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Immediate Assistance Practitioner - Family Violence Services

Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) Limited

  • Leading community services organisation
  • Salary packaging and competitive sector remuneration
  • Part time 0.7 FTE | Maximum term to June 2021 | Based at Dandenong
  • Passionate team environment with supportive leadership

About the opportunity

In light of the COVID-19 response, we have a new opportunity for a social worker to join our Family Violence Services Program. The position is part time 53.2 hours per fortnight, and initially maximum term to 30 June 2021.

The Family Violence Services Program provides case management and counselling support to women and children impacted by family violence. The program supports clients with psycho-education, court support, navigating intervention orders, and liaising with other services and referral pathways that assist with building safety and wellbeing.

As an Immediate Assistance Practitioner you will support women and children with:

  • Immediate, short-term assistance over the phone and through outreach where appropriate
  • Initial risk and needs assessments and safety plans
  • Sourcing of temporary accommodation
  • Funding applications and referrals to other services

View the full position description here

About you

To be successful in your application you will meet the person specification in the position description including having a relevant tertiary qualification in a field related to Social Work or Psychology.

Please address the following questions related to the person specification, to be uploaded as part of your application:

  • Describe examples of how you have assessed risk to families
  • Summarise your knowledge and applied use of the family-centred approach, and family strengthening and empowerment models of practice in the context of family violence
  • Provide examples of your strategies for organisation and time management to demonstrate your ability to work within an immediate and short-term assistance model

How to Apply

If this sounds like you, find out more or apply today. Please upload the following as part of your application:

  • Cover letter
  • Current resume
  • Responses to the key selection criteria questions above

Get in touch

  • Maria Gullaci - Team Leader, Family Violence Services - 03 8792 8999
  • Robyn Barton – Manager, Child FIRST & Family Violence Services - 03 9704 8377

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

Visit us: unitingvictas.org.au 

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and Working With Children Check (in Victoria) and/or Working With Vulnerable People Check (in Tasmania) prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

We work in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australia’s First Peoples and as the traditional owners and custodians of this land. We celebrate diversity and value the lived experience of people of every ethnicity, faith, age, disability, culture, language, gender identity, sex and sexual orientation. We welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse and non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people at our services. We pledge to provide inclusive and non-discriminatory services.

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