Practitioner - The Orange Door - Warrnambool, Victoria

Job summary

As an Orange Door Practitioner, you're there when it matters most - supporting families, listening without judgment, and guiding people toward safety and stability.

Responsibilities

• Conduct risk and needs assessments, develop safety plans using evidence-based tools, and work closely with victim-survivors, children, and men as fathers - ensuring all voices are heard and respected.
• Provide secondary consultation and expert advice, help keep adults using violence accountable and in view, and refer families to the right supports to ensure safety, stability, and long-term wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Hold a Bachelor of Social Work or other equivalent qualification (or are currently enrolled and working towards this)
• OR have minimum 5 years relevant professional experience and willing to undertake further study to gain equivalent qualification by June 2026.
• OR a related qualification as per the mandatory minimum qualification requirements and willing to undertake further study to gain equivalent qualification by June 2026.
• OR hold significant cultural knowledge and experience or lived experience, and have faced barriers to educational pathways and have a willingness to meet minimum or equivalent qualification within 10 years.
• OR are considered exempt under the policy (practitioners who were part of the specialist family violence practitioner workforce prior to 2021)

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