Specialist Family Violence Practitioner - Community Hub

St Vincent De Paul; Melbourne; Sur place; AUD 55 000 - 77 000; Temps partiel

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Salary packaging

Career Development opportunities

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible working environment

Résumé du poste

VincentCare Victoria is hiring a Specialist Family Violence Practitioner to provide crisis intervention and ongoing support for victim survivors, including children, within a community-based setting.

You will work on risk assessment and coordinated services across agencies, including after-hours on-call response and refuge support, contributing to safety and recovery outcomes for diverse families.

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualification in social work, family violence, or community services aligned to minimum qualifications for specialist family violence roles.
• Valid Victorian Driver Licence.

Responsabilités

• Provide crisis intervention, short-term case management and ongoing recovery-oriented support to victim survivors, including children, experiencing or escaping family violence.
• Build respectful, collaborative, person-centred relationships and deliver strengths-based support upholding rights, dignity and participation.
• Understand gendered nature of family violence and its intersection with inequality across diverse contexts.
• Work within MARAM, FVISS, CISS and other frameworks to assess risk, promote safety and accountability for perpetrators.
• Advocate with victim survivors and coordinate with local, regional and statewide services.
• Participate in after-hours on-call crisis response (phone-based).
• Support clients in refuge and emergency accommodation toward safety, stability and long-term recovery.

Connaissances

Crisis intervention

Case management

Risk assessment

Trauma-informed care

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

On-call readiness

Formation

Degree in social work / family violence / community services

Description du poste

Job description

Posted Thursday 22 October 2026 at 1:00 pm | Expires Friday 20 November 2026 at 12:59 pm

Make a real difference

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 the Mandatory 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.
• Career Development opportunities
• 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.

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Job details

Pay typeHourly

Mentone VIC 3194, Australia