Practitioner Qualifications
All specialist family violence response roles hired after 1 July 2021 must hold or be ‘working towards’ an Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) Level 7 or above qualification in family violence or a related discipline. The hiring organisation is responsible for determining if the discipline is related.
AQF Level 7 qualifications include Bachelor’s Degrees, Graduate Certificates, and Master’s Degrees. Visit the Australian Qualifications Framework website[1] for a full list AQF Level 7 and above qualifications.
The following list provides examples of disciplines that could be considered ‘related’ to family violence. This list is not exhaustive and is intended as guidance only:
- alcohol and other drugs
- child and family studies
- community development
- community services
- community welfare
- counselling
- criminology / criminal justice
- disability
- education
- gender studies
- Indigenous studies
- mental health
- midwifery
- nursing
- psychiatry
- psychology
- public health
- sociology / social sciences
- social work
- youth justice
- youth work.
