Specialist Family Violence Response Worker – Child Protection Partnership
Job No:
Berry3304
Location:
Ballarat
- Ballarat location
- Full time, permanent position
- Salary package equivalent to $101,000pa (inclusive of super and salary packaging)
- Additional $10,500pa motor vehicle allowance
For over 140 years, Berry Street has adapted to a changing world, and we will continue to adapt to achieve our purpose. We believe children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful. Our Vision for 2022: Together we will courageously change lives and reimagine service systems. We look forward to working with children, young people, families, carers, staff and partners to achieve this vision. Together.
The Opportunity
The Western Family & Domestic Violence Service is an entry point for Police Referrals covering the Victoria Police Western Division 3 areas, which includes: Ballarat, Moorabool, Pyrenees, Ararat, Golden Plains and Hepburn. The service provides a range of support services to women and their children who have experienced family violence, including an After-Hours Crisis service across the Western Region.
This Specialist Family Violence Response Worker – Child Protection Partnership position was a recommendation which came from the Royal Commission into Family Violence where it was highlighted that family violence is present in a significant proportion of Child Protection cases.
Key Responsibilities
The primary objectives of the role include;
- Enhance Child Protection workforce knowledge and capacity in identifying and responding to family violence to keep victim survivors safe and perpetrators accountable.
- Strengthen collaborative practice by building networks and Child Protection specific referral pathways.
- Facilitate systemic changes that enable effective and sustainable service integration and responses for family violence.
To download the position description, please click here.
About You
You will have a tertiary qualification (minimum Bachelor level) in Social Work, Human Services, Welfare or a related discipline and the capacity to support improved engagement by Child Protection with both victims and perpetrators. You will have experience in developing and maintaining relationships with other stakeholders in a multi-disciplinary environment and an awareness of religious, cultural and language issues that compound the experience of family violence.
The Benefits
- Additional salary packaging available for meals/accommodation.
- Flexible work arrangements and generous leave conditions.
- Access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), including access for staff members’ immediate family.
- Additional $10,500pa motor vehicle allowance.
How to Apply
Applications including resume and statement addressing the key selection criteria for the position to be submitted by 11pm on Tuesday, 22 October 2019. Queries to Denise Sheridan, Manager Family Violence on 5330 5000.
To download the key selection criteria template, please click here.
Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and National Police Check.
Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify with a sexual and or gender minority identity. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.
Aboriginal people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply.