REFUGE MANAGER

Currently a manager in the community services/ family violence sector looking for a larger role?

Do you want to hold a key leadership role with the largest provider of family violence refuge/crisis accommodation in Victoria?

Come and work for a growing, dynamic and progressive organization seeking to enhance safety, support and pathways to safety for those escaping family violence.

ABOUT US

Safe Futures Foundation is a not-for-profit Specialist Family Violence Organisation that provides refuge/crisis accommodation to women and children escaping family violence.  We have been responding to family violence and changing people’s stories for over 40 years.  Safe Futures is the largest provider of refuge/crisis accommodation in Victoria with three core and cluster refuges, 15 crisis properties and nomination rights to 35 Transitional Houses.

Safe Futures Foundation is committed to the principles of cultural safety and inclusion of all individuals from diverse backgrounds and to the safety and inclusion of individuals with a disability

The Foundation supports women and children experiencing homelessness from family violence, providing refuge and crisis accommodation, risk assessment and case management support and outreach case management support to clients in transitional properties and/or private rental.

THE ROLE

Leading a passionate, collaborative team the Refuge Manager has the primary responsibility for the management of staff and services for the Maroondah refuge, surrounding 13 crisis properties and 35 transitional properties.

The Refuge Manager plays a pivotal role in the success of the family violence emergency response program. They are expected to meet a range of outcomes and deliverables which align with the Safe Futures’ Strategic Plan and to assist the organisation to achieve its goals as it continues to build a strong and sustainable organisation.

The Refuse Manager is responsible for coordinating the delivery of an extended hours service. This role entails the oversight and monitoring of high-quality intake and family violence risk assessments, safety plans, needs assessments, case and exit planning. The role also incorporates overall management of the properties and units to ensure they are maintained and ready for occupancy. The program includes full time Monday to Friday staff and staff rostered over seven days per week providing after hours support.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Coordinate intake and referral functions and the management of emergency and accommodation response services
• Provide supervision and management coordination to the Maroondah Refuge team
• Ensure vacated units are ready for occupancy within 1-2 business days
• Participation in the back up on-call roster, and some after hour’s service provision as required
• Ensure high quality and comprehensive risk assessments, safety plans, needs assessments and case plans are undertaken for women and children accessing emergency accommodation
• Co-ordination of exit planning and handovers to Safe Futures programs or to external services
• Provision of daily complex staff case management support
• Provide strategic advice to senior management and participate in senior management team meetings

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

The successful candidate will need to have the following:

• Relevant degree-level tertiary such as Social Work, Social and Community Services or Psychology.
• Sector experience would be a definite advantage.
• 3+ years leadership experience
• A current police check and working with children's check,

This role is full-time ongoing with the expectation of participation in the on-call roster for after hours.

The salary is Level 8 of the SCHADS award and will commence ASAP. Benefits include an RDO, mobile phone and salary packaging.

Please email Jo Peterson, HR Advisor if you would like a job description: jop@safefutures.org.au

Senior Case Manager

Currently a Case Manager or Senior Case Manager in the community services/ family violence sector looking for a larger role?

Do you want to be part of the leadership team with the largest provider of family violence refuge/crisis accommodation in Victoria?

Come and work for a growing, dynamic and progressive organization seeking to enhance safety, support and pathways to safety for those escaping family violence.

ABOUT US

Safe Futures Foundation is a not-for-profit Specialist Family Violence Organisation that provides refuge/crisis accommodation to women and children escaping family violence.  We have been responding to family violence and changing people’s stories for over 40 years.  Safe Futures is the largest provider of refuge/crisis accommodation in Victoria with three core and cluster refuges, 15 crisis properties and nomination rights to 35 Transitional Houses.

Safe Futures Foundation is committed to the principles of cultural safety and inclusion of all individuals from diverse backgrounds and to the safety and inclusion of individuals with a disability

The Foundation supports women and children experiencing homelessness from family violence, providing refuge and crisis accommodation, risk assessment and case management support and outreach case management support to clients in transitional properties and/or private rental.

THE ROLE

The Senior Case Manager has responsibility for leading the day-to-day operations of the Maroondah Refuge and case management and outreach programs as well as being involved in and establishing operational procedures. This includes the design and implementation of the service within a feminist framework and ensuring compliance with MARAM and family violence frameworks. The role is expected to meet a range of outcomes and deliverables which align with the Safe Futures Strategic Plan and assist the organisation to achieve its business goals and build a strong and sustainable organisation.

The Senior Case Manager is responsible for the delivery of case management support to women and their children in crisis and transitional accommodation experiencing family and domestic violence, including management of referrals, risk assessment, safety plans, comprehensive needs assessments, case plans, exit plans, advocacy and referral to other relevant services. Further, the Senior Case Manager will oversee the response to intake and referral service and provision of emergency accommodation services and after-hours support.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Assist in the coordination of intake and referral functions and the management of emergency and accommodation response services
• Provide supervision to students on placement
• Participation in the back up on-call roster, and some after hour’s service provision as required
• Ensure high quality and comprehensive risk assessments, safety plans, needs assessments and case plans are undertaken for women and children accessing emergency accommodation
• Co-ordination of exit planning and handovers to Safe Futures programs or to external services
• Provision of daily complex case management support to staff and manage a caseload of complex cases
• Establish and build community partnerships and attend network meetings.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

The successful candidate will need to have the following:

• Relevant degree-level tertiary qualifications such as Social Work, Social and Community Services or Psychology.
• A minimum of 3 years sector experience would be a definite advantage
• Experience in complex case management highly desirable
• Experience in supervision or leadership activities desirable
• A current police check and working with children's check

These roles are full-time ongoing, and will be rostered on an extended hours roster between 9am - 8pm Monday to Friday, with the expectation of on-call rostering.

The salary is Level 6 of the SCHADS award and the role commences ASAP.  Benefits include RDO, mobile phone and salary packaging.

Please email Jo Peterson, HR Advisor, if you would like a position description: jop@safefutures.org.au

The Family and Domestic Violence Pilot Project Program forms part of the Commonwealth Government’s initiative for Improving Health System Responses to Family and Domestic Violence. This initiative was funded as part of a broader suite of programs to support the Fourth Action Plan (2019-22) to Prevent Violence Against Women and Children.

Family Violence Pilot Project is situated in the family violence early intervention initiatives. The project seeks to provide a more integrated and seamless service response across primary health care with a particular focus on General Practice, community service organisations and specialist family violence services, which supports effective early identification and intervention of clients who are at risk of or who are experiencing family violence.

The Family Violence Connector roles will target General Practice at a workforce, organisational and systems level, to improve effective early identification and support for clients at risk of or who are experiencing family violence.

You can be more than part of your community – be someone making a difference for people in your community

Situated in the heart of the picturesque Grampians and Wimmera regions, Grampians Community Health employs over 160 staff at three sites located at Stawell (main office), Horsham and Ararat.

We provide a safe, inclusive and respectful environment that values culture, beliefs, values, gender identity and capacity.  We are compassionate, inclusive, professional, courageous and empowering.

Grampians Community Health offers a diverse range of employment opportunities and is seeking qualified and experienced professionals looking for a rewarding career, who are passionate about their work and committed to improving the lives of members of the community.

Employee benefits

Salary packaging

Grampians Community Health has generous salary packaging benefits up to $15,900 for personal expenses and meal and entertainment expenses in addition to salary and access to ATO Remote Housing Allowance (for eligible place of residence). Salary packaging is an Australian Taxation Office approved means of restructuring your salary to reduce your taxation. See how you can benefit from salary packaging at Grampians Community Health here with the online calculator.

Working from home

Grampians Community Health is progressive with offering the capacity for many of our staff to work remotely from their homes where the service delivery allows for it.  Access to information technology is provided to allow you the flexibility of working from home while remaining connected to Grampians Community Health staff, supervision and management.

Professional development

Grampians Community Health values our employees by supporting professional development to develop the knowledge and skills of our staff to better meet the needs of our clients.  Clinical supervision is provided for all staff who require it for their professional practice.

Purchased leave

Eligible staff may purchase up to 20 days additional leave in a financial year.

Employee Assistance Program

Grampians Community Health recognises the importance of providing support for staff members experiencing personal or work related issues and concerns to maintain a safe and healthy working environment. Support is provided through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which offers free confidential, professional assistance to staff members.

How to apply for a position

Go to https://gch.org.au/employment/

Download the position description and key selection criteria form.

To be considered for an interview all applications must include:

• A written letter of application
• Separately addressed key selection criteria form
• Current resume

Applications that do not complete the key selection criteria form will not be considered for interview

Completed applications for vacancies must be forwarded by:

12pm 26 April 2021 to: employment@gch.org.au

The Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) works hard to create equal opportunities for all Victorians to live a safe, respected and valued life. Our areas of focus are child protection, housing, disability, the prevention of family violence, multicultural affairs, LGBTQI+ equality, veterans, women and youth. The work we do benefits thousands of Victorians, particularly those who are disadvantaged and vulnerable. We work in a variety of community-based settings, including people's homes, residential facilities and secure settings across metropolitan, rural and regional Victoria. We are committed to developing and supporting a workforce that is well equipped and highly motivated. All jobs can be worked flexibly and we encourage applications from Aboriginal people and people from diverse backgrounds and abilities.

The Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) works hard to create equal opportunities for all Victorians to live a safe, respected and valued life. Our areas of focus are child protection, housing, disability, the prevention of family violence, multicultural affairs, LGBTQI+ equality, veterans, women and youth. The work we do benefits thousands of Victorians, particularly those who are disadvantaged and vulnerable. We work in a variety of community-based settings, including people's homes, residential facilities and secure settings across metropolitan, rural and regional Victoria. We are committed to developing and supporting a workforce that is well equipped and highly motivated. All jobs can be worked flexibly and we encourage applications from Aboriginal people and people from diverse backgrounds and abilities.

POSITION SUMMARY:

This is a great opportunity to contribute to the development and implementation of the Specialist Housing for Disability (SHFD) unit within Homes Victoria. The SHFD unit manages over 800 properties across Victoria, which are home to around 3000 people with a disability. The primary responsibility of the Principal Advisor Finance and Reporting is to help create a comprehensive operating financial model and reporting system utilising all available datasets to support the establishment and ongoing operations of the SDA provider function.

This role will provide a high performing individual with the opportunity to apply their skills and knowledge to systems development, financial modelling and analysis, report development, business analytics and provide forecast insights to executive management. Working within the unit's dynamic finance and risk team you will work closely with Corporate Services, external consultants and key operational stakeholders across the division and across the department at a strategic and operational level. 

Are you:

• Interested in a role that supports people with a disability
• Looking for a role that is focused leveraging datasets to inform reporting?
• A strategic thinker that develops strategies to ensure that business outcomes are met?
• Able to build and maintain positive relationships with key stakeholders and collaborate to achieve outcomes?

HOW TO APPLY:

Applicants are encouraged to apply online, submitting a cover letter and a current resume.

Please note: For this position, you are not required to address each of the key selection criteria in a separate written document.

Preferred candidates will be required to complete pre-employment screening, including a national police check and misconduct screening.

Applicants must be an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident or hold a valid work permit or visa. Work eligibility will be checked as part of the recruitment process.

Care Coordinator - Housing & Support Program
Fixed Term Position - 32 Hours per week until June 2023 (salary will be pro rata of the full time salary displayed).

*Readvertised*

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

The Women’s, Launch Housing and HousingFirst have collaborated to develop a housing and support program that will be launched in mid-2021. This multi-disciplinary, multi-agency program is an Australian-first. It will offer a pathway out of homelessness for pregnant women and new mothers – helping them to bond with and care for their babies, access support services, gain independence and break the cycle of homelessness. Ultimately, it aims to change the life trajectory of some of Victoria’s most vulnerable women and babies.

Your contribution 

Reporting to the Program Manager and working with the broader Program team – including workers from HousingFirst and Launch Housing – the Care Coordinator is a senior clinical leadership role in the service. The role provides assessment, casework management and service coordination support to women and infants to advance their health and well-being.

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Screening of referrals into the Cornelia Program and recommending women to HousingFirst to be accepted (as building owner and landlord, HousingFirst make final decision on tenants to be accepted into service).


• Conducting initial needs identification and risk assessment of the women once accepted.


• Leading the development of holistic health and psychosocial care plans for the women, working closely with Launch Housing, to ensure relevant clinical care and to overcome barriers in obtaining and maintaining long term housing.


• Connecting and referring the women to other external health and non-health service providers as necessary (e.g. Enhanced Maternal and Child Health, Mental Health services, Alcohol and Drug services, Early Parenting services)

About you

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

• Health professional qualifications (e.g. midwifery or social work tertiary qualifications)


• Significant experience working with women with complex needs (women with drug and alcohol challenges, including women who are homeless)


• Demonstrated knowledge of health and psychosocial issues and the impacts of homelessness, alcohol and drugs and violence on a women’s physical, social and emotional health.


• Eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Work or equivalent

Our offering

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the exceptional in your everyday.

Our staff benefits program includes salary packaging, on-site car parking and childcare (subject to availability), alongside a range of discounted financial, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits provided by our staff benefit partners. To learn more, please visit: www.thewomens.org.au/careers/why-work-at-the-womens/staff-benefits/

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

The Women’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and social inclusion. We welcome applications from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, people with lived experience of disability and people who identify as LGBTI.

It is a policy of the Women's to provide reasonable adjustments for persons with a disability. If you need assistance or adjustments to fully participate in the application or interview process, please contact the hiring manager listed under 'Contact Person'

Ready to make the move?

For more information about the position, please see the Position Description attached and apply online by selecting “apply now” below.

All appointments to the Women’s are subject to a satisfactory clearance of Working with Children Check and Police Check.

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About the role

• Career growth and development opportunity
• Full-time, permanent position
• Located in Camberwell

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, experienced family violence and child safety professional to join our Practice Quality Evaluation team at our Camberwell office with Relationships Australia Victoria (RAV) in this important role with staff who have been delivering effective client focused services and outcomes for over 70 years in Victoria.

About RAV

RAV is a secular, community-based, not-for-profit organisation with no religious affiliations who have been providing services to the Victorian community for over 70 years. Our vision is for “positive, respectful, safe and fulfilling relationships for all Australians”. Our objective is to relieve suffering, distress and helplessness and to enhance physical, social and emotional wellbeing. Our services are for all members of the community, regardless of their religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, lifestyle choice, cultural background or economic circumstances. RAV provides services from centres across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria.

About the role

Reporting to the General Manager Clinical Services, this position is responsible for providing practice leadership for RAV’s family violence and child safety programs and services, to enhance skills of operational staff who respond to family violence concerns for individuals, families including children across RAV centres. This includes clinical oversight of RAV’s Men’s Behaviour Change Program, undertaking projects that enhance family violence clinical governance programs, services, policies, procedures, systems, audit, compliance and supervision practices aligned to best practice in the sector.

This position will be based at our central office located in Camberwell and is available on a full-time, ongoing basis.

Skills, experience and qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in psychology, social work, sociology or other related discipline.
• Level 3 qualification in the provision of MBC Programs.
• Proven ability to develop and implement initiatives and processes to build capacity for Clinical Supervisors to respond to family violence presentations, disseminate practice expertise across a significant organisation.
• Proven ability to inform best practice service delivery implementation in relation to family violence for individuals and families, including children.
• Proven capacity to implement policies, procedures audit/compliance systems which are aligned to best practice in family violence work.

A copy of the position description (can be viewed below and) is available at www.rav.org.au/careers .

What we offer

A competitive sector remuneration package is on offer to the successful candidate with a base salary range of $108k-$116k per annum, superannuation and access to PBI tax-free salary packaging. RAV is an ‘employer of choice’ in the community sector who provides best practice professional development, training and supervision and work and life balance conditions and benefits.

To apply for this position, use the APPLY button and attach your covering letter responding to the above job requirements “Skills, experience and qualifications” and your current resume/cv.

For specific queries about this position contact Ms. Anastasia Panayiotidis, General Manager Clinical Services by phoning (03) 8573 2222. Applications close on 16 April 2021.

RAV is committed to building and supporting an inclusive and diverse workforce and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, those from cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTIQA+ communities and people with disabilities. We are committed to the safety of our clients and staff and promote a child-safe work environment. We recognise the lifelong impacts of childhood trauma and recognise those who had children taken away from them. All staff must undergo a National Police Check, International Police Check (if applicable) and Working with Children Check. RAV is a public benevolent institution.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced person with clinical experience, to design and develop training programs. 

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Training and Development, you will be resposbile for leading industry consultation and analysis in the development of learning pathways specific to family violence and relationship counselling. This includes supporting the design, development and delivery of a suite of learning solutions. 

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