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Location

Hume Community Hub – Bairnsdale

Work type

Part Time 26.6 hours per week – 2 Year Maximum Term Contract

Salary

SCHADS 5 $53.43 to $55.85 per hour + Superannuation + NFP Salary Packaging

Working model

On Site

About the role

As a committed and experienced Specialist Family Violence Practitioner, you will provide specialist family violence support to women and children experiencing or escaping family violence.

Working within a new integrated Family Violence and Financial Counselling team, you will undertake risk assessment, safety planning, crisis intervention and short-term case management, supporting victim survivors to access coordinated services that promote safety, wellbeing and recovery.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Providing specialist family violence interventions, risk assessment, safety planning and short-term case management to women and children experiencing family violence.

- Promoting and delivering person-centred, strengths-based approaches that preserve and respect diversity, equality, choice and client empowerment.

- Applying the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework (MARAM), Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme (FVISS) and Child Information Sharing Scheme (CISS) and all other relevant frameworks and guidelines to manage risk and hold persons using violence accountable.

- Advocating for victim survivors and collaborating with local, regional and statewide services.

- Working closely with Financial Counsellors and community partners to provide integrated, holistic support to clients with complex and intersecting needs.

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About You

our skills and capabilities will include:

- Demonstrated experience providing specialist family violence responses, including crisis intervention, risk assessment and case management.

- Strong knowledge of family violence risk assessment, safety planning, trauma-informed practice and relevant legislative and practice frameworks.

- Experience applying MARAM, FVISS and CISS within a client-focused practice environment.

- Excellent communication, advocacy and stakeholder engagement skills.

- Ability to work effectively in crisis-driven environments while managing a complex caseload.





- Commitment to collaborative practice and contributing to a positive team culture.

- Resilience, sound judgement and a strong focus on achieving positive outcomes for victim survivors.

- Ability to participate in the enhanced after-hours crisis response on-call roster (Goulburn).
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This role forms part of a new integrated Family Violence and Financial Counselling service and will receive external specialist family violence supervision to support reflective practice, professional development and best-practice service delivery.

Please note:

This position is open to women only under a Special Measure in accordance with the Equal Prospect Act 2010 (Vic). VincentCare recognises the disproportionate impact of family violence on women and supports the delivery of specialist, gender-responsive services that help address disadvantage and improve access to support for women and children.

Qualification

- A degree level qualification in the field of social work, family violence, community services or a related discipline aligned with Victoria's Mandatory Minimum Qualifications for Specialist Family Violence Practitioners. (effective 31 March 2026)

- A valid Victorian Driver Licence.

Why join Vincentcare?

- Salary packaging, sometimes called salary sacrificing is a huge attraction here! It is a popular way of providing employees in the community sector with tax benefits over and above their salary. It means the real value of a salary package can be significantly higher than the nominal value.
- Career Development opportunities
- Employee Assistance Program
- We offer a place where you know you are contributing to a firm committed to helping others. We are passionate about #SocialJustice.

About Vincentcare Victoria VincentCare Victoria is an award-winning organisation established to provide a range of accommodation and support services to people that are facing disadvantage throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria. We are a leading community-focused organisation dedicated to supporting people experiencing disadvantage, including homelessness and those impacted by family violence.



We are committed to the principles of social justice and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion. VincentCare has over three hundred dedicated, talented and enthusiastic staff working across a range of programs and services and offers a number of benefits including career development opportunities; salary packaging; study leave; family friendly, flexible working environment. VincentCare is committed to demonstrating the principles of self-determination, reconciliation, intersectional inclusion, equity, and social justice. This means that we will resolutely:

- Take specific steps to ensure that all staff, volunteers and clients feel valued and are treated with dignity and respect.
- Celebrate people’s diverse physical and cognitive abilities, mental or cognitive health status, cultural background and ethnicity, gender identity, sex characteristic, sexual orientation, age, faith or non-faith.
- Critically review our work to identify disadvantages and we actively seek to place the voices and expertise of marginalised people at the centre of our actions when improving our inclusion strategies.
- Lead by example in how we challenge disadvantage and contribute to a more equitable world which is free from discrimination and marginalisation.

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How to apply

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, we’d love to hear from you.

Please submit:

- Your CV
- A short cover letter outlining your suitability

Applications close: 11^th December 2026

Please note: applications will be reviewed as they are received and the role may close earlier. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Enquiries may be made to Marie Murfet – Hume Community Hub on 04•• ••• 708

Important information

- Pre-employment checks are required (including National Police Check, Working With Children Check and right to work)
- We are committed to child safety
- We value diversity and inclusion and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all backgrounds

No agencies please.

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📌 Specialist Family Violence Practitioner - Bairnsdale
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