About the Role
Pathways to Change (PTC) is an 8-week online group program for individuals who have used violence in intimate and familial relationships. The program focuses on promoting accountability, fostering empathy, and equipping participants with practical tools to build healthier, non-violent relationships. The goal is to address key risk factors, reduce immediate risks, and improve compliance, motivating participants toward sustained behavior change and connecting them to ongoing support services.
Responsibilities
- Deliver high-quality interventions for men who use family violence, supporting behavior change and promoting safety and wellbeing.
- Set up intake and assessment sessions (4-5 per week).
- Provide group counselling for approximately 10 participants online in 90-minute sessions (4-5 per week).
- Facilitate group programs in an online environment.
- Work with people who demonstrate resistance, utilizing skills like motivational interviewing, strength-based practice, MARAM frameworks, and non-collusive practice.
- Gather information, analyze risk, and develop thorough risk assessments with safety planning to support risk mitigation.
- Support implementation, content development, and critical content review.
- Work with people with multiple intersectionalities.
- Maintain comprehensive case noting and effective administrative skills.
- Utilize technology and systems, including Microsoft Teams and Monday.com.
Requirements
- Tertiary qualifications in Social Work, Psychology, Counselling or Family Violence.
- Experience facilitating group work.
- Demonstrated experience in working with men who use family violence.
- Strong risk assessment capabilities.
- Ability to effectively facilitate group programs in an online environment.
- Skills using technology and systems, including Microsoft Teams and Monday.com.
- Agility, adaptive thinking, flexibility to change, willingness to try new approaches, and a strong team work ethic.
- Stable, reliable internet connection.
- Private office space to safely run groups from home.
- Current Working with Children Check.
- Willingness to undergo a National Criminal History Check.
Skills
- Motivational interviewing
- Strength-based practice
- MARAM frameworks
- Non-collusive practice
- Risk assessment
- Safety planning
- Microsoft Teams
- Monday.com
- Technology utilization
- Case noting
- Administrative skills
- Agility
- Adaptive thinking
- Flexibility
- Teamwork
Location
- Fully remote
- Box Hill
Work Type
- Fixed term contract
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Practitioner
- Level 6
Education Level
- Tertiary qualifications in Social Work, Psychology, Counselling or Family Violence
Salary/Compensations
- SCHADS level 6, starting at $115,339
Benefits
- Reflective practice and supervision
- Strong team connection and culture
- Flexibility to work from home, hybrid, or office space
- Salary packaging
- Full induction (face to face and online)
- Access to discounted health insurance
- Fitness Passport
- Free Employee Assistance Program
- Employment benefits supporting physical and mental health
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
