About us

Relationships Australia Victoria (RAV) is a community-based, not-for-profit organisation with no religious affiliations. Our vision is for positive, respectful, safe and fulfilling relationships for all Australians. For more than 75 years, we have been delivering high quality family and relationship support services, and we now support more than 20,000 clients every year. We have over 400 dedicated employees working from 21 centres across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria.

About the role

Reporting to the Senior Manager Southern Melbourne, your responsibilities include direct client counselling to individuals, couples, children and families, as well as providing individual and group clinical supervision to employees, making professional judgements, offering feedback, support and challenging staff to ensure continuous improvement. In doing so, you will assist in providing effective and efficient high-quality services and programs in alignment with RAV’s contractual obligations and strategic direction.

This role is located at our Cranbourne centre. The successful candidate will be offered a permanent, part-time position working 3 days per week including a regular evening shift on Tuesdays (12noon to 8pm). The base salary range is $122,234 (pro-rata) per annum, with access to salary packaging benefits up to $18,800 and superannuation.

About you

• Tertiary qualifications in psychology, social work, or counselling with further graduate qualifications in mental health, family violence, counselling and family therapy.
• Completed formal supervision training.
• Significant experience undertaking clinical supervision in a similar working environment.
• Highly developed and demonstrated communication skills, with a particular emphasis on providing constructive and proactive feedback in relation to contemporary practice and improvement.
• Sound judgement and problem-solving skills, an ability to contribute to the planning and development of the service and a capacity to manage change.
• Experience in working with family violence, mental health, child protection and relevant service sectors.

We provide

• Competitive salary packaging as RAV is a public benevolent institution
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements.
• Generous leave entitlements, and gratis days over the Christmas/New Year period.
• Professional development and training.
• Best practice clinical supervision.
• Career progression opportunities.

Candidates can view the position description attached, contact Jackie Blake, Senior Manager Southern Melbourne on 0429 028 030 for specific queries.

RAV is committed to developing an inclusive and diverse workforce. We encourage applications from First Nations peoples, people from under-represented culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, asexual (LGBTIQA+) communities, and people living with disability. We are committed to the safety of our clients and staff and promote a child-safe work environment. We recognise the lifelong impacts of childhood trauma and recognise those who had children taken away from them.