Job Description
Children Specialist Practitioner
Salary: 100K - 105K
Full-time Child & Youth Specialist delivering therapeutic, child-focused interventions within Family Violence services across Broken Hill, New South Wales.
Child and Youth Specialist Practitioner - Broken Hill
Salary: 100K - 105K + salary packaging + super
Benefits
Salary packaging to maximise your take-home pay
Relocation support available for eligible candidates
Ongoing professional development and training
Supportive, values-driven and child-safe workplace
Why work in this role?
This is an opportunity to step into a specialist role where your expertise directly supports infants, children and young people impacted by family violence. You will work within a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment that values trauma-informed, child-focused practice and provides strong professional support.
Your work will contribute to meaningful, long-term outcomes for children, caregivers and families navigating complex circumstances.
About the Role
We are recruiting an experienced Specialist Children Practitioner to join a Family Violence service delivering integrated, high-quality therapeutic responses for children and young people aged 0-18.
This role focuses on specialist child assessment, therapeutic intervention, staff consultation and the coordination of child-focused practice across Family Violence programs.
Ideal experience includes sexual assault counselling, family violence, family preservation and reunification.
Key Duties
Deliver specialist child-focused therapeutic interventions and group programs
Conduct child-specific risk assessments, safety planning and case planning
Provide secondary consultation, coaching and professional guidance to staff
Support caregivers and children using trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate approaches
Collaborate with internal teams and external services to ensure integrated, wrap-around support
Skills & Experience
Essential:
Degree qualification in Social Work, Psychology, Community Development or related field
Experience working with children and families impacted by trauma and family violence
Demonstrated child-focused, trauma-informed practice
Strong communication, assessment and case management skills
Current Victorian Driver's Licence
Highly Desirable:
Experience in sexual assault counselling
Experience in family preservation and reunification programs
Experience working within Family Violence services
Additional Requirements
Working With Children Check
National Police Check
Ability to meet child safety, compliance and organisational requirements
TRADEWIND AUSTRALIA AND THE ORGANISATIONS WE REPRESENT ARE PROUD TO BE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYERS
Commitment to Child Safety & Inclusion
Tradewind Australia is committed to the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of all children. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and those from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
