• Position: on Casual basis
• Salary: $30.45 to $33.23 per hour (based on skills & experience)
• Location: Morwell

The Organisation

The Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) is an Aboriginal Community-Controlled organisation that supports and advocates for the Aboriginal Community and is the largest organisation of it’s kind in Australia. The VACCA team is committed to the organisation’s visions and values, passionately providing support, service and advocacy for our children and other vulnerable members of the community.

Our Aboriginality is what distinguishes us from other community organisations and it is why we are able to deliver positive outcomes that lead to ongoing change.

Our strength lies with our people, and all people are welcome at VACCA!

About the role

The Morwell office of VACCA delivers a number of programs to Aboriginal children and families including Kurnai Youth Homelessness Service, Family Violence, Aboriginal Family Mental Health Support Service, Aboriginal Leaving Care, the Aboriginal Child and Specialist Advice and Support Service (ACSASS) also known as the Lakidjeka Program.

Orana Gunyah situated in Morwell, Gippsland will provide a suite of crisis accommodation and support services to women and their accompanying children from across the state. The cluster model facility will provide short term accommodation for up to five women and their children at a time. In addition to the five self-contained units, the site provides a staff support facility enabling the site to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week and for support services to be delivered on site (case management, outreach, advocacy and referral). The tenancy and property management responsibilities for the five units will be provided by our partner Community Housing Limited (CHL).

This position provides a culturally appropriate response to Aboriginal women and children who are experiencing or escaping family violence and also ensures the safety and security of residents and staff at Orana Gunyah, monitoring of the site, signing in visitors, restricting access of known perpetrators, engaging police or emergency services during afterhours and sleepover shifts.

About You

• Awareness and appreciation of Aboriginal societies and cultures and an understanding of the issues affecting Aboriginal people in contemporary Australia and the diversity of circumstances of Aboriginal people
• Demonstrated capacity to work alone with a degree of leadership that includes the paramount responsibility for the safety and security of the residents and staff on site.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a cohesive, responsible and dynamic team.
• Have well developed written, computer, verbal and communication skills.
• Ability to work flexible hours and to participate in an on-call roster.
• Requirement: Current COVID-19 vaccination (including booster dose, as applicable), a Working with Children’s Check for a paid employee (or willingness to obtain) and a Victorian Drivers Licence

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.
• Access to Employee support and wellbeing program(s)
• Opportunity to work and build connection 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 current resume.

We encourage applicants to view the Position Description prior to applying. Please click here to view the position description.

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.

A position description is attached.