Organisation : The Sexual Assault & Family Violence Centre
Location : VIC Regional (Geelong West)
Work type : Full-time
Sector : Community Development
Salary type : Hourly
Application closing date : 7 Oct, 2018
About the organisation
The Orange Door provides a new way of supporting women, children and young people experiencing or at risk of family violence and has changed the way services work with women, children, young people, families and perpetrators of violence. The Orange Door team members are an integrated, collaborative team from The Sexual Assault & Family Violence Centre, Bethany Community Support, Colac Area Health and Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative.
About the role
The Family Violence Specialist Team Leader will provide leadership to a team of Family Violence Specialist Practitioners who receive and manage all family violence referrals for women, children and young people to the Orange Door, including the delivery of client screening, assessment, crisis responses, service planning, targeted interventions, allocation and coordination of referrals. As the Team Leader, you will be accountable for team performance outcomes. You will manage, support and develop team members to build a culture of high performance, collaboration and innovation.
About You
You will be a values driven person, motivated to make a difference and you hold the client at the centre of everything you do. You will have qualifications in social work or a related field and have experience leading a team, including providing supervision and day to day management, managing performance and building capability. You are a positive leader with a strengths based approach and your leadership style inspires and enables team members to reach their full potential. You thrive working collaboratively within a dynamic, team environment.
About The Sexual Assault & Family Violence Centre (formerly Barwon CASA/Minerva)
As an employee of The Sexual Assault & Family Violence Centre, you will join a leading organisation offering a comprehensive suite of services to clients and the community across the Barwon, West Melbourne and Wimmera Regions. Providing specialist sexual assault and family violence programs and services, including case management, therapeutic counselling, early intervention and professional education and training, we continue to grow and develop our offerings.
We pride ourselves on being a great place to work. You care for our clients and we care for you, including by investing in your development and wellbeing. You will have access to leading specialists and training and development that supports you in your role and in your longer term career journey. We offer a variety of career pathway options, leading salary packaging benefits and flexible working arrangements that help you manage your work and your life.
How to apply
Applications not allowed for this job listing.
Please quote in application: Family Violence Specialist Team Leader – The Orange Door via Pro Bono Australia.
Sector: #Community_Development
