Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $110,000 - $120,000
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Health and allied health
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: 6941
Family Violence Practice Leader – Adults Using Family Violence
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:
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:
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
Learning and development opportunities
Community impact and inclusion
Organisational culture and environment
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 [email protected].
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.