Specialist Family Violence Practitioner

• SCHCADS Level 5 – plus super and salary packaging
• 1 x Full Time, Maximum Term Contract until 30 June 2024
• Brimbank / Keillor Downs Office Location

Join a team dedicated to innovation and change in the Family Violence sector.

Role Purpose

The Specialist Family Violence Practitioner is an integral member of the Family Violence Team and delivers high quality short as well as longer term intensive case management services to women and children who have experienced, or are currently experiencing, family violence, including women who choose to remain in the relationship.

The role contributes extensive knowledge and understanding of family violence to outreach case management and supports clients accommodated in emergency accommodation and transitional housing, delivering valued services and outcomes.

The position provides client-centred casework, utilising the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework (MARAM) and a comprehensive risk and needs assessment of women and children through trauma informed, systems and developmental frameworks. The Specialist Family Violence Practitioner will develop agreed case plans with women and children with multiple and complex needs, bringing about outcomes which promote safety, stability and recovery from family violence through a coordinated care team approach.

As part of the Family Violence Team, participation in a crisis response roster, duty work roster and community-based outreach are some of the requirements of this role. This role will also involve intensively working with women and children in emergency accommodation after they have escaped family violence to assist them into securing safe accommodation. The Specialist Family Violence Practitioner will also be requested to provide support as required to the Family Violence Program.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver high quality outreach case management services to women and children who have experienced or are experiencing family violence through trauma informed, systems and developmental frameworks
• Facilitate a multi-disciplinary team approach, providing a collaborative and holistic response for women and young people impacted by family violence, working toward identified goals
• Undertake MARAM comprehensive risk assessment, needs assessment, safety planning and case planning with women and childrenCoordinate referrals for support and liaise with specialist services as required
• Support victim survivors accommodated in different type of accommodation settings including emergency accommodation
• Work within the MARAM framework and the FVISS/CISS information sharing scheme
• Demonstrate a commitment to the Child Safe Standards
• Understand the impact of family violence on families and provide a trauma-informed response
• Provision of high-quality case support work and case plan for victim survivors including managing high risk and complex needs
• Facilitate financial independence and access brokerage as required
• Work in partnership with families to develop and regularly review individual case and safety plans, ensuring clients are actively engaged in all decision making and planningParticipate in meetings as required, including team meetings and care team meetings
• Provide secondary consultation and advocacy on the client’s behalf to link In with other relevant supports
• Participate in the duty and crisis response roster
• Prepare reports and other written documentation such as minutes, housing and funding applications, correspondence etc to meet professional standards