Specialist Family Violence Practitioner - Community Hub

VincentCare Victoria; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Employee Assistance Program

Social justice values

Job summary

VincentCare Victoria is seeking a Specialist Family Violence Practitioner to join our Community Hub on a part-time, ongoing basis. This on-site role focuses on crisis intervention, short-term case management, and recovery-oriented support for victim-survivors, including children, experiencing family violence.

You will work within risk management frameworks (MARAM, FVISS, CISS) to assess safety, advocate for clients, coordinate with local services, and participate in after-hours crisis response.

Qualifications

• Experience in family violence crisis intervention and case management.
• Knowledge of risk assessment, trauma-informed care, and related frameworks.
• Ability to work in crisis-driven environments with complex caseloads.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Must have a recognised degree in social work, family violence or community services.
• Valid Victorian Driver Licence.

Responsibilities

• Provide crisis intervention and short-term case management to victim survivors.
• Deliver person-centred, strengths-based support respecting diverse identities.
• Apply MARAM, FVISS, CISS frameworks to assess and manage risk.
• Advocate and coordinate with local services to ensure safety and pathways to recovery.
• Participate in after-hours on-call roster for crisis response.
• Support clients in refuge and emergency accommodation when needed.

Skills

Family violence crisis intervention

Case management

Risk assessment knowledge

Trauma-informed care

Crisis response and on-call

Communication and stakeholder eng.

Education

Degree in social work / family violence / community services

Job description

Specialist Family Violence Practitioner - Community Hub

Be part of one of Victoria’s leading not-for-profits and help create meaningful change in the community every day.

Location

Community Hub

Work type

Part Time - Ongoing

Working model

On Site

About the role

As a committed and dedicated Specialist Family Violence Practitioner, your responsibilities will include:

• Providing crisis intervention, short-term case management and ongoing recovery-oriented support to victim survivors, including children, who are experiencing or escaping family violence.
• Building respectful, collaborative relationships and delivering person-centred, strengths-based support that recognises each person’s identity, culture, circumstances and strengths, and upholds their rights, dignity, choice and participation.
• Understanding the gendered nature of family violence, its intersection with other forms of inequality and discrimination, and its dynamics and impacts across diverse family and relationship contexts.
• Working within the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) Framework, the Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme (FVISS), the Child Information Sharing Scheme (CISS), and other relevant frameworks and guidelines to assess and manage risk, promote safety, and support accountability for people using violence.
• Advocating alongside victim survivors and collaborating with local, regional and statewide services to coordinate practical, culturally responsive and accessible support.
• Participating in an after hours on call roster to provide crisis response (phone based)
• Supporting clients in refuge and emergency accommodation, while helping them identify pathways toward safety, stability and longer-term recovery

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Qualification

• A degree level qualification in the field of social work, family violence or community services sector aligned to theMandatory minimum qualifications for specialist family violence response roles | vic.gov.au(effective 31 March 2026).
• Valid Victorian Driver Licence.

About You

Your skills and capabilities will include:

• Experience in family violence crisis intervention and case management.
• Ability to apply theory to practice when responding to the needs affecting victim survivors experiencing family violence including children.
• A strong knowledge of risk assessment, trauma-informed care, and family violence frameworks.
• Ability to work in crisis driven environments while managing a complex caseload.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to participate in the enhanced after-hours crisis response on-call roster.

Why join Vincentcare?

• Salary packaging, sometimes called salary sacrificing is a huge attraction here! It is a popular way of providing employees in the community sector with tax benefits over and above their salary. It means the real value of a salary package can be significantly higher than the nominal value.
• Employee Assistance Program
• We offer a place where you know you are contributing to a firm committed to helping others. We are passionate about #SocialJustice.

About Vincentcare Victoria

VincentCare Victoria is an award-winning organisation established to provide a range of accommodation and support services to people that are facing disadvantage throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria.

We are a leading community-focused organisation dedicated to supporting people experiencing disadvantage, including homelessness and those impacted by family violence. We are committed to the principles of social justice and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion.

VincentCare has over three hundred dedicated, talented and enthusiastic staff working across a range of programs and services and offers a number of benefits including career development opportunities; salary packaging; study leave; family friendly, flexible working environment.

VincentCare is committed to demonstrating the principles of self-determination, reconciliation, intersectional inclusion, equity, and social justice. This means that we will resolutely:

• Take specific steps to ensure that all staff, volunteers and clients feel valued and are treated with dignity and respect.
• Celebrate people’s diverse physical and cognitive abilities, mental or cognitive health status, cultural background and ethnicity, gender identity, sex characteristic, sexual orientation, age, faith or non-faith.
• Critically review our work to identify disadvantages and we actively seek to place the voices and expertise of marginalised people at the centre of our actions when improving our inclusion strategies.
• Lead by example in how we challenge disadvantage and contribute to a more equitable world which is free from discrimination and marginalisation.

We value diversity and inclusion and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all backgrounds.

Pre-employment checks are required (including National Police Check, Working With Children Check and right to work).

We are committed to child safety.