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ABOUT US

The Salvation Army is one of Australia's largest and most-loved charities, helping thousands of Australians every year find hope in the midst of all kinds of personal hardship. The Salvation Army offers the opportunity to use your professional skills and expertise to make a real difference in the lives of people who need help most.

Are you:

• A high performing specialist family violence practice leader with extensive experience working with highly sensitive and complex family violence cases?
• Experienced in supporting and developing multi-disciplinary practitioners to work effectively with victim survivors including children, and perpetrators?
• Passionate about service reform, integrated service delivery and improving outcomes for women, children and families?
• A team player, with strong stakeholder relationships and partnership approach?

The Advanced Family Violence Practice Leader is based at The Orange Door - Bayside.

Auspiced by The Salvation Army, the Advanced Family Violence Practice Leader will work in close partnership with The Orange Door Leadership Team, within a matrix model of management, to lead family violence practice and support secondary consultations with internal and external service providers.

The Advanced Family Violence Practice Leader will be responsible for providing practice leadership on risk assessment, risk management, case planning and providing expert authoritative advice to The Orange Door workforce in relation to complex family violence cases and perpetrator interventions. The Advanced Family Violence Practice Leader will proactively build specialist evidence-based family violence knowledge and capability across The Orange Door workforce in line with The Orange Door Service Model and Integrated Practice Framework.

This role is a six month max term contract with potential for extension to twelve months to cover parental leave.

The Practice Leader we require for this role will have:

• Professional clinical experience and relevant qualification(s) in social work, welfare, psychology or a related discipline
• A strong knowledge and understanding of the drivers/causes of family violence and child and family vulnerability, as well as the child and family services and/or broader social services sector and their fundamental practices and theories is required.
• Demonstrated experience in leading family violence practice within complex service delivery contexts, particularly multi-disciplinary and multi-agency approaches to the provision of services to vulnerable children, families and diverse communities is required.
• WWCC
• Police Check
• Drivers licence

For a copy of the Position Description please contact: Manager - Giselle Bailey 0417 594 455 or go to the Salvos Careers Website - Job Reference: R4595.

The Salvation Army is an Equal Opportunity Employer who provides an inclusive work environment and embraces the diverse talent of its people.

The Salvation Army is a child safe organisation that is committed to ensuring the well being of children and young people, and protecting them from harm. All child facing roles will require the successful completion of a Working with Children Check. Applicants for all other roles require a mandatory National Police Check.

We value Integrity, Compassion, Respect, Diversity, and Collaboration.