Join our Family Services Team.

• Provide essential support to women and children impacted by family violence
• Increase your take home pay with up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits
• Full-time, Maximum term role until 30 June 2025, based in Broadmeadows

About the opportunity

Uniting delivers a comprehensive family approach to family violence, addressing men who perpetrate family violence and the women and children affected. As part of the Integrated Family Violence Program (IFVP), you will work closely with various other community organisations to address the safety, risk, and support needs of women and children facing family violence.

In this role, you will conduct risk assessments, safety planning, and case management for women and their children impacted by family violence. The role also involves duty work, offering secondary consultations to professionals and individuals and making referrals as needed.

What’s on offer

Join an organisation where we don’t just provide a service. We use our connections, our size, our scale, and our knowledge to push into places where we feel like we should be doing more.

In addition to receiving a salary (SCHADS Level 5) and superannuation, you’ll also receive 17.5% leave loading and an ability to increase your take-home pay by accessing up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits.

Paid parental leave (up to 10 weeks) is available for eligible employees.

Receive 10% discount on the childcare subsidy gap fee when using a Uniting Early Learning service or centre.

About you

You are looking to join an organisation that truly supports vulnerable Victorians and Tasmanians to improve their lives.

To be successful in this role, the ideal candidate will have:

• A Bachelor of Social Work or equivalent in line with the Family Safety Victoria mandatory minimum qualification requirements for specialist family violence practitioners
• A current Driver’s Licence valid in Victoria
• Demonstrated experience in risk assessment and ongoing risk assessment and monitoring
• Demonstrated experience in Safety Planning for women and their children
• An understanding of the key issues involved for women and children experiencing Family Violence
• Demonstrated experience in Family Violence case management
• Extensive knowledge of Family Violence and working within a feminist framework
• Knowledge and experience in a range of intervention strategies and frameworks working within a Family Violence context
• Demonstrated understanding of the feminist framework

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How to apply

Click APPLY to submit your interest. We’ll be reviewing applications as they come through and conducting interviews prior to applications closing. Please send your application through as a priority as we’re keen to engage with someone.

If you have any questions about the opportunity, please contact Alison Harris – Team Leader Mens Behaviour Change Program on 0456 773 084.

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse range of services across Victoria and Tasmania.

Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org 

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 relevant Working with Children Check in your State prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

Uniting is also committed to equal opportunity and ensuring the workplace is reflective of the community. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability.