• Excellent opportunity at Swinburne within our Safer Community Team
• Full-time, 12 month fixed-term position at our Hawthorn campus
• HEW 8 + 17% super and attractive staff benefits

About the Role

Are you passionate about creating a safer and more inclusive community? Swinburne University is looking for a dedicated and experienced professional to join our team as a Senior Safer Community Advisor.

As a Senior Safer Community Advisor, you will play a key leadership role within the Safer Community team. This is a fixed-term 12-month position designed to support the Manager, Safer Community, in focusing on strategic priorities, including the implementation of Swinburne’s Sexual Harm and Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Action Plan.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Behavioural risk assessment and management
• Supervision and operational support
• Record keeping and reporting
• Prevention and engagement initiatives
• Stakeholder engagement and representation

About You

To be suitable for this role you will need to have experience in the below key accountabilities:

• Strong interpersonal skills, including managing persons in crisis and those who are highly emotional, aggressive or suicidal
• Demonstrated skills and experience in working with a multidisciplinary team, including managing behavioural risks in a frontline service
• Experience providing peer support, mentoring or informal supervision in a team environment.
• Demonstrated skills in investigation, case analysis, case formulation and case management
• Highly-developed report-writing and presentation skills and proven ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualifications or progress towards postgraduate qualifications and extensive relevant experience; or extensive experience in areas of psychology, social work, legal or related disciplines and management expertise; or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.
• Registration and membership to applicable professional bodies, e.g., Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), Asia Pacific Association of Threat Assessment Professional (APATAP), Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW), etc.

About Swinburne University of Technology

Swinburne’s strategy draws upon our understanding of future challenges. We choose to build Swinburne as the prototype of a new and different university – one that is truly of Technology, of Innovation and of Entrepreneurship. We are committed to a differentiated university proposition in education and research.

To Apply

Please submit your CV and cover letter addressing your suitability for this position by clicking the 'Apply Now' button below. You will be redirected to Swinburne's website.

Please Note: Appointment to this position is subject to passing a Working with Children Check.

If you are experiencing technical difficulties with your application, please contact the Swinburne Talent Acquisition Team on [email protected] using the subject line: Senior Safer Community Advisor enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Swinburne offers flexible working options contained in our leave and parenting/carer policies to support work-life balance.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Swinburne has become a world-class university, driving social and economic impacts through science, technology, and innovation. As a dual-sector university, our vision is for people and technology working together to build a better world.

Central to our vision is our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer focused on attracting, retaining, and developing great talent. We work to remove barriers related to gender identity, culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, and age.

We strongly encourage applicants from diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Our Moondani Toombadool Centre leads our Indigenous education and culture at Swinburne, guided by community wisdom and leadership.

We support applicants with disabilities. Adjustments can be requested at any time during the recruitment process. For Reasonable Adjustment requests, including accessible formats for the PD, application form or any other document, please contact [email protected] or call +61 3 9214 3550.

Please note the above number and DCR email address are for disability or reasonable adjustments queries only. General enquiries about the role can be sent to [email protected] (general enquiries will not be answered by phone).

Victoria’s Commitment to Action: Improving international student employment outcomes.

As a signatory to Victoria’s Commitment to Action, Swinburne seeks to remove barriers to international graduate employment. We welcome and encourage applications from international graduates.

As a Circle Back Initiative Employer, we commit to responding to every applicant.

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