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Case Manager - (Weekday) Family Violence First Response

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About Women’s Health West

Women’s Health West provides specialist family violence services to women and their children. We also run prevention programs that promote equity and justice for women and girls in Melbourne’s west.

Our work has actively contributed to improving the health, safety and wellbeing of women and their children in the western metropolitan region of Melbourne since 1988. Due to the current workforce requirements, we require applicants seeking casual to permanent full-time employment.

Our Family Violence First Response (FVFR) program is currently recruiting for a fixed-term case manager to support the team in the wake of COVID-19.

About the role

The family violence first response (FVFR) program has been designed to ensure that a high-quality crisis response service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to women and their children across the western metropolitan region experiencing family violence. The daily responsibilities of a weekday case manager include, but are not limited to:

  • Respond to and triage Victoria Police (L17) and intake referrals
  • Complete client risk assessment and safety planning
  • Referral and liaison with internal case management and other services including police, child protection and safe steps
  • Support women attending court

This position are available on a fixed term basis for 12 months. The position is be part time, EFT 0.9 and paid at WHW EA Level 4, pay point negotiable dependent on experience (ranges from 72K to 76K per annum pro rata EFT) + 9.5% superannuation and salary sacrificing.

Why join Women’s Health West?

Women’s Health West is a feminist organisation and culturally aligns to feminist values and practices. Women’s Health West’s staff enjoy numerous benefits, including working with a professional and dedicated team of women, ongoing professional development and training, flexible working conditions, and access to an Employee Assistance Program. We also offer considerable benefits through our Enterprise Agreement.

Women’s Health West has a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we work with. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity, ethical practice, and the principles of cultural diversity and social inclusion. Women’s Health West has a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), which is endorsed by Reconciliation Australia.

We welcome applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds and experience, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities, and people who identify as LGBTI.

For further information, please contact Gracie (Coordinator - People & Culture) on either [email protected], using the subject line: Case Manager - (Weekday) Family Violence First Response enquiry via EthicalJobs, or 03 9689 9588 ext. 303.

All appointments are made subject to the candidate providing a current satisfactory National Police Certificate conducted by the Victoria Police and a working with children check. You also need to provide international police check if you have worked overseas within the last ten years for a minimum of twelve months.

Women’s Health West is an equal opportunity employer with VCAT Exemption No. H119-2017, to employ only women, and to employ women from specified culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

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