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Aboriginal Lead Practitioner - The Orange Door (Identified Role) - Bendigo

Bendigo and District Aboriginal Co-op

About BDAC

BDAC is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, and provides a range of specialist services for clients based primarily in the Dja Dja Wurrung including Health and Wellbeing services, Family and Community Services and Corporate services.

What We Are Offering

  • SCHADS Grade 7 salary + 10.5% super
  • Full Time, 38 Hours per week
  • Access to Salary Packaging
  • Ongoing training opportunities
  • Supportive work environment

The Position

Role of The Orange Door

The Orange Door will deliver a fundamental change to the way we work with women, children and families, and men. The role of The Orange Door is to provide:

  • A more visible contact point so that people know where to go for specialist support
  • Help for people to identify family violence and child and family safety and wellbeing issues
  • Advice based on contemporary risk assessment tools and guidance and best available information
  • Specialist support and tailored advice for victims, families and children, and perpetrators
  • A strong focus on perpetrator accountability • connection and coordination of access to support
  • An approach across the spectrum of prevention, early intervention and response
  • A system-wide view of service capacity, client experience and outcomes.

The Orange Door will support the agency of women, children and families, to ensure that the services they receive meet their needs and their goals.

The Orange Door Team

The Orange Door will bring together different workforces and practices to create an integrated The Orange Door team and a consolidated intake point in each The Orange Door area to create a new way of support for:

  • Women, children, young people and families experiencing family violence
  • Perpetrators of family violence
  • Families in need of support with the care, development and well-being of children.

This will be achieved by drawing on the expertise of CSOs and bringing together workers from organisations that currently:

  • Receive police referrals for women who are victims of family violence
  • Receive police referrals for perpetrators of family violence (known as ‘Enhanced Intake Services’)
  • Receive child wellbeing referrals
  • Provide the Child FIRST service
  • Deliver other relevant services as appropriate, such as those delivered by Aboriginal services.

The Orange Door Team will include a mix of staff employed by FSV and staff employed by CSOs, Aboriginal services and DHHS.

The Aboriginal Lead Practitioner will be part of two teams – The Orange Door Team and the BDAC Family Safety team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Leading and supporting culturally safe and responsive practice in The Orange Door with Aboriginal children, families and perpetrators
  • Leading, mentoring and developing Hub practitioners and team leaders in working with Aboriginal children, families and perpetrators
  • Building the cultural safety of The Orange Door and supporting choice and self-determination of Aboriginal people.
  • Liaising with and providing specialist or secondary consultation to organisations and services within The Orange Door network in order to discuss direct service issues for Aboriginal people accessing services through The Orange Door.
  • Working with local Aboriginal governance groups to provide connection between Aboriginal services, communities and The Orange Door.
  • Working collaboratively with the Hub Manager and Service System Navigator to build and maintain effective partnerships with Aboriginal services to support choice for Aboriginal people.
  • Managing stakeholders through effective negotiation and influence, harnessing this network to support Aboriginal people and ensure effective The Orange Door operations.
  • Oversee, monitor and deliver projects to respond to local needs, ensuring they are delivered in a culturally safe and effective way.

Key Selection Criteria

  • Must identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
  • Strong contemporary knowledge of Aboriginal culture, aspirations and self-determination: has a strong understanding of the local service delivery environment for Aboriginal children and families and communities in the local area. Additional recognition will given to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants.
  • Strong analytical, organisational and coordinating skills. Effectiveness in developing tasks and managing resources to achieve targets within set time frames.
  • Works collaboratively to drive cultural change: has a clear concept of the culture required to deliver effective, culturally safe and responsive services for Aboriginal people within an integrated practice context; delivers innovative practices that enhance quality outcomes for Aboriginal people; understands how to build and establish effective support networks.
  • Relevant tertiary qualifications and expert knowledge and experience within Aboriginal services: has established expertise and capability to lead and embed culturally safe and responsive practice as part of an integrated service model of collaborative service delivery and quality clinical practice in the Hubs; has highly developed negotiation and relationship building skills; understands the role of the law and legal system in the context of responding to family violence; has knowledge of practice with Aboriginal women, children, families, victims and perpetrators of family violence.
  • Relationship building: establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements; forges useful partnerships with people across business areas, functions and organisations; builds trust through consistent actions, values and communication; minimises surprises.
  • Initiative and accountability: proactive and self-starting; seizes opportunities and acts upon them; takes responsibility for own actions.
  • Teamwork: cooperates and works well with others in pursuit of team goals, collaborates and shares information, shows consideration, concern and respect for others feelings and ideas, accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others, encourages resolution of conflict within the group.

Preferred / Desired Education, Training and/or Competencies

  • A recognised Social Work Degree or Community Services qualification, and/or extensive relevant work experience.

Mandatory Employment Requirements

Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (Police check, reference check and Working with Children's Check) will be completed prior to the candidate’s employment being confirmed.

You must also be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to work at BDAC.

For more information about this position please see the Position Description available at www.bdac.com.au or contact our human resources team on (03) 5442 4947 or send an email through to [email protected] using the subject line: Aboriginal Lead Practitioner - The Orange Door (Identified Role) - Bendigo enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Please note: This is an Aboriginal Designated Position, classified under 'special measures' of section 12 of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010. Only Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are eligible to apply.

A position description is attached.

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