About Women’s Legal Service Victoria
Women’s Legal Service Victoria (Women’s Legal) is a specialised and state-wide organisation that has been providing legal services and support to women since 1982. Informed by our feminist practice, we improve the legal system for victim-survivors of family and sexual violence through our integrated legal service, capacity building, advocacy and law reform. Our vision is for women and non-binary people to live free from violence and discrimination in a gender equitable society.
Women’s Legal is an employer of choice, providing an inclusive, flexible, and supportive environment for our staff to thrive. We welcome women across all career stages, and we recognise the many roles played by women in their families and communities. We are committed to supporting women’s participation in employment through building skills and knowledge for those looking for a change, and valuing the diverse expertise brought into our organisation.
About our Integrated Programs Team
Our social workers and financial counsellors are integral to supporting the safety of our clients, especially as we are often the first service contacted by a victim-survivor of family violence. This includes women who need help to leave violent relationships. Our Integrated Programs Team has shown that simultaneously and holistically addressing non-legal need, results in improved and more sustainable legal outcomes for women.
The Women’s Legal financial counsellor delivers specialist family violence financial counselling services to women experiencing family violence and who are experiencing housing instability. Working collaboratively with lawyers and social workers as part of an integrated model of service, the funding for this position is new and has a focus on Victorians experiencing financial hardships where rental or mortgage stress is a contributing factor.
This role will contribute to the organisation's strategic advocacy priorities and outcomes and intersectional feminist framework that recognises the multiple barriers women face accessing safe and secure housing.
This role will receive the mentoring and support of both the Senior Financial Counsellor and Integrated Programs Manager as the newly funded program is rolled out.
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.
