About The Sexual Assault & Family Violence Centre

We are a leading organisation offering a comprehensive suite of services to clients and the community across the Barwon and South West Regions. We provide specialist sexual assault and family violence programs and services, including 24 hour crisis care support, case management, therapeutic counselling, early intervention and professional education and training, we continue to grow and develop our offerings.

About The Orange Door

The Orange Door delivers a fundamental change to the way we work with women, children and families, and men. The role of The Orange Door is to provide:

a more visible contact point so that people know where to go for specialist support

help for people to identify family violence and child and family safety and wellbeing issues

advice based on contemporary risk assessment tools and guidance and best available information

specialist support and tailored advice for victims, families and children, and perpetrators

a strong focus on perpetrator accountability

connection and coordination of access to support

an approach across the spectrum of prevention, early intervention and response

a system-wide view of service capacity, client experience and outcomes.

The Orange Door supports the agency of children, young people and families to ensure that the services they receive meet their needs and their goals. The Orange Door also focuses on people who use family violence and to keep them in view, and plays a role in holding them accountable for their action and changing their behaviour.

About The Role

The Family Violence Victim Survivors Practice Leader will work in collaboration with the Hub Manager, other Practice Leaders and Team Leaders to lead the delivery of high quality, safe and effective service responses to Victorians seeking support and services through The Orange Door. This role is responsible for providing specialist family violence practice advice and expertise to the workforce and will work collaboratively to build workforce capability, integrated practice and specialist family violence knowledge across all The Orange Door staff. Provide a client centred and best practice service in line with the Orange Door Service Model and Integrated Practice Framework.

Why work for The Sexual Assault & Family Violence Centre?

The Sexual Assault & Family Violence Centre takes pride in being an employer of choice; we are passionate about the wellbeing of our team members and we provide a number of complementary benefits to our staff, some of our benefits include:

Generous above award Enterprise Agreement entitlements

Flexible and part time working arrangements

Professional development opportunities

10 weeks Paid parental leave

Salary packaging

Health and Wellbeing initiatives

Flu vaccinations

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Social initiatives

Positive workplace culture

To apply, please upload your resume and response to the key selection criteria outlined in the position description. All applications must address the key selection criteria outlined in the position description to be considered. Applications close at 5pm Sunday 29 June 2025.

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About You

With degree qualifications in social work, welfare, psychology, or a related discipline.

If you share our vision for a community free from family violence and sexual assault and are motivated to make a difference, we would like to hear from you.

We pride ourselves on being a great place to work. You care for our clients and we care for you, including by investing in your development and wellbeing. You will have access to leading specialists and training and development that supports you in your role and in your longer term career journey. We offer a variety of career pathway options, leading salary packaging benefits and flexible working arrangements that help you manage your work and your life.

The successful candidate will be required to maintain a current Working With Children’s check and National Police Check at their own expense.