Excellent opportunity at Swinburne within our Safer Community Team
Full-time, 12 month fixed-term position at our Hawthorn campus
HEW 8 + 17% super and attractive staff benefits

About the Role
Are you passionate about creating a safer and more inclusive community? Swinburne University is looking for a dedicated and experienced professional to join our team as a Senior Safer Community Advisor.

As a Senior Safer Community Advisor, you will play a key leadership role within the Safer Community team. This is a fixed-term 12-month position designed to support the Manager, Safer Community, in focusing on strategic priorities, including the implementation of Swinburne’s Sexual Harm and Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Action Plan.

Your responsibilities will include:
· Behavioural risk assessment and management
· Supervision and operational support
· Record keeping and reporting
· Prevention and engagement initiatives
· Stakeholder engagement and representation

About You
To be suitable for this role you will need to have experience in the below key accountabilities:
· Strong interpersonal skills, including managing persons in crisis and those who are highly emotional, aggressive or suicidal
· Demonstrated skills and experience in working with a multidisciplinary team, including managing behavioural risks in a frontline service
· Experience providing peer support, mentoring or informal supervision in a team environment.
· Demonstrated skills in investigation, case analysis, case formulation and case management
· Highly-developed report-writing and presentation skills and proven ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds

Qualifications
· Postgraduate qualifications or progress towards postgraduate qualifications and extensive relevant experience; or extensive experience in areas of psychology, social work, legal or related disciplines and management expertise; or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.
· Registration and membership to applicable professional bodies, e.g., Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), Asia Pacific Association of Threat Assessment Professional (APATAP), Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW), etc.

About Swinburne University of Technology
Swinburne’s strategy draws upon our understanding of future challenges. We choose to build Swinburne as the prototype of a new and different university – one that is truly of Technology, of Innovation and of Entrepreneurship. We are committed to a differentiated university proposition in education and research.

To Apply
Please submit your CV and cover letter addressing your suitability for this position.

To review the Position Description and to apply, please scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Please Note: Appointment to this position is subject to passing a Working with Children Check.

Applications Close: 11pm, Sunday 25th May 2025

Swinburne offers flexible working options contained in our leave and parenting/carer policies to support work-life balance.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Swinburne has become a world-class university, driving social and economic impacts through science, technology, and innovation. As a dual-sector university, our vision is for people and technology working together to build a better world.

Central to our vision is our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer focused on attracting, retaining, and developing great talent. We work to remove barriers related to gender identity, culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, and age.

We strongly encourage applicants from diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Our Moondani Toombadool Centre leads our Indigenous education and culture at Swinburne, guided by community wisdom and leadership.

We support applicants with disabilities. Adjustments can be requested at any time during the recruitment process.