• Multidisciplinary team providing an intake function to vulnerable families
• Full time | Maximum term position to 30 June 2025 based at Dandenong

Your new role

As an Orange Door Practitioner, working in a multidisciplinary integrated Orange Door agency team, you will deliver quality, safe, and effective responses to children, young people, and families experiencing family violence. You will deliver intake support via phone, within the Orange Door site and through outreach visits.

In addition, you will: 

• Actively manage a caseload
• Delivery screening and triage, assessment, crisis responses, service planning, targeted interventions, allocation and coordinated referrals
• Work collaboratively to support integrated risk assessment and planning
• Apply for brokerage on behalf of clients when required
• Refer clients to services within the broader service system and provide them information and support

About your team / About the program

The Orange Door Program brings together workforces from Community Service organisations, Aboriginal Services, Family Safety Victoria and DFFH, to deliver an integrated practice model and a consolidated intake point for: 

• Women, children, young people, and families who are experiencing or have experienced family violence
• People who use violence
• Families requiring support with the care, development and wellbeing of unborn babies, infants, children, and young people

Uniting focuses on providing services to vulnerable families who require extra support with the care, development and wellbeing of unborn babies, infants, children and young people.

Your skills and experience

You thrive in a dynamic environment, assessing and responding to children and families presenting with a range of issues at a time when they need support most. You love that no day is ever the same and feel energized when you find referral pathways and empower individuals to be involved in developing their own support arrangement.

You will bring:

• Bachelor of Social Work or equivalent as per the mandatory minimum qualification requirements for specialist family violence practitioners
• Experience, skills, and capabilities in child, youth, and families welfare
• Well-developed risk assessment and management skills 
• Understanding of the broader service system referral pathways 
• Sound understanding of the MARAM Framework, Best Interests Principles and the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 
• Valid and current Driver’s License

View the position description here.

How to apply

Click APPLY to submit your interest.

If this role sounds like a good fit for you, please apply soon. We'll review applications as they come in and may close the ad early.

For any questions, reach out to Radinka Kavedzic on 1800 271 170 for a chat.