Client Support Officer – Top End Women’s Legal Service – Darwin NT

This is a newly created role offered as a six-month contract position. Under the supervision of the TEWLS Client Support Lead, the Client Support Officer will work within TEWLS’ client support practice, with focus on enhancing TEWLS’ integrated services to women and non-binary persons, including but not limited to DFSV safety planning, systems navigation assistance and social supports. The Client Support Officer will work alongside legal and client support staff to provide high-quality, culturally-secure and holistic legal services, working directly with clients to support positive outcomes and liaising with service stakeholders and partners. Critically, the Client Support Officer will have the skills or capacity to upskill to sensitively take instructions from clients who have experienced or are experiencing DFSV, child sexual abuse and other forms of discrimination and abuse by way of trauma-informed best practice principles.