Strengthening Families Practitioner

• Join a highly experienced, reflective team|full time|permanent
• Bring your Family Services expertise to a leading provider
• Create change for children and families experiencing complexity

Your role:

This is an opportunity to join our Strengthening Families stream, supporting children, young people and families experiencing cumulative and escalating needs.

Working across the Bendigo region, you will provide intensive in-home family support with a strong focus on strengthening parenting capacity, improving family functioning and reducing risk to children.

With a caseload of approximately 10 families, this role offers the opportunity to work deeply and intentionally, balancing risk management with relationship-based intervention.

This role also marks an exciting evolution as the program returns to its original foundations under the Strengthening Families model creating opportunities to contribute to practice growth and shape the future direction of the work.

Make your mark:

• Deliver intensive in-home interventions that strengthen parenting capacity, safety and family resilience.
• Work collaboratively with families experiencing complexity including family violence, mental health concerns, AOD impacts, disability and Child Protection involvement.
• Undertake assessments, develop action plans and coordinate supports aimed at improving outcomes for children.
• Apply trauma-informed, attachment-based and child-focused practice approaches.
• Engage all members of the family system, including working respectfully and safely with people using violence where appropriate.
• Build and maintain relationships with schools, behaviour supports, NDIS providers, Child Protection and community services.
• Facilitate care teams, manage case documentation and contribute to coordinated responses.
• Use reflective practice and critical thinking to respond to changing family circumstances and risk.
• Experience using the NCFAS will be highly regarded.

Make it work:

• Salary at SCHCADS Level 5, approximately $105,557 plus super.
• Salary progression available up to Level 5.3, dependent on experience.
• Full time, permanent.
• Based from our Bendigo office (pool cars are used for travel).
• Office-based team model with core office days and some flex to work from home.
• Highly supported practice environment (fortnightly supervision + group supervision + senior practitioner depth).
• Access our Well Worth It! Program, Fitness Passport, EIP and EAP.
• Discounted private health insurance options.
• Inclusive workplace culture where people feel safe, respected and supported.
• Dedicated Learning and Development opportunities to continue building your practice and career

What our people say: “This role may be especially attractive to experienced Family Services practitioners, practitioners within Integrated Family Services, or professionals looking to transition from Child Protection into longer-term relationship-based work”

Ready to take the next step:

Click apply wherever you see the advert which will take you to our careers page or open up the application portal, click apply and submit your resume with a cover letter through the portal. Describe your passion for working with vulnerable children, young people and their families and your motivation to apply.

We use generic position descriptions that describe an overall account of the program not specific to this role:  Practitioner PD FS SF E AW5 062026 V1.1 (7).pdf

For further enquiries contact Brenton Pattison via email at Brenton.Pattison@anglicarevic.org.au to arrange a catch up.

Please apply as soon as possible as we will be reviewing applications as they come in. The closing date is Sunday 20th September.

Please Note: It is mandatory for the successful applicant to hold a current Working with Children Check and be prepared to undergo a National Criminal History Check prior to commencement.

Anglicare Victoria acknowledges Aboriginal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we operate. We commit to working respectfully to honour their ongoing cultural and spiritual connections to this country.

Diversity and inclusivity are important to Anglicare Victoria and we are committed to ensuring our workplace and services reflect this.  Everyone is welcome at Anglicare Victoria, regardless of age, ethnicity, cultural background, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation and physical ability.