Job description
- Duration: Part time 0.6 FTE till 30 June 2024, subject to funding review
- Do you want the opportunity to work for justice, choice and self-determination for people who have experienced complex trauma?
- First Nations People, LGBTIQA+ people, people with disability, people of colour, public housing residents or people with a lived experience are encouraged to apply
- DS is committed to child safety and strictly adheres to the Reportable Conduct Scheme for organisations. The safeguarding and wellbeing of our clients is our core focus. All staff must undergo thorough recruitment process including screening and providing evidence of current Working With Children Check and National Police Check
Drummond Street Services (DS) provides intersectional, trauma informed and recovery oriented, Complex Trauma Services. Our high quality, confidential, free, independent support services are for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse and the families and people with disabilities, their families and support workers.
Through our Redress Support Services and Restore – Victorian Redress Counselling Service, our Complex Trauma Service has a focus on supporting survivors safely to complete an application to the National Redress Scheme (NRS) and to provide counselling offered as an outcome of their NRS application.
We assertively engage people experiencing access barriers, marginalisation and/or discrimination, prioritising First Nations people, people of colour, and/or those identifying as LGBTIQA+, with a specific focus on public housing residents.
About the role
Drummond Street Services is seeking an experienced Complex Trauma Practitioner to join the Redress and Restore programs, on a part-time contract basis until the 30 June 2024 (subject to funding review). This role is based in both our Carlton and Geelong locations, with occasional travel to metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria as required.
Reporting to the Senior Complex Trauma Practitioner, this role will see you collaborate with a trans-disciplinary trauma informed team to ensure delivery of high quality, client-led counselling, therapeutic case work and advocacy services. A large portion of your work will be to support clients – therapeutically and practically – through the Redress application process.
You are a skilled practitioner, highly experienced in complex trauma counselling and casework, who is looking to become part of a team committed to social justice and intersectionality. You can share and build knowledge to support trauma responsive practice that centres the voice of survivors who are people with disabilities who have experiences of trauma due to violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation and experience institutional child services. You belong to LGBTIQA+ communities as well as other communities with whom DS assertively engages.
About Drummond Street Services
Drummond Street Services (DS) is a not-for-profit, non-denominational agency that has over 130 years in the development and delivery of innovative services that strengthen families and communities with a strong focus on evidence-based/informed practice and across the prevention, early intervention, treatment, and recovery spectrum of universal and targeted support. We supported survivors to tell their story to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and continue to support survivors to seek justice through the National Redress Scheme and Restore-Victorian Redress Counselling Service.
We have also supported people with disabilities, their families and carers make submissions to the recent Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. Learnings from the Royal Commission will help to inform Australian governments, institutions, and the wider community on how to prevent, and better protect, people with disability from experiencing violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation in the future.
Drummond Street’s Complex Trauma Service provides state-wide, trauma informed counselling, case work and advocacy services that are accessible, client-focused and meet the needs of people with disability and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse, their families, carers, support workers and advocates. The Service offers a model of support and advocacy that is flexible, compassionate, respectful, empowering, and holistic with the aim of addressing individual client needs and undertaking systematic advocacy. The Service centres a human rights model of disability and employs several staff who have disabilities and are also members of the LGBTIQA+ communities.
Selection Criteria: Essential
- Tertiary qualification in a relevant field (i.e., Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health) and along with other training and experience related to delivery of trauma informed counselling services for people who experience complex trauma, with a specific focus on people with disability and institutional child sexual abuse.
- Accreditation with a relevant professional body (e.g., APRHA, PACFA, AASW)
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience of delivering counselling and case work for people with disabilities, people who experience complex trauma and recovery approaches to intervention.
- A minimum of two years’ experience in the counselling, family services, the disability sector and/or mental health sectors. Demonstrate your genuine interest and commitment to collaborating with LGBTIQA+, First Nation, and people of colour in a way that is affirming.
- Demonstrated experience with providing interventions that support individuals and families with multiple and complex needs such as experiencing barriers to the NDIS, or DSP, complex communication, mental health, family violence and drug and alcohol issues.
Desirable
- Applicants who have a lived experience of disability are encouraged to apply.
- History of working with people with disability in a manner which centres human rights and intersectionality.
Application process
- All applications will be directed to our careers portal – Complex Trauma Practitioner, Redress & Restore Services
All applicants must provide a resume and covering letter addressing the following:
- Your knowledge and experience of delivering counselling for people with disabilities, people who experience complex trauma and
- Your history of working alongside LGBTIQA+ staff and clients in a way that is affirming.
Please contact Vicki Khouri on 9663 6733 or [email protected] to discuss your application further, using the subject line: Complex Trauma Practitioner – Redress and Restore Services enquiry via EthicalJobs.
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