Spectrum

2 days per week - days can be negotiated

• 2 days per week
• Based in Broadmeadows

The Broadmeadows Family Relationship Centre is a funded service overseen by a consortium that includes MacKillop Family Services (lead agency), Relationships Australia (Victoria) and Spectrum Migrant Resource centre. The centre helps separating families to achieve workable parenting arrangements outside the court system by providing information, support, referral and dispute resolution services in culturally appropriate ways.

A unique focus of this centre will be to provide culturally appropriate mediation services to culturally and linguistically diverse communities living in the City of Hume through the employment of staff with explicit cultural competency skills and understanding of the family dynamics of migrant communities who are seeking interventions that take into account cultural practices, kith, kinship, tribal and religious observances in the resolution of family disputes and separation issues.

The Family Relationship Centre operates within a defined legislative and regulatory framework. Centre staff members must therefore comply with all relevant contractual, regulatory and legislative requirements in regard to service delivery and maintain a high level of accountability and reporting.

The Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner’s role is to provide quality dispute resolution services to families, ensuring that practice is culturally appropriate.

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Essential

Qualifications

• Social Work Degree/Counselling/Psychology Degree/Social Science Degree/ or equivalent to this range of qualifications
• Qualifications in family dispute resolution
• Achieve a satisfactory Working With Children Check Card – essential
• Ability to meet Accreditation standards of the Family Law Act Regulations

Knowledge

• To be culturally competent with an understanding of the operation of cultural norms and values among diverse populations and socially excluded groups, in family functioning, in intervention design and how these will effect views of the Australian system and use/non use/rejection of its systems throughout the resolution process
• Demonstrable skills in assessment and screening for family violence and child focus skills
• An understanding of family violence and its effect on members of the family group, particularly children
• Casework experience with newly arrived and migrant groups
• Ability to undertake complex casework
• Understanding of family law act and an understanding of the role of family relationship centres

Skills

• Ability to work as part of a team
• Well developed oral and written communication skills
• Public speaking and training & facilitation skills
• Good organizational and record keeping skills
• Ability to work with interpreters and in co facilitation arrangements with kith, kin, community leaders and other significant parties nominated by the client
• Demonstrated experience and strong commitment to client casework and coordination with culturally diverse clients
• Strong advocacy skills with culturally and linguistically diverse client groups especially clients from humanitarian and refugee backgrounds
• Familiarity with MS office applications
• Demonstrated positive values of integrity, accountability, reliability, working as part of a team consistent with the requirements of the contract and Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre.

Other Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Ability to speak a relevant second language will be highly regarded
• A current driver’s licence

Please email applications by COB 13 March 2009 to:

jobs@spectrumvic.org.au

Enquiries to Sonia Vignjevic, Manager Settlement & Family Services on 9496 0206