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Orange Door Practitioner
- 521007
- Pakenham, VIC, 3810
- Child, Youth & Families
- Permanent Full Time
- Multidisciplinary team providing an intake function to vulnerable families
- 10% gap discount for childcare services with Uniting Early Learning services
- Increase take-home pay with access to $15,900 salary packing benefits
- Permanent full position based at Pakenham
About the opportunity
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
What’s on offer
In addition to receiving a salary equivalent to SCHADS Level 5 and superannuation, you’ll also receive 17.5% leave loading and the ability to increase your take-home pay by accessing up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits.
Uniting has an option for additional purchased leave to increase your annual leave entitlements.
Receive 10% discount on the childcare subsidy gap fee when using a Uniting Early Learning service or centre and a 25% discount off donated goods at Uniting Op shops.
About you
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:
- Bachelor of Social Work or equivalent as per the mandatory minimum qualification requirements for specialist family violence practitioners
- 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
- Valid and current Driver’s License
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’ve questions about the opportunity, please contact Heidi McLellan – Orange Door Team Leader on 1800 271 170.
Click here to view the position description.
About The Orange Door
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.
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.
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