• Family Violence - mens specialist
• Hume Moreland
• Part time (3 days )

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.

It will work collaboratively with other partners with Orange Door and the community in keeping woman, children, and men safe from Family Violence.

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 partnership? 

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. 

Role of The Orange Door

The Orange Door delivers 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, young people, 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 supports the agency of women, children, young people, and families, to ensure that the services they receive meet their needs and their goals.

The Orange Door Team 

Orange Doors 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 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

• Successful candidates will be required to undergo a National Police Check, International Police Check (if applicable), an international residency statutory declaration and hold a valid employment WWCC  
• Full driver license and travel between sites required.