About the Role
As a Children and Young People’s Practitioner (CYPP), you’ll play a key role in supporting children and young people experiencing family violence. Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, you’ll deliver trauma-informed, strength-based case management and advocacy that empowers families to achieve safety and stability.
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About You
You’re passionate about making a difference for children and families impacted by family violence. You bring empathy, professionalism, and resilience to your work and thrive in a supportive, collaborative environment.
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Desirable:
In line with Sections 12 and 28 of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (Vic), our service delivery roles are held exclusively by women to ensure we best meet the needs of the women and children we have in service.
Why Refuge Victoria?
Be part of a leading not-for-profit organisation making a difference in the lives of women and children.
Supportive, values-driven culture focused on compassion, empowerment, and collaboration.
Ongoing professional development and training opportunities.
Flexible work arrangements and wellbeing initiatives.
ABOUT US
Refuge Victoria is a not-for-profit Specialist Family Violence Organisation that provides refuge accommodation to women and children escaping family violence. We have been responding to family violence and changing people’s stories for over 40 years. Refuge Victoria is the largest provider of refuge accommodation in Victoria with three core and cluster refuges, 15 refuge properties and nominating rights to approx. 35 Transitional Houses.
Refuge Victoria 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.
How to Apply
Please submit a cover letter and resume addressing your experience against the responsibilities and role description.
The successful applicant will need to undertake a national police check, referee checks, and have a Working with Children Check.
At Refuge Victoria, we celebrate diversity in ethnicity, social experience, genders, sexual orientation, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, religious beliefs, ages and abilities and encourage and welcome talent from all backgrounds. Help us continue to build our unique, inclusive and diverse team!
For a confidential discussion, contact the hiring manager on 03 9877 0311.
Visit refugevictoria.org.au to learn more about our vital work.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
