Organisation : Kara Family Violence Service
Location : Melbourne (City of Monash)
Work type : Full-time
Profession : Community Services, Social & Support Work
Sector : Community Support Services, Women
Salary type : Hourly
Salary : $85,000- $110,000
Application closing date : 18 Apr, 2025
About the organisation
about us
Kara Family Violence Service is a specialist family violence service that provides crisis accommodation, transitional housing and outreach support to women and children experiencing family violence. We have a vacancy for a specialist family violence practitioner (refuge) to join our friendly team. Family violence experience in a refuge environment essential.
The successful applicant will provide holistic and strengths based case management support to women, those who identify as women, and children experiencing family violence, including risk assessment and safety planning, from our core and cluster site in the City of Monash. The role also involves outreach and transitional housing support with clients in the community and the provision of rostered backup (by phone) after a qualifying period.
About the role
Reporting to the Manager, Team Leader and Senior Practitioner, the successful candidate will receive competitive remuneration according to the SCHADS Award, the Level dependent on experience (in the range of $85,000-$110,000), plus superannuation and access to salary packaging, training and professional development opportunities including EAP , supervision and reflective practice.
The position is full time , 76 hrs per fortnight.
Kara Family Violence Service employs women only- EEO Exemption:H112/2022
Please note the Mandatory Requirements.
The requirements of REC 209 – safeandequal.org.au/working-in-family-violence/minimum-qualifications.
About you:
- hold a Bachelor of Social Work or other equivalent qualification, OR
- have a minimum 5 years relevant professional experience, OR a related qualification as per the mandatory minimum qualification requirements, OR
- hold significant cultural knowledge and experience or lived experience and have faced barriers to educational pathways inline with the requirements of REC 209.
- Minimum of 2-3 years experience in a high security refuge setting
- Working with Children check
- National Police Check (international police check if required)
- Eligibility to work in Australia
- Current unrestricted Victorian driver’s license with good driving record
- Experience in refuge preferred.
Kara FVS values diversity. Women from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally diverse and LGBTQI+ backgrounds and those with a disability who meet our position description requirements are encouraged to apply.
A position description is attached.
How to apply
All applicants are required to address the key selection criteria as identified in the position description and submit their resume and a covering letter, addressed to the Manager.
No late or incomplete applications will be accepted.
Please quote in application: Specialist Family Violence Practitioner(refuge) via Pro Bono Australia.
Sector: #Community_Support_Services, #Women
