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Orange Door Senior Practitioner

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Dandenong, VIC, 3175

Child, Youth & Families

Permanent Full Time

Opportunity to lean into Team Leadership responsibilities as required
Mentor and support new team members and social work student placements
Permanent full time position | Based at Dandenong

Your new role

As an Orange Door Senior 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. Working across more complex presentations across a range of issues incl. substance abuse, behaviour change, disability, etc. you will deliver intake support via phone, within the Orange Door site and through outreach visits.

As Senior Practitioner you will lean in on and be supported with Team Leadership responsibilities as needed. You will act as proxy in various integration, agency and funder meetings and also be involved in audits, quality improvement activities and other projects and tasks.

In addition, you will:

Manage an active caseload
Mentor and support newer team members including being responsible for Social Work student placements
Delivery screening and triage, assessment, crisis responses, service planning, targeted interventions, allocation and coordinated referrals
Work collaboratively to support integrated risk assessment and planning
Refer clients to services within the broader service system and provide them information and support

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.

Benefits of working at Uniting

In addition to receiving a salary equivalent to SCHADS Level 6 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.

Uniting has an option for additional purchased leave to increase your annual leave entitlements.

Eligible employees receive a 10% discount on the childcare subsidy gap fee when using an Uniting Early Learning Service and up to 10 weeks paid parental leave.

Your skills and experience

You are keen to progress your career into leadership and seek an organisation that will provide you the support and opportunity. You enjoy imparting your knowledge and experience to newer practitioners through mentoring activities.

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 particularly working with complex cases
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

View the full 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, please reach out to Gillian Wealands – Team Leader Orange Door on 0435 021 028 or Robyn Barton – Manager Orange Door 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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