• Lead and develop a dedicated multidisciplinary team
• Hybrid working arrangement to suit your lifestyle
• $56.13 to $58.47 + Super + generous Salary Packaging
• Based in Fairfield and Liverpool South Western Sydney

Anglicare and CatholicCare are collaborating to deliver an exciting new and life changing program called Supporting Recovery. As mission-aligned organisations, Anglicare and CatholicCare care about people and our mission is to make a genuine difference in the lives of people in the community. We are looking for passionate, highly skilled and experienced manager to lead this new program across South Western Sydney.

The Supporting Recovery program will deliver Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence (FDSV) trauma-informed mental health care services within South West Sydney to support victim-survivors in their longer-term recovery.

Key elements of the service include:

• Victim-survivors of FDSV and their families have free access for up to 2 years to evidence-based trauma informed mental health care.
• Provision of psychological therapies and other appropriate wellbeing and social interventions.
• Collaborations with other services to facilitate coordination of care and assist with referral pathways.
• Community engagement activities to increase community awareness.

What you’ll be doing…

In this role you’ll be leading a team of practitioners (multi-disciplinary and / or specialist staff) to achieve best practice and client outcomes.

• Providing direction, support practitioners of different backgrounds to achieve best practice and client outcomes
• Monitoring quality assurance activities and providing specialist advice to managers on service delivery issues, team performance, and related matters
• Provide guidance and oversight to team members on the management of complex and high needs clients within agreed service areas and in line with expertise and qualifications
• Fostering and maintaining positive working relationships with key stakeholders to achieve client, community and funding outcomes
• Ensure service is delivered in line with all relevant contractual obligations and maintain positive and productive relationships with funding account managers
• Carrying a small client caseload

If you would like to find out more about the role, click Apply Now to view the Position Description on our career website.

What our Benefits include

• Professional Growth: Tailored professional development opportunities to support your career ambitions
• Work-Life Balance: Embrace flexibility, hybrid working arrangements, flexible start/finish times, family-friendly organisation
• Tax Savings: Maximise your income with generous salary packaging, reducing your tax and increasing your take-home pay
• Generous Leave: Above-award annual and personal/carers leave, extended parental leave, celebration day
• Supportive Team: Join a friendly and supportive team that values your contributions
• Wellbeing: Free access to a premium mindfulness app, EAP counselling, yearly flu vaccinations, and a variety of wellbeing activities to make your workday more enjoyable

What you will need

• Industry-relevant experience in coordinating services and supporting individuals and teams to deliver client outcomes
• Relevant program specific qualifications, expertise, and professional membership – tertiary degree qualification applicable to the role (e.g. psychology, counselling, social work, nursing or similar) and minimum level 4 ACA or PACFA
• Clinical or APHRA or AASW accreditation
• Demonstrated ability to build and leverage relationships across multi-functional or multi-disciplinary teams to achieve agreed objectives
• Demonstrated understanding of child protection, domestic and family violence and other relevant legislation as required by service
• Demonstrated capacity to implement a person centred approach to service delivery
• High level communication and negotiation skills, strong organisational and time management skills with the ability to multi task and prioritise
• Experience using electronic client record management systems
• A current Working with Children Check

Who are we and what we do

People are at the core of everything we do: from supporting and enhancing the wellbeing of our clients to the nurturing and development of our staff and their career aspirations.

CatholicCare Sydney is a leading not-for-profit agency supporting people from all walks of life. We’re an organisation that promotes diversity and inclusion, and commits to the growth and wellbeing of our staff, empowering them to make a positive change to the community. CatholicCare is the official social services agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney and also a certified Family Friendly Organisation.

Choose a workplace that cares about your growth, happiness, and overall well-being. Join us today!

To be considered for this role, you will need to attach your resume and a cover letter addressing how your skills, knowledge and experience meet the requirements of the role (Address the Selection Criteria in the position description).

Please submit your application as soon as possible as shortlisting for this position will commence immediately.

Need more information? Please contact Kirsten Mead on 02 9707 8514 or [email protected], using the subject line: Practice Manager - Supporting Recovery (FDSV) enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.

At CatholicCare, we believe vaccination to be the best way to keep our people and our communities safe from Covid-19. We require all employees, volunteers and students to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as a condition of engagement.

CatholicCare requires the preferred applicant to undertake a National Criminal History Record Check prior to employment and will also require a Working with Children Check.

CatholicCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Employer of Choice for Women. People of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply; people living with a disability are encouraged to apply.