DFV Practitioner (9-month Parental Leave Cover)
Domestic Violence NSW Service Management T/A Human & Co – Blacktown NSW
Bring your clinical practice to where women are rebuilding their lives
Do you want to use your skills to support women and children as they recover from domestic and family violence and build safer, independent futures?
As a DFV Practitioner, you will provide trauma-informed, person-centred support to women and their accompanying children across both our refuge and outreach services.
Working alongside each woman, you will undertake assessment, safety planning, case management, advocacy, and therapeutic interventions to help achieve their goals and strengthen their long-term safetyand wellbeing.
You will manage a diverse caseload, coordinate with internal and external services, and work collaboratively as part of our Outreach Accommodation Support Intervention Services (OASIS) team.
Every day brings current opportunities to make a meaningful difference by supporting women and children through crisis, recovery, and their journey toward independence.
This is afull-time, 9-month parental leave position based primarily on site.
Regular face-to-face engagement with women and children is central to the role, enabling you to build trusted relationships, respond to changing needs as they arise, and provide timely, practical support when itmatters most.
What you will do
Direct practice with women and their families:
provide case management support to women and children living in our refuge settings.
deliver individual and group sessions grounded in trauma informed and DFV informed practice.
complete risk assessments, safety planning and therapeutic case plans with each woman.
respond to family mental health, safety and wellbeing needs as they are identified.
build positive relationships with clients that shape their whole experience of our organisation.
meet mandatory reporting obligations when required.
Work alongside other services:
advocate for clients with the services they engage with, and build the capacity of those services to respond well to DFV.
identify, establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders including health services, DCJ and Police.
attend relevant stakeholder meetings where appropriate.
Keep the record accurate:
document case notes in CIMS and complete reports when required.




complete and maintain therapeutic case plans and safety plans.
complete incident reports when needed.
Be part of the team:
engage in learning and development and regular clinical supervision.
work with the Service Manager and the team to support organisational goals and a positive team culture.
take part in the on-call roster.
This role may include manual handling tasks to support women and children in their daily routines or as part of moving housing facilities.
Please ensure you're comfortable with physical activity as part ofthe job.
Who we are looking for
This is a 9-month fixed-term role for a practitioner with real depth in DFV practice and the judgement to work independently in a complex environment.
Specifically:
Demonstrated experience in direct clinical, therapeutic and/or case management work in the DFV sector.
Demonstrated knowledge of DFV service delivery and the gendered basis of domestic and family violence.
Demonstrated knowledge of how DFV affects women and their children.
Demonstrated experience in family work with families where there has been DFV.
Demonstrated experience in assessment and response-based practice in the DFV sector.
Demonstrated knowledge of the neurobiology of trauma and how it shapes outcomes for women who have had DFV experiences.
Demonstrated understanding of attachment theory and of parenting from a neurosequential and attachment framework.
Demonstrated experience supporting women to recover from DFV, including risk assessment and safety planning.
Qualifications and training
Bachelor's degree in social work, Psychology, Counselling or Psychotherapy (essential).
Postgraduate training in DFV and trauma informed service delivery (desirable).
Group work training (desirable).
Genuine occupational requirement
As Human & Co provides services exclusively to women and children, being female is a genuine occupational requirement for this position pursuant to Section 31 of the Anti-Discrimination Act **** (NSW).
Mandatory requirements




NSW Working with Children Check (WWCC):You must hold or be able to obtain a valid NSW Working with Children Check clearance prior to commencement.
National Police Check:A satisfactory National Police Check is required.
Human & Co will arrange this prior to commencement.
NSW Driver Licence:You must hold a current unrestricted NSW driver licence.
Life at Human & Co
Domestic Violence NSW Service Management (trading as Human & Co) is a registered charity that works to prevent and support recovery from domestic and family violence and homelessness.
Our vision is a world where women, families, and communities live free from violence, have equal rights, opportunities, and the freedom to reach their potential.
Our purpose is to empower clients to make positive, permanent changes that improve their safety and wellbeing.
Our values
Person-Centred:We listen and embrace diversity to support our clients to define and achieve their own goals.
Excellence:We bring professionalism and evidence-based practice to every programme and service we deliver.
Respect:We stay open-minded and non-judgemental in every interaction.
Integrity:We are ethical, transparent, and accountable, to our communities and to eachother.
What Human & Co offers you
Specialist practice, not generalist casework: A caseload of women in a specialist women's service, with the time and the framework to do therapeutic work properly.
Regular clinical supervision and wellbeing support:Clinical supervision is built into how we work, both for your professional growth and for your wellbeing.
Learning and development:Ongoing training in DFV, trauma informed practice and therapeutic frameworks, alongside a team you can learn and reflect with.
Not-for-profit salary packaging:Reduce your tax and increase your take-home pay through NFP salary packaging (FBT exemption up to $15,900 per FBT year).
A certified Great Place to Work®:We hold Great Place to Work certification across multiple years, backed by strong leadership and a culture built together over time.
For more information about who we are and what we do, please visit
We warmly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTIQ+ women, and women with disability.
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📌 Dfv Practitioner (9-Month Parental Leave Cover) (Sydney)
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