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Who we are...

Berry Street is Victoria's largest independent child and family welfare organisation.

Berry Street believes all children should have a good childhood, growing up in families and communities where they feel safe, nurtured and have hope for the future.  To find out more information visit Our Services or Who we are pages.

Our Values...

At Berry Street, Our core values of Courage, Integrity, Respect, Accountability and Working Together guide our day to day work and our interactions with each other. For more information visit Our Values page.

If you believe in the work we do and identify with our Values, you should consider joining our team.

Why work with us...

Working at Berry Street you will:

• Be supported to be the best you can be. We have a strong focus on support and supervision, ensuring our staff are provided with the environment to reflect on their work and practice.
  
  
• Be provided with learning opportunities. We have a comprehensive internal training calendar and our staff are provided with many learning opportunities. 75% of our staff strongly agree that they have had appropriate professional development in the last 12 months. We may also support staff with study if it will develop their skills in their current or aspiration role.
  
  
• Work in a supportive work environment. In addition to supervision, we provide an Employee Assistance Program, debriefing (when required), have Equal Opportunity Contact Officers and encourage open communication between staff and their managers. "Berry Street is an organisation that attracts workers who are of similar spirit and are client focused. My team is very well supported by my manager and team leaders. I am proud to say I work for Berry Street"
  
  
• Be encouraged to participate in service improvement and policy development through the annual Employee Opinion Survey, team meetings and various internal forums.
  
  
• Have available to you a range of options to help you balance your work and home commitments. We have paid parental leave, carers leave, study leave and other flexible working arrangements may be negotiated, depending on the requirements of the role. Some roles are part time and our residential services program offers shift work. Whilst the hours in most positions are fixed, we are flexible with start and finish times.
  
  
• Have options for increasing remuneration through salary packaging. We pay above award rates and with the option for salary packaging the salary we offer is competitive.

In addition, we are a finalist in the 2009 Work Safe Awards for the category of Best Strategy for Health and Safety Management.   We are delighted that our focus on the well being of our clients and staff has been acknowledged in this way.

Why work at Berry Street - some more reasons...

94% of our staff would recommend Berry Street as a good place to work.

A selection of staff comments from the 2009 Employee Opinion Survey:

• "Over all the Berry Street culture is a fantastic one most people who come to work here /students on placement do not wish to leave."
• "I think one of the greatest benefits of working at Berry Street is that the organisation genuinely cares about staff. This assists in ensuring a high quality of service delivery to clients."
• "Berry street has been a fantastic organisation, with plenty of growth, and I am glad that I have be able to join the team, and progress so quickly, in such a strong, supported organisation."

Plus a couple of direct messages from staff: 

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank Berry Street for the amazing time I have had over the past five years whilst working with Berry Street.  I have enjoyed my work and had the opportunity to meet and work along-side some inspiring people. I am one of those lucky people who woke up happy and excited about going to 'work'!". Lisa (past-staff member).

"I feel privileged to work for an organisation that is so committed to the wellbeing of children, and that also values and supports its staff in so many ways. To be honest, I can't imagine doing this work without such a culture of commitment and support surrounding me". Sylvia (current staff member).