Adults Using Family Violence Practice Leader
Family Violence Practice Leader – Adults Using Family Violence
- Location: Werribee/Footscray
- Employment Type: Ongoing, Full Time
- Salary: Social Worker Grade 3
About the role:
We are seeking an experienced and committed Family Violence Practice Leader to join our team, focusing on working with Adults Using Family Violence within the state’s specialist family violence and child wellbeing service.
The Orange Door provides the first response for individuals and families seeking assistance regarding family violence, people using family violence, and those presenting with child wellbeing concerns. While our primary focus is responding to people using family violence, the Orange Door model emphasizes an integrated, collaborative approach that prioritizes the safety and wellbeing of all clients and their families.
As a Practice Leader, you will:
- Lead and support practice excellence in responding to adults using family violence.
- Offer expert guidance and case consultation to practitioners, ensuring interventions are safe, effective, and both trauma- and violence-informed
- Collaborate with multi-agency teams to address complex family violence and child wellbeing matters.
- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of integrated service delivery model.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in the community, shaping how services respond to family violence and ensuring families receive coordinated, compassionate support.
Key responsibilities:
- Practice Leadership & Guidance: Provide expert guidance, case consultation, and direction to practitioners, ensuring interventions with adults using family violence are safe, effective, trauma-informed, and violence-informed.
- Integrated Service Delivery: Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams within The Orange Door to ensure a coordinated, holistic response for clients and their families.
- Capacity Building & Training: Support the development of staff skills and knowledge through mentoring, coaching, and the delivery of practice development initiatives focused on working with adults using family violence.
- Practice Development: Contribute to the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of policies, procedures, and practice frameworks aligned with best practice in family violence intervention.
- Risk Assessment & Safety Planning: Guide practitioners in the assessment of risk and formulation of safety plans, ensuring both victims and children’s safety are prioritized while engaging with adults using family violence.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external partners, including specialist family violence services, child protection, and community agencies.
About you:
You are an experienced family violence professional with a strong focus on responding to adults using family violence. You bring leadership, practice expertise, and expert guidance, supporting practitioners to deliver safe, effective, trauma- and violence-informed interventions. You thrive in collaborative, multidisciplinary environments, building strong relationships with practitioners and stakeholders to deliver integrated, client-centered responses that prioritize safety and wellbeing.
About Western Health:
Western Health is one of the largest healthcare providers in Victoria, caring for a vibrant, diverse and rapidly growing community of one million people in Melbourne’s western suburbs. With more than 13,000 staff, Western Health delivers 800,000+ occasions of care every year, providing high-quality, person-centred care across every life stage.
We provide a combination of hospital, community-based, at-home and in-reach services to aged, adult and paediatric patients and newborn babies. Specialties include oncology, renal, mental health, women’s health and maternity, chronic diseases, geriatrics and cardiology.
We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions. Our experience at the coalface of healthcare delivery for some of Australia’s most culturally and socioeconomically diverse and vulnerable populations provides us with unique insights into the most pressing health challenges.Western Health operates four acute public hospitals: Sunshine Hospital (including Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s), Footscray Hospital, Williamstown Hospital and Bacchus Marsh Hospital. We also operate Sunbury Community Hospital, Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre, Melton Health and Community Services, Bacchus Marsh Community Health Centre, Caroline Springs Community Health Centre and Grant Lodge Residential Aged Care in Bacchus Marsh. Western Health also provides the primary healthcare service at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre; a women’s prison located in Ravenhall.
Why join us?
Compensation and benefits
- Competitive salary packages aligned with market standards.
- Health and wellbeing programs, including flexible work arrangements.
- Scholarships and grants to support your continuous learning journey.
Learning and development opportunities
- Access the Western Health Learning Academy (WHA) for personalised learning pathways.
- Professional growth programs, including postgraduate studies and clinical education.
- Mentorship and career support.
Community impact and inclusion
- Make a meaningful difference in patients’ lives through compassionate care.
- Join a workforce that champions diversity and inclusion.
- Engage in community wellbeing initiatives and groundbreaking healthcare research.
Organisational culture and environment
- Thrive in a collaborative, compassionate and innovative team environment.
- Be part of a culture that celebrates continuous improvement and excellence in healthcare.
Ready to make an impact? Simply click on the “apply” button and follow the prompts.
If you are currently employed at Western Health, please ensure you sign in through the 'Employee Login' via the external Careers Page or access the Careers Page via the intranet before applying.
Closing date: 11:59pm on 10 March 2026.
Enquiries: For further information about this role, contact Gita Chandran on Gita.Chandran@wh.org.au.
Western Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining diversity in our workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Western Health is committed to providing a safe environment for the children and young people who are involved in our services, sites and operations. We follow and abide by all legislative requirements to keep children and young people safe. All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Record Check, an Immunisation Status Clearance and a Working with Children Check (if applicable).
Western Health does not accept unsolicited resumes/applications from recruitment agencies.
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