Job title: Family Violence – Team Leader
Company: VACCA
Job description:
- Full-Time, Permanent Ongoing
- $102,546 – $107,074 plus Super (based on skills and experience) and the option of salary packaging
- Melton Location
The Organisation
The Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) is the largest organization of its kind in Australia. VACCA is an Aboriginal community-controlled organization that supports and advocates for the Aboriginal community. Central to VACCA’s work is the importance of connection to family, community and culture as essential to Aboriginal children’s safety, stability and ensuring that they have an ongoing sense of belonging.
About the role
The Team Leader position will provide leadership, direction and support to family violence therapeutic counsellors, group facilitators and case managers/ workers employed within the family violence program. The role proactively ensures broad engagement with other VACCA programs.
Team Leader positions will oversee staff delivery of one or more of the following:
- 1:1 trauma-informed assessment and Therapeutic case management support to Aboriginal community members who are impacted by family violence
- Therapeutic case management support to staff working with Young people who use violence in the home.
- Monitor groups with Aboriginal children will create positive and age-appropriate entry points for them to engage and to heal their understanding of their parents, family and history where impacted by family violence.
- Monitor groups with Aboriginal adolescents will provide a platform for them to speak to other young people in a meaningful and relevant way and change behaviours
This position will provide staff with regular professional supervision and appropriate development and training opportunities to provide a quality service and will receive therapeutic professional supervision from the Family Violence Principal Practitioner.
What we can offer you!!
- Professional support and training via in-house learning and development training modules
- Attractive salary packaging to increase your take-home pay
- Great career development opportunities.
- Fitness Passport – allowing you (and your family) access to any of the facilities available on this program.
- Access to Employee support and well-being program(s)
- Opportunity to work and build connections with the Aboriginal Community and culture
We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people to apply
Applications should include a cover letter addressing the key selection criteria and a current resume.
We encourage applicants to view the Position Description prior to applying
Application closes by 31 March 2024 by 11.59pm
We are committed to Aboriginal self-determination and supporting strong, safe, thriving Aboriginal communities and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity, honouring all cultural backgrounds, abilities, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities and spiritual beliefs.
VACCA is a child-safe organisation and is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children and young people with zero tolerance for child abuse. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a National Police Record Check and Working with Children Check prior to commencement of employment and periodically following commencement.
VACCA is an equal-opportunity employer and has a smoke-free workplace policy
Expected salary: $102546 – 107074 per year
Location: Australia
Job date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 08:13:19 GMT
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