Job description
About Relationships Australia
Relationships Australia NSW (RANSW) provides a safe, judgement-free environment where individuals, couples and families can address the critical matters impacting their relationships, and their lives.
What you’ll do
You’ll provide high quality services to families experiencing post-separation conflict who need assistance reaching agreement on parenting arrangements or resolving issues related to finances and property settlement. Services include risk screening and assessment, preparation for family dispute resolution and mediating joint sessions using a range of specialised approaches including Child Inclusive Practice.
You’ll provide information to clients about separation, counselling and legal processes and will make referrals as required. Your work will be guided by the Family Law Act and Regulations as relates to your role.
The details
- Permanent, 3 days per week
- Based at Macquarie Park
- Extra annual days between Christmas and New Year
- Excellent professional development, regular clinical supervision
- Approximately $44-$49 p/h + super + leave loading + salary packaging benefits
What you’ll bring
- Registration with the Australian Government Attorney General’s Department Register of Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners is essential
- A tertiary background in Law, Social Sciences, Social work, or Mediation/Dispute Resolution
- Demonstrated high level skills in family dispute resolution, including assessments and mediation interventions
- Demonstrated ability to work in a child focused approach
- Strong understanding of relationship dynamics, domestic and family violence, child safety, trauma informed practice, diversity awareness and mental health and wellbeing
Why work with us?
- Empower families to achieve an amicable outcome for their children and property
- Strong clinical and supervision framework to deepen our practice excellence
- Work alongside people who truly care about what you achieve. Grow with us as a team
- We offer many benefits including salary packaging, additional leave days, fitness passport and Employee Referral Program
- We value inclusion and belonging. We want a workforce that is reflective of all the communities we serve. To strengthen our inclusive practice we have employee action groups: Accessibility, Reconciliation, Gender, Sex & Sexually Diverse and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD)
- RANSW is committed to deepening our relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We have a stretch RAP to guide our efforts to build strong relationships, increased employment, and enhanced respect between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other communities
Next Steps
Interested? Click ‘Apply Now’ to submit your application online today as we will be interviewing shortly.
It is a condition of employment from 1 January 2022, that employees who are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccination must be fully vaccinated to perform duties at any of our workplaces. If you are not medically eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19, you must provide Relationships Australia NSW with acceptable evidence of having a health condition for which obtaining a COVID-19 vaccination is contraindicated.