About the role

The Helpline Senior Practitioner will provide specialist support and leadership within the Stop It Now! Australia team, offering evidence-informed psychoeducation, support and advice to individuals contacting Stop It Now! Australia Helpline due to concerns about their own or someone else’s sexual thoughts or behaviours towards children.

This role will drive evidence-based improvement across the helpline, utilising auditing, and data assessment processes to identify trends, generate insights from data, and strengthen service quality and effectiveness.

This role will also enhance practice quality and team capability through supervision, shift duty management, mentoring, and reflective practice, fostering collaboration and contributing to the ongoing advancement of child sexual abuse prevention nationally.

Competitive remuneration, plus salary packaging benefit, is offered together with ongoing professional and career development as well as opportunities for personal growth.

This role is fully remote/work from home, and will successful candidates to travel to Melbourne for one week of training. We have multiple roles and have flexibility to offer casual, part time or full time hours.

What Jesuit Social Services can offer you:

• An organisation that lives its values, through its day to day work
• A welcoming and supportive relational environment
• A comprehensive Induction and Orientation program
• Ongoing training and development related to your role
• Employee assistance program
• A competitive salary plus salary packaging benefits
• Generous leave

About the program

Stop It Now! Australia

Stop It Now! is a child sexual abuse prevention program which works with individuals concerned about their own or someone else’s sexual thoughts or behaviours towards children. It was first established by a victim-survivor of child sexual abuse in the U.S 30 years ago, and we have been delivering the service here in Australia for over two years. We have recently received federal funding to expand and develop a larger scale Offender Prevention Service based on the Stop It Now! Pilot program. We are currently building an exceptional new team to help lead the national expansion of this prevention service.

The program’s key feature is an anonymous phone helpline for people who are worried about their own sexual thoughts and behaviours in relation to children, as well as professionals and family members who are concerned about the behaviour of others. The service also includes a website with advice, self-help materials and guidance to raise awareness around child sexual abuse. Stop It Now! Australia is dedicated to preventing the sexual abuse and exploitation of children and seeks to achieve this by engaging with adults who may go on to harm children, and other protective adults. While the service can be accessed anonymously, all mandatory reporting guidelines are complied with.

The Stop It Now! Australia service sits within the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention team and is part of The Men’s Project at Jesuit Social Services. 

The Men’s Project 

The Men’s Project is an initiative of Jesuit Social Services launched in 2017. It provides leadership on the reduction of violence and other harmful behaviours prevalent among boys and men, and builds approaches to improve their wellbeing and keep families and communities safe.

Our vision is for good men, respectful relationships and safe communities.

We will achieve this by:

· research to understand the behaviours and underlying attitudes of men and boys including related to violence, child sexual abuse and the well-being of men and boys themselves.

· promoting positive change around gender norms related to what it means to be a man in the 21st century as well as building skills to intervene to prevent violence; and

· developing innovative ways to stop cycles of violence and harmful behaviour among boys and men.

Current priorities for The Men’s Project include:

· drawing on our Man Box research and child sexual abuse prevalence study, building a greater understanding of perpetration including opportunities for prevention and early intervention;

· supporting people who work with men and boys every day (e.g. teachers, sports coaches, social workers) to prevent violence and improve the well-being of men and boys;

· developing new early intervention approaches with adolescents at-risk of using violence;

· strengthening early intervention responses for adults and young people to prevent child sexual abuse; and

· drawing on our grounded practice experience, advocating for systemic changes that seek to prevent violence and child sexual abuse.

The Men’s Project builds on Jesuit Social Services’ over 45 year engagement with boys and men in trouble, but it also involves us leading new work to reduce violence, to improve the wellbeing of boys and men, and to keep families and communities safe.