• Team Leader Family Violence (Mens Specialist)
• Orange Door Hume Moreland
• Full-time, ongoing opportunity 
  

Your New Organisation

DPV Health is a leading healthcare services provider operating out of Melbourne’s northern growth corridor. Our professional staff deliver a wide variety of clinical, community health and wellbeing services.

At DPV Health we strive ourselves on being inclusive and celebrating the diversity of all people within our communities. We are passionate about helping to support people to lead happy healthy lives. We are dedicated to working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, disability, LGBTIQ, and newly arrived communities.

About the role

Team leader (Men’s) is a leadership position based at HUME MORELAND Orange Door.

This position will proactively build specialist evidence-based specialist knowledge and capability across the Orange Door workforce in line with the Orange Door Service Model and Integrated Practice Framework.

The Orange Door supports the agency of women, children, young people, and families, to ensure that the services they receive meet their needs and their goals. This role will work collaboratively with other partners with Orange Door and the community in keeping women, children, and men safe from Family Violence.

The Orange Door brings together different workforces and practices to create an integrated Orange Door team and a consolidated intake point in each 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 infants, children, and young people.
• Receive police referrals for women who are victim survivors of family violence
• Receive police referrals for perpetrators of family violence (known as ‘Enhanced Intake Services’)
• Deliver other relevant services as appropriate, such as those delivered by Aboriginal services.

About You

We are looking for someone who is:

• A high performing specialist family violence practitioner with extensive experience working with highly sensitive and complex family violence cases.
• Experienced in supporting and developing multi-disciplinary practitioners to work effectively with victim survivors including children, and perpetrators.
• Passionate about service reform, integrated service delivery and improving outcomes for women, children, and families.
• A team player, with strong experience managing stakeholder relationships and working in partnerships.

Pivotal to your success in this rewarding and challenging role, the ideal candidates will possess demonstrable capability in the following areas:

• Knowledge of theory into practice, and the ability to provide advice, coaching and mentoring.
• Ability to work within an Integrated Practice Framework.
• Leadership capability when working in partnership with community service organisations and Family Safety Victoria.
• Managing complex casework.

About the perks

• Salary Packaging – part of your wage is paid tax free each pay, saving thousands in tax each year!
• Work-Life Balance – we understand that work-life balance is important and accommodate flexibility for team members wherever possible.
• Health and Wellbeing – we promote health and wellbeing for our people, just like we would for the communities we serve. We provide flu vaccinations on site and free, confidential counselling services are available just to name a few.
• Professional Development – with access to modern, digital eLearning you’ll have flexibility of course timing with access to shorter, more customised content. Accompanied by face-to-face training, your continual professional development is always top of our priority list.

The fine print

• Full driver license and travel between sites required.

Appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check, Working with Children Check and NDIS Clearance Check. All candidates must have the right to work in Australia.

DPV Health is committed to Equal Opportunity, ethical practice and the principles of cultural diversity and social inclusion. We are committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people.