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Team Leader - Family Violence Initiatives

Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency
  • Position : Full Time, Ongoing position
  • Salary : $97,815 to $101,899, plus super (based on skills and experience)
  • Location : Preston

The Organisation

Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) is the largest organisation of its kind in Australia, employing more than 600 employees and delivering more than 70 programs across Victoria. VACCA is an Aboriginal community-controlled organisation that supports and advocates for the Aboriginal community. Our strength lies with our people. Our team is committed to the organisation's vision and values; advocates for our children and other vulnerable community members; and shows respect for, observance and compliance with Aboriginal cultural protocols, practice and ceremony. Our Aboriginality is what distinguishes us from mainstream services and what enables us to deliver the positive outcomes we achieve for our people.

About the role

Reporting to the Family Violence Senior Manager & Practice Lead, the Team Leader role will be responsible for overseeing a number of exciting projects, new initiatives and pilots. This multidisciplinary role brings together the Family Violence Initiatives Team Leader’s experience and understanding of people leadership, quality and service improvement, enhancing service practice, and supporting the organisation to deliver culturally responsive programs and policies which meet the needs of vulnerable Aboriginal children, families and Community in line with VACCA’s vision and strategy.

The Team Leader will develop and lead a highly competent, engaged, and professional team of family violence project officers

Key components of this role are:

  • Supporting the implementation of new projects and programs within VACCA regions, ensuring quality and consistent practice
  • Development of program manuals, program logics, practice tools and forms
  • Representing VACCA at relevant family violence forums
  • Overseeing quality assurance of VACCA’s current and future family violence programs
  • Advocating for a centralised body of best practice for family violence programs across VACCA
  • Supporting day to day operations for existing projects to ensure they are delivered in a timely fashion and quality standard
  • Providing support and supervision to a team of highly skilled project officers

About You

  • Appropriate qualifications in Social Work, Health Services or a related discipline is essential
  • Substantial and relevant experience working across Family Violence and Child and Family Welfare Services with Aboriginal communities
  • Demonstrated understanding and knowledge of Aboriginal culture and value and the importance of identity, and cultural connections in the healing process for Aboriginal children and families.
  • Demonstrated experience in successfully implementing and delivering of a range of family violence programs to Aboriginal women, men, children and families
  • Proven ability and experience in leading and supervising staff and the capacity to lead and develop new initiatives.

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

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