Family Violence Practitioner
What the work is
Assists individuals and families experiencing violence to be safe by assessing home life, establishing and implementing safety and intervention plans, and providing ongoing support.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Conducts family violence risk assessments, and establishes, implements, monitors and reviews case plan objectives and goals
- Delivers relevant interventions aimed at increasing safety and wellbeing of the family members of victim survivors
- Provides support to vulnerable and complex families who are experiencing high-risk family violence
- Facilitates referrals to relevant agencies
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a government child and family services office, with visits to homes across a region. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A family you worked with for months tells you they are doing better, and you can see it
- A hard conversation goes better than you feared and trust starts to grow
- A child you were worried about is smiling when you visit, and so is their parent
Hard days
- A caseload so full that every family feels like it needs more time than you have
- A conversation where you are not welcome but have to explain why you are there
- Taking the weight of a hard day home with you, and having to switch off anyway
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 411132, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.