The Role:

VincentCare is seeking an appropriately-qualified person to take on the position of Manager – LGBTQIA+ Inclusion.

Reporting to the Senior Manager – Quality and Innovation, the Manager - LGBTQIA+ Inclusion is responsible for leading the ongoing implementation and management of LGBTQIA+ inclusive practice across VincentCare Victoria and VincentCare Community Housing. The purpose of the role is to ensure the highest possible standards of LGBTQIA+ cultural safety for clients/renters, staff and volunteers are embedded and carried in everything we do.

A significant component of the role is responsibility for maintaining the organisation’s high level of LGBTQIA+ inclusive practice and cultural safety required for maintaining our Rainbow Tick Accreditation. The Manager – LGBTQIA+ Inclusion is responsible for developing and executing a three-year Quality Work Plan that outlines how the organisation will continue to meet all Rainbow Tick Standards and sub indicators, as well as to identify and build upon opportunities for continuous improvement in our LGBTQIA+ inclusion and cultural safety.

VincentCare’s Quality and Innovation Team provides leadership to facilitate practice that is both innovative and client-focused. We seek to develop a culture of deliberate and continuous quality improvement that promotes the achievement of client-identified outcomes and provides assurance to our stakeholders. We achieve this through a curious and collaborative approach that is data and information based and aligns with our organisational values.

VincentCare:

VincentCare is an award winning organisation established to provide a range of accommodation and support services to people that are facing disadvantage throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria.

Our aspiration is to be the leader in providing care, hope and advocacy for those facing disadvantage. Our purpose is to create opportunities and lasting change for the most marginalised. VincentCare is well equipped to provide a continuum of services that effectively meet the needs of people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

Working with VincentCare:

A key strategic priority is attracting and retaining skilled and committed employees aligned to our values. VincentCare has over three hundred dedicated, talented and enthusiastic staff working across a range of programs and services and offers a number of benefits including:

• Career Development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program
• Salary Packaging
• Choice of Superannuation fund
• Family friendly and flexibility
• Study leave

Diversity and Inclusion

VincentCare is committed to demonstrating the principles of self-determination, reconciliation, intersectional inclusion, equity, and social justice. This means that we will resolutely:

• Seek to understand that what people think as a society about all the parts of a person’s identity can negatively impact their life and ability to access appropriate services.
• Take specific steps to ensure that all staff, volunteers and clients feel valued and are treated with dignity and respect.
• Celebrate people’s diverse physical and cognitive abilities, mental or cognitive health status, cultural background and ethnicity, gender identity, sex characteristic, sexual orientation, age, faith or non-faith.
• Critically review our work to identify disadvantages and we actively seek to place the voices and expertise of marginalised people at the centre of our actions when improving our inclusion strategies.
• Lead by example in how we challenge disadvantage and contribute to a more equitable world which is free from discrimination and marginalisation.

Selection Criteria:

• Qualifications

  • Tertiary Qualification in relevant field (eg. Community Services, Social Work, Quality Management Systems, Sociology etc)

• Knowledge & Experience

  • Lived experience within LGBTQIA+ communities.
  • Knowledge and understanding of the health and wellbeing outcome disparities for LGBTQIA+ people
  • Awareness of the lived experience of LGBTQIA+ communities generally and the impact of broader social and political issues
  • Demonstrated experience or understanding of accreditation standards and assessments (Rainbow Tick Standards is preferred).
  • Awareness of factors that affect and underpin the health, safety and wellbeing disparities of LGBTQIA+ peoples, especially those experiencing homelessness, family violence or substance abuse.

• Skills and Personal Attributes

  • Highly developed communication skills across a range of mediums including written communication and facilitation of meetings and workshops.
  • Strong organisational and planning skills with the capacity to prioritise and deliver on multiple and competing tasks.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify, develop and maintain strategic relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.

If making a difference is important to you and you meet our essential requirements we can’t wait to hear from you. Please submit your CV together with a detailed and separate response to each of the key selection criteria which can be found in the position description.

Applications close: Please don’t delay in submitting your application as applications will be reviewed upon submission.

If you would like to have a confidential discussion regarding the role please contact Chloe Persing, Senior Manager - Quality and Innovation on 0418720096.

A position description is attached.

VincentCare welcomes applications from people from diverse cultural & linguistic backgrounds including people who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Aboriginal and/ or Torres Strait Islander.

All appointments within VincentCare Victoria are subject to satisfactory completion of a police check and character/performance reference checks. Police checks will be undertaken for the selected candidate prior to any job offer being confirmed. Police checks are also undertaken on a periodic basis during the period of employment.

All appointments are subject to disclosure of any relevant employment history of formal disciplinary action for improper or unprofessional conduct taken by current or previous employers or any other integrity body within or outside Australia.

The incumbent for this position must have and maintain a current Victorian Working with Children Check or equivalent.