Senior Specialist Family Violence Counsellor

Berry Street; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 104,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave loading 17.5%

Salary packaging

Professional development

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Job summary

Berry Street in Preston seeks a Senior Specialist Family Violence Counsellor to deliver trauma-informed counselling to adult victim survivors. You will work within Take Two and Berry Street Yooralla’s program, contributing to safety, recovery and client-centred care.

The role involves counselling, consultation, reflective practice and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to improve outcomes for victims and their children.

Qualifications

• Specialist family violence counselling experience.
• Strong knowledge of Victorian family violence frameworks.
• Ability to collaborate across services and teams.
• Bachelor level qualification in Social Work or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provide single-session, short-term and medium-term counselling to victim survivors.
• Deliver trauma-informed interventions to support safety and recovery.
• Facilitate therapeutic groups promoting healing from family violence.
• Provide specialist consultation and secondary support to colleagues.
• Contribute to reflective practice and multidisciplinary collaboration.
• Apply specialist family violence knowledge to client-centred practice.

Skills

Specialist counselling

Family violence practice

Stakeholder engagement

Collaboration skills

Reflective practice

Education

Bachelor level qualification in Social Work or equivalent

Job description

Senior Specialist Family Violence Counsellor

Join a Leading Trauma-Informed Service Delivering Specialist Therapeutic Support to Victim Survivors of Family Violence.

Take Two is a statewide specialist therapeutic service supporting children, young people, adults and families impacted by trauma, abuse, neglect, disrupted attachment and family violence.

As a Senior Specialist Family Violence Counsellor, you'll deliver therapeutic counselling to adult victim survivors while contributing your expertise through consultation, reflective practice and multidisciplinary collaboration.

The Opportunity

• Preston location on Wurundjeri Country
• Multiple opportunities available| Permanent and Fixed-term
• FTE ranging from Part - Time 0.6 to Full time
• Parental leave cover
• $115k pro rata + Super and Salary Packaging

Working across both the Take Two therapeutic service and Berry Street Yooralla's specialist Family Violence Program, you'll deliver trauma-informed counselling and therapeutic support as part of an integrated service that places safety, recovery and client choice at the centre of practice.

Our Family Violence Program provides specialist support to victim survivors and their children, to remain safely connected to their communities and move towards lives free from violence. Through collaborative, person-centred practice, we help individuals navigate the emotional and practical impacts of family violence while strengthening wellbeing, resilience and independence.

This is an opportunity to apply your specialist family violence expertise beyond direct counselling. Alongside therapeutic work, you'll provide consultation, contribute to reflective practice and support colleagues working with victim survivors across a range of service settings. You'll join a highly skilled multidisciplinary team committed to delivering best-practice therapeutic responses and improving outcomes for victim survivors and their families

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide single-session, short-term and medium-term counselling to victim survivors who have experienced family violence.
• Deliver trauma-informed and strengths-based therapeutic interventions that support recovery, safety and empowerment.
• Facilitate therapeutic groups that promote healing and recovery from the impacts of family violence.
• Provide specialist consultation and secondary support to colleagues working with victim survivors across the organisation.
• Contribute to reflective practice, multidisciplinary collaboration and ongoing practice development initiatives.
• Apply specialist family violence knowledge to support safe, effective and client-centred practice.

About You

We are looking for individuals with specialist family violence experience, strong therapeutic counselling skills and the ability to analyse and respond to the complex issues experienced by victim survivors.

You'll be confident working collaboratively across services, providing specialist consultation to colleagues and contributing to a culture of reflective, evidence-informed practice.

You will have

• Specialist counselling and therapeutic assessment experience.
• Strong understanding of family violence practice.
• Well-developed stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills.
• Sound knowledge of Victorian family violence frameworks and legislation
• Hold a minimum Bachelor level qualification in Social Work or recent employment in the family violence sector or equivalency met through the 7 Equivalency Principles in line with the minimum mandatory qualification requirements.

Please see https://www.vic.gov.au/mandatory-minimum-qualificationsspecialist-family-violence-practitioners for further information.

Our Benefits

• 17.5% leave loading!
• Salary packaging benefits to increase your take-home pay.
• Ongoing learning and professional development opportunities.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), including access for staff members’ immediate family.

We believe in diversity, inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of the Victorian community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings, and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies.

We encourage applications from people with lived experience of disability. You'll receive adjustments and support throughout the whole process — from the application stage to starting in the workplace. If you require the position description in a different format or any accommodation or assistance during the application and interview stages please contact the person listed on the ad or alternatively email ***********@berrystreet.org.au

Berry Street Yooralla 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 as LGBTIQA+. 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.

Please Note;the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a NDIS Screening Check, Working with Children Check and National and International Police check (if required) and NDIS training.