About the Role
As a Practitioner within The Orange Door, you will work in an Intake, Assessment and Brief Intervention capacity as part of an integrated team. This is primarily a phone-based role, where your practice skills are applied through conversation, risk assessment and planning. The work is diverse, complex and often time critical, requiring emotional agility, sound judgement and the ability to assess risk while remaining calm and compassionate. You will work collaboratively within the integrated model, contributing to shared risk assessment, case planning and coordinated responses across child wellbeing and family violence streams.
Responsibilities
- Conduct risk and needs assessments and developing safety plans.
- Actively engage vulnerable children, young people and families.
- Work collaboratively within the integrated model, contributing to shared risk assessment, case planning and coordinated responses across child wellbeing and family violence streams.
Requirements
- Experience in child protection, child and family services, or family violence.
- Confidence navigating legislative and policy frameworks to inform risk assessment and planning.
- Strong understanding of the social context of child abuse and neglect.
- Commitment to trauma-informed and culturally responsive practice.
- Commitment to working with victim survivors and adults using family violence.
- Collaborative practice skills within multidisciplinary environments.
- Must hold a current Working with Children Check.
- Must be prepared to undergo a National Criminal History Check prior to commencement.
Skills
- Child protection
- Family services
- Family violence
- Risk assessment
- Case planning
- Intervention
- Communication
- Emotional agility
- Judgement
- Calmness
- Compassion
- Trauma-informed practice
- Culturally responsive practice
Location
- Box Hill
Work Type
- Full time
- Fixed term
- 9am-5pm
Experience Level
- Negotiable dependent upon your years of experience or current SCHADS level.
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degrees
- Graduate Certificates
- Master’s Degrees
- Diploma (with requirement for further study)
Salary/Compensations
- Starting at around $105,557 plus super plus salary packaging (Level 5 SCHADS)
Benefits
- Well Worth It! wellbeing program
- Fitness Passport
- EIP and EAP
- Discounted health insurance
- Dedicated Learning and Development support
About the Company
- At Anglicare Victoria, we work alongside children, young people and families to help build safer, stronger futures.
- Our work is guided by three pillars Prevent, Protect, Empower and grounded in compassion, courage and commitment.
- The Orange Door is central to this work, bringing together specialist family violence and child and family services into one integrated entry point for support.
Equal Opportunity
- Anglicare Victoria acknowledges Aboriginal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we operate. We commit to working respectfully to honour their ongoing cultural and spiritual connections to this country.
- Diversity and inclusivity are important to Anglicare Victoria and we are committed to ensuring our workplace and services reflect this. Everyone is welcome at Anglicare Victoria, regardless of age, ethnicity, cultural background, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation and physical ability.
- Workplace with Rainbow Tick Accreditation and DCA Inclusive Employer recognition.
