Join our Family Services Team.

• Full Time Ongoing positions based at Dandenong
• Multidisciplinary team providing an intake function to vulnerable families
• Increase take-home pay with access to $15,900 salary packing benefits

Your new role

As an Orange Door Practitioner, working in a multidisciplinary integrated Orange Door agency team, you will deliver quality, safe, and effective responses to children, young people, and families experiencing family violence. You will deliver intake support via phone, within the Orange Door site and through outreach visits.

In addition, you will: 

• Actively manage a caseload
• Delivery screening and triage, assessment, crisis responses, service planning, targeted interventions, allocation and coordinated referrals
• Work collaboratively to support integrated risk assessment and planning
• Apply for brokerage on behalf of clients when required
• Refer clients to services within the broader service system and provide them information and support

About the program

The Orange Door Program brings together workforces from Community Service organisations, Aboriginal Services, Family Safety Victoria and DFFH, to deliver an integrated practice model and a consolidated intake point for: 

• Women, children, young people, and families who are experiencing or have experienced family violence
• People who use violence
• Families requiring support with the care, development and wellbeing of unborn babies, infants, children, and young people

Uniting focuses on providing services to vulnerable families who require extra support with the care, development and wellbeing of unborn babies, infants, children and young people.

Benefits of working at Uniting

Our work isn’t easy, but it matters. Work with people who care as much as you.

In addition to your salary (SCHADS Level 5) + super, you can access the following.

• Access salary packaging to increase take-home pay.
• Need extra time off? Buy additional leave to increase annual leave!
• Enjoy a 10% discount at Uniting Early Learning, or 60% for centre staff!
• Up to 10 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers (4 for secondary).
• Free counselling with our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Enjoy 25% off at Uniting Op Shops.

Your skills and experience

You thrive in a dynamic environment, assessing and responding to children and families presenting with a range of issues at a time when they need support most. You love that no day is ever the same and feel energized when you find referral pathways and empower individuals to be involved in developing their own support arrangement.

You will bring:

• The minimum qualification for this role is a Bachelor of Social Work or equivalent qualification
• OR have a minimum of 5 years relevant professional experience or have a related qualification relevant to child and family welfare as per the mandatory minimum qualifications for family violence practitioners
• OR hold significant cultural knowledge and experience or lived experience, and have faced barriers to educational pathways as per the mandatory minimum qualifications for family violence practitioners
• Current Victorian Driver’s Licence
• Experience, skills, and capabilities in child, youth, and families welfare
• Well-developed risk assessment and management skills 
• Understanding of the broader service system referral pathways 
• Sound understanding of the MARAM Framework, Best Interests Principles and the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 

View the position description here.

How to apply

Click APPLY to submit your interest.

If this role sounds like a good fit for you, please apply soon. We'll review applications as they come in and may close the ad early.

For any questions, reach out to Robyn Barton on 0403 448 583 for a chat.

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.

Through the recruitment process, we will ask you for personal information. Disclosure is optional, however, it can help us support you better. We invite you to tell us if you identify as Aboriginal, a person with disability, from a diverse background or LGBT+. You will be given an opportunity in the application form to request additional support. We welcome the opportunity to discuss how we can support you.

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