Therapist - Senior Social Worker

About the role

As an Edie's Place team member, you will offer individual therapeutic support for women who have lived or living experience of violence, host our "Open Home" days where women can come and use the space, facilitate community gatherings, and collaborate with other thinkers and creatives.

Key responsibilities

• Therapeutic support; providing individual and group support to women with lived or living experience of violence, offer therapeutic support to mothers as they parent in the context of violence, decentering practitioner's expertise and being client led
• Facilitating a space of sanctuary; host women and women and their children and other gatherings of community, with the intention that Edie's Place would be useful for women
• A commitment to critical thinking, learning and growth; actively collaborate as part of our team, and individually in the ongoing discovery, exploration and experimentation of new ways of thinking and being

About you

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work or related discipline, with eligibility or registration for membership with relevant professional bodies
• Demonstrated experience in working therapeutically with women who have experienced violence and abuse
• High level knowledge of offering therapeutic support to women as they parent in the context of domestic violence
• Experience working with clients from diverse backgrounds and circumstances
• A critical understanding of the gendered nature of violence and the multiple systemic responses to it
• A demonstrated highly flexible and creative approach to practice
• A commitment to being an active learner evidenced by ongoing reflective practice
• An ongoing ethic of holding women in dignity through violence informed documentation
• Excellent written and verbal communication and relationship building skills
• The ability to work collaboratively as a team, and with our community
• National Criminal Record Check, Working with Children Check, and eligibility to work in Australia

About us

Edie's Place is a not-for-profit located in Southeast Sydney, offering a therapeutic community for women (and their children), with lived and living experience of violence and abuse, seeking emotional safety and connection. Edie's Place hopes to provide a place of beauty and dignity for women who have experienced violence to find what is useful to create difference in their lives, recognising that this is diverse for everyone. The Edie's Place team work diligently together to create a space of sanctuary, in the hope that it provides women with a safe, quiet place to think, reflect and join together. Whilst Edie's Place is not a front-line crisis response to violence, we hold a belief that we are personally and professionally all responders to violence.