Take Two is a statewide specialist therapeutic service supporting children, young people, adults and families impacted by trauma, abuse, neglect, disrupted attachment and family violence.
As a Senior Specialist Family Violence Counsellor, you'll deliver therapeutic counselling to adult victim survivors while contributing your expertise through consultation, reflective practice and multidisciplinary collaboration.
Working across both the Take Two therapeutic service and Berry Street Yooralla's specialist Family Violence Program, you'll deliver trauma-informed counselling and therapeutic support as part of an integrated service that places safety, recovery and client choice at the centre of practice.
Our Family Violence Program provides specialist support to victim survivors and their children, to remain safely connected to their communities and move towards lives free from violence. Through collaborative, person-centred practice, we help individuals navigate the emotional and practical impacts of family violence while strengthening wellbeing, resilience and independence.
This is an opportunity to apply your specialist family violence expertise beyond direct counselling. Alongside therapeutic work, you'll provide consultation, contribute to reflective practice and support colleagues working with victim survivors across a range of service settings. You'll join a highly skilled multidisciplinary team committed to delivering best-practice therapeutic responses and improving outcomes for victim survivors and their families
We are looking for individuals with specialist family violence experience, strong therapeutic counselling skills and the ability to analyse and respond to the complex issues experienced by victim survivors.
You'll be confident working collaboratively across services, providing specialist consultation to colleagues and contributing to a culture of reflective, evidence-informed practice.
Please see https://www.vic.gov.au/mandatory-minimum-qualificationsspecialist-family-violence-practitioners for further information.
Please apply via the link with your resume and cover letter addressing the key selection criteria.
We believe in diversity, inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of the Victorian community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings, and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies.
We encourage applications from people with lived experience of disability. You'll receive adjustments and support throughout the whole process — from the application stage to starting in the workplace. If you require the position description in a different format or any accommodation or assistance during the application and interview stages please contact the person listed on the ad or alternatively email recruitment@berrystreet.org.au
Berry Street Yooralla is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.
Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a NDIS Screening Check, Working with Children Check and National and International Police check (if required) and NDIS training.
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.
