is for positive, respectful, safe and fulfilling relationships for all Australians. Our objective is to relieve suffering, distress and helplessness and to provide high quality, accessible and effective services for people with complex relationship issues. Our services and programs, which are provided from 16 centres across Victoria, include counselling, family dispute resolution, relationship education, family violence services, mental health services, senior relationship services and professional training. As a community-based, not-for-profit organisation with no religious affiliations, our services are for all members of the community, regardless of religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, lifestyle choice, cultural background or economic circumstances.

About the role

Reporting to the Senior Manager Western, your responsibilities include the provision of group work in a range of settings including kinders, schools, and other community-based settings, and the delivery of a brief home visiting service to families either in their homes or in a community setting. The purpose of the Family Practitioner role is to deliver primary prevention group work activities and early intervention services for children and parents as part of RAV’s Early Matters program.

This role is a part-time (three (3) days per week), fixed-term position based in Ballarat until 30 June 2021. There is a potential for extension or ongoing, dependent on funding. The successful candidate may be required to work evenings and Saturdays on a monthly basis.

Skills, experience and qualifications

  • Tertiary qualification in social work, psychology or similar.
  • Demonstrated experience and expertise working with children and parents, with the capacity to undertake group work interventions and a direct therapeutic home visiting service for families at risk.
  • Consistently and effectively engage and support parents in their parenting role using strengths-based and family-centred practice.
  • Knowledge of parenting practices that support parent-child relationships and an understanding of the importance of the “early years” and child development.
  • An understanding of common stressors and intergenerational issues that have the potential to impact on families, including family life cycle issues, as well as a range of therapeutic and supportive approaches.

The full position description is available below.

What we offer

You will receive a competitive remuneration package, ranged from $82k to 84k (pro-rata), plus superannuation and access to PBI tax-free salary packaging. RAV is an ‘employer of choice’ in the community sector who provides best practice professional development, training and supervision and work and life balance conditions and benefits.

RAV is committed to building and supporting an inclusive and diverse workforce and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, those from cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTIQA+ communities and people with disabilities. We are committed to the safety of our clients and staff and promote a child-safe work environment. We require all staff to have a satisfactory national police check and working with children check. RAV is a public benevolent institution.

If you have issues accessing the application portal, please email us at [email protected], using the subject line: Family Practitioner, Early Matters - Ballarat enquiry via EthicalJobs.

For specific queries about this position contact Shelley Fallowfield, Coordinator Early Matters by calling 0409 497 041.

Applications close on Monday 8 June 2020.

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