Are you a highly skilled, innovative and agile professional who wants to make a difference to the lives of people experiencing domestic and family violence?
As the Domestic and Family Violence Practitioner, Embedded Worker, you will respond to victim-survivors presenting at the police station counter for assistance with domestic and family violence matters. You will have a key role in maintaining and strengthening relationships with officers and key roles within the Beaudesert and Jimboomba police stations.
You will benefit from a shared learning environment, positive team and organisational culture, and a dedication to your wellbeing as you undertake this challenging work.
About the job
Role location: Rotation between Beaudesert and Jimboomba Police Stations.
Role type: Permanent, full time
Pay range: $105,909 a year / $53.43 an hour with salary packaging exempt from Fringe Benefits Tax available
In this role you will:
Identify and assess risk and resource victim-survivors to increase their immediate safety.
Provide information and facilitate access to relevant services to address health, parenting, financial, employment support, legal, and other counselling needs.
Assist police to engage with victim-survivors, build trust and rapport and promote better understanding of power and control to strengthen the identification of the person most in need of protection.
About you
Aside from meeting the key capabilities outlined in the related role description available via the link below, you’ll be a great fit if you:
Bring experience in a similar role and have a domestic and family violence framework underpinned by a gendered perspective of violence, application of the common risk and safety framework and information sharing guidelines.
Your advocacy will have influence and impact and strengthen relationships that shift power to victim-survivors rather than further disadvantage them.
You are resilient, flexible, value collaboration, bring humour, innovation, and have cultural awareness.
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Interested?
Apply with your resume and a one-page covering letter outlining what you will bring to the job.
People from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, and people who identify as part of the LGBTIQA+ community, are encouraged to apply.
Contact Sarah on 07 3826 1500 if you want to talk about the role.
Closing date: This role remains open until filled.
Interviews will be scheduled for times agreed with applicants.
Company Overview
About us At YFS, we make a real difference to the lives of people living in Logan and surrounding areas. We have a real commitment to seeing people thrive, including our staff. We encourage staff to bring their entire selves to work, because we know that a happy workplace thrives. In our recent Employee Opinion Survey our staff said the best things about working at YFS are the challenging work/job satisfaction, fellow employees, teamwork, and pay and benefits. We’re serious about your professional development. And we empower each other to make decisions and try recent ways of working. Depending on your role, we support flexible work arrangements. We also offer great employment benefits including above-average pay rates, generous salary packaging (exempt from Fringe Benefits Tax), portable long service leave, counselling support and free parking. To find out more about working with us, head to https://www.yfs.org.au/work-for-us/.
📌 D&FV Specialist; Embedded Worker (Jimboomba)
🏢 Yfs
📍 Jimboomba