Therapist / Social Worker

• Southern Sydney
• Permanent Part time
• SCHADS award Level 6 -7 +Super + Salary packaging (salary dependant on qualifications and experience)
• Individual therapeutic support for women with lived or living experience of violence
• Facilitate a space of welcome and sanctuary for women, their children and other gatherings of our community.
• Creative collaboration in the ongoing thinking, responding and evolution of Edie’s Place. 

Edie’s Place is an opportunity to do and think about our responses to women with lived and living experience of violence differently.  

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.   

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, decentreing 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:

You bring a wealth of experience in working therapeutically with women who have experienced violence, and a heartfelt commitment to sitting alongside women in the complexities of their experiences, including parenting in the context of violence. You have a grounding and passion for ongoing learning in current thinking on violence and trauma, a comfortability in the unknown (able to sit with more questions than answers) and a commitment to try to do, and think, about things differently. You hold a deep understanding of our shared humanity, and an openness to collaborative thinking and connections with others in the broader community.

Essential Qualifications and Skills: 

Professional Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work or related discipline, with eligibility or registration for membership with relevant professional bodies.  

Therapeutic experience:

• Demonstrated experience in working therapeutically with women who have experienced violence and abuse (please tell us about the therapeutic modalities you are practiced in).
• 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.  

Professional values:

•  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.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication and relationship building skills.
• Willingness to engage in conversation
• The ability to work collaboratively as a team, and with our community. 

Additional Requirements:

• National Criminal Record Check, Working with Children Check, and eligibility to work in Australia.

• Being female is considered a genuine occupational qualification as per section 31 of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 

Next Steps

To submit your application please click 'Apply Now' by the closing date. 

Should you have any questions, please contact Marion Taylor, Team Leader at info@ediesplace.org using the subject line: Therapist / Social Worker enquiry via EthicalJobs for a friendly confidential chat.

A position description is attached.