About The Organisation:

The Centre for Non-Violence (CNV) is a leading and innovative specialist Family Violence organisation with a vision of gender and social equality for all.

Benefits of working at CNV:

• Take advantage of our above award wages and salary package up to $15,860 (tax free).
• Enjoy our generous leave entitlements which includes 4 weeks annual leave, 1 week of bonus leave, cultural leave, and above award personal leave entitlements.
• Access ongoing training, professional skills enhancement, and career development opportunities.
• Thrive at work by tapping into our workplace health and wellbeing initiatives, flexible work arrangements and diverse working environment.

About the role:

Located within our Pall Mall Bendigo office the role of Team Leader is full time 1.0 FTE (38 hours per week) on an ongoing basis. This position will join our well-established management team and contribute to the ongoing success of our passionate, professional, and highly skilled staff.

The role of Team Leader provides day to day oversight, work allocation, and supervision for CNV’s specialist family violence staff, and as such we are seeking a candidate with exceptional leadership and organisational skills.

To be considered for this position you will have:

• Relevant qualifications and/or experience in social work, community services and/or a related field. A Social Work degree is highly desirable.
• Experience in supervising, leading and mentoring staff in a community services field with demonstrated experience to problem solve, encourage, and influence change within a team and the ability to lead, motivate, develop, and mentor staff.
• At least two years’ experience in a family violence or related role.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of family violence and child safety and wellbeing in accordance with service philosophies.
• Extensive experience in providing case work to individuals and/or families experiencing complex needs and risk issues including a sound knowledge of referral pathways.

Application Process:

To be considered for this role applicants must submit a cover letter and current resume. Employment will be subject to a satisfactory Working with Children’s check and satisfactory criminal record history check prior to commencement.

For more information about this role or the application process, contact People and Culture on 03 5430 3000 and visit our website https://www.cnv.org.au/job-application-process.

Apply as soon as possible.

We will review applications as they come in and may close the advertisement earlier.

CNV is a child safe organisation.

CNV is an equal opportunity employer.

A position description is attached.