Specialist Family Violence Practitioner (CSE020)

Make a meaningful impact by supporting women and children escaping family violence to achieve immediate safety, greater stability and a pathway towards recovery through trauma-informed, culturally safe support.

About the Role

Permanent

Hours

Part time – multiple FTEs available

Location

Frankston / Bayside Peninsula

Salary

2% above SCHADS 5.1 / $107,689.23 + Super

Why you’ll love this role

- Be part of a specialist 24/7 family violence service providing critical accommodation and rapid-response support to women and children escaping family violence.
- Work within a collaborative specialist team while building your practice through supervision, professional development and experience across accommodation and Rapid Response services.
- Make a direct impact by helping women and children achieve immediate safety, stability and connection to the supports they need for recovery.

What you’ll be doing

- Provide specialist, trauma-informed family violence support to women and children accessing accommodation and Rapid Response services.
- Assess family violence risk and safety needs, developing responsive strategies that promote immediate and ongoing safety.
- Deliver tailored case management that supports victim survivors to identify goals, strengthen wellbeing and work towards recovery and independence.
- Connect women and children with housing, financial, legal, health and other specialist services to address their individual needs.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external services to provide coordinated, culturally safe and person-centred responses to family violence.

What you’ll bring

- Hold an appropriate tertiary qualification in Social Work, family violence or a related discipline,



and meet Victoria’s minimum mandatory qualification requirements for specialist family violence practitioners.
- Bring 2–5 years’ experience supporting adult and child victim survivors of family violence, including people with complex needs and from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
- Demonstrate strong knowledge of family violence risk, MARAM, trauma-informed and intersectional practice, and the broader integrated family violence service system.
- Communicate and collaborate effectively with victim survivors, interpreters, colleagues, referral networks and other service providers, while also working confidently and independently when required.
- Be committed to culturally protected, inclusive and person-centred practice that promotes dignity, choice, self-determination and the safety of adult and child victim survivors.

Ideally, you’ll also have

- Experience working in crisis accommodation, a high-security refuge, Rapid Response or another fast-paced family violence program.
- Flexibility to work across Bridget House and other Bayside Peninsula locations, including overnight and weekend shifts as part of a 24/7 service.

Why work with us?

- Salary packaging - up to $15,900 in tax-free pay per year, plus entertainment up to $2,650
- 4 days gifted leave at Christmas and Easter (pro rata)
- Additional leave through purchase leave pathways
- Employee Assistance Program, a free and confidential counselling service




- Eligible for participation in the portable long service leave program

About Good Shepherd At Good Shepherd, we work towards a more equitable future where women, girls and families can thrive. Through services that support financial wellbeing, family safety, education and community connection, we help people build secure, fulfilling lives. Alongside our direct services, we advocate for lasting social change and address the underlying causes of disadvantage.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels safe, respected and able to belong.

Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand (GSANZ) respects the dignity of all people, draws strength from, and celebrates the diversity of our community. At GSANZ, we strive for an inclusive culture where all identities feel safe and that they belong. We welcome and actively seek applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people of all sexual orientations and gender expressions and identities, people with disability, and culturally and racially marginalised people.

Each person’s individual decision regarding disclosure will be fully respected.

How to apply

Please click 'Apply' to complete your application. Please upload your resume and a brief cover letter addressing the requirements of the role.

Applications are considered as they are received.

To view the position description, please visit https://hrdoc.goodshep.org.au/doc/HRE-TEM-010 Position Description - Specialist Family Violence Practitioner (Accommodation Rapid Response).pdf

APPLICATIONS CLOSE: FRIDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 2026

Good Shepherd Recruitment Team: [email protected]

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📌 Specialist Family Violence Practitioner (Frankston)
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