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Family Violence Senior Worker

VincentCare Victoria

The Role:

The Olive’s Place team provides support and accommodation to women and their children who have fled their homes due to family violence. The team provide information, advocacy, and case management support to women and children in crisis.

VincentCare promotes a strengths based, client centred approach within its Case Management Framework, embodied in the Homelessness Recovery Model. As the Senior Worker you will provide leadership, guidance, mentoring and role modelling to all team members within the Olive’s Place program.

The role will also oversee and contribute to the team’s 24/7 on-call roster, as well as supporting a reduced case load of clients.

VincentCare Victoria:

VincentCare Victoria is an award-winning organisation established to provide a range of accommodation and support services to people that are facing disadvantage throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria.

Our aspiration is to be the leader in providing care, hope and advocacy for those facing disadvantage. Our purpose is to create opportunities and lasting change for the most marginalised. VincentCare is well equipped to provide a continuum of services that effectively meet the needs of people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

Northern Community Hub provides integrated services in the community housing sector, along with family violence services, case management services and youth outreach services.

Working with VincentCare:

A key strategic priority is attracting and retaining skilled and committed employees aligned to our values. VincentCare has over three hundred dedicated, talented and enthusiastic staff working across a range of programs and services and offers a number of benefits including:

  • Career Development opportunities
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Salary Packaging
  • Choice of Superannuation fund
  • Family friendly and flexibility
  • Study leave
  • The Ozanam Scholar Bursary

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to the principles of social justice and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion.

Selection Criteria:

Qualifications - Essential

  • Appropriate tertiary qualification in social work (required).

As per the minimum mandatory qualifications requirements (Royal Commission into Family Violence (2015) Recommendation 209) https://www.vic.gov.au/mandatory-minimum-qualifications-specialist-family-violence-practitioners) all candidates wishing to apply for this role must be able to demonstrate that they meet minimum qualification requirements or equivalency principles, i.e. candidates are required to hold a Bachelor of Social Work or other equivalent qualification; or are considered exempt under the Policy; or have a minimum of 5 years relevant professional experience; or a related qualification as per the mandatory minimum qualifications requirement; or hold significant cultural knowledge and experience, lived experience, and/or have faced barriers to educational pathways (note Mandatory Requirements).

  • MARAM Comprehensive Family Violence Specialist Training (desired and preferred)

Experience - Essential

  • Experience (minimum 2 years) in case planning, support and leadership within a family violence setting
  • Understands and can demonstrate partnership initiatives and deliverables and an ability to work with and alongside other programs and organisations
  • Can demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as advanced interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work in a crisis environment with clients presenting with complex needs and behaviours

Qualities – Essential

  • High level personal insight and self-reflection

How to apply:

Applicants must submit their CV together with a detailed response to each of the key selection criteria in the position description which is available below.

Phone enquiries may be made to Michelle Olley on 0447 816 097 or 1300 556 122.

VincentCare welcomes applications from people from diverse cultural & linguistic backgrounds including people who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Aboriginal and/ or Torres Strait Islander.

Applications for this role are open to female candidates (including trans, gender diverse and intersex women) only under Section 28 of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010.

All appointments within VincentCare Victoria are subject to satisfactory completion of a police check and character/performance reference checks. Police checks will be undertaken for the selected candidate prior to any job offer being confirmed. Police checks are also undertaken on a periodic basis during the period of employment.

All appointments are subject to disclosure of any relevant employment history of formal disciplinary action for improper or unprofessional conduct taken by current or previous employers or any other integrity body within or outside Australia.

The incumbent for this position must have and maintain a current Victorian Working with Children Check or equivalent.

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