Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 20th Dec 2021
The Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) is an Aboriginal Community-Controlled organisation that supports and advocates for the Aboriginal Community and is the largest organisation of it’s kind in Australia. The VACCA team is committed to the organisation’s visions and values, passionately providing support, service and advocacy for our children and other vulnerable members of the community.
Our Aboriginality is what distinguishes us from other community organisations and our culture of teamwork and inclusivity is why we are able to deliver positive outcomes that lead to ongoing change.
Our strength lies with our people and all people are welcome.
Take the next step in your career as a therapeutic practitioner with VACCA’s Aboriginal Children’s Healing Team. We are a dedicated, enthusiastic and professional multidisciplinary team who are motivated to improve long term cultural and clinical outcomes for Aboriginal children.
Our Therapeutic Practitioners work directly with families, carers and children, providing therapeutic assessments and opportunities for healing. As well as secondary consultation and case based Group Reflective Practice to our other VACCA programs.
You are an experienced child and family therapist, psychotherapist or clinician with strong trauma integrated clinical assessment and healing skills, you value self-determination, culture, connectedness and belonging as central to healing and your practice.
What we can offer you!!
We provide you with clinical supervision, mentoring, cultural guidance and opportunities for professional growth in a challenging and dynamic working environment.
We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people to apply.
If what is listed above seems like the role for you, the team for you and an opportunity that you can't wait to get your hands on, then all thats left to do is to click APPLY NOW and start your professional journey with VACCA. Applications should include a cover letter addressing the key selection criteria and current resume.
Please click here to view the position description. This will give you complete information about the role and a view of the selection criteria to guide you in writing your application. A position description is also attached.
For a confidential discussion about this role please contact our Clinical Team Leader Riwai Wilson 0439 527 037 or Manager Abigail Dent 0407 675 232
We are committed to Aboriginal self-determination and supporting strong, safe, thriving Aboriginal communities and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity, honouring all cultural backgrounds, abilities, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities and spiritual beliefs.
VACCA is a child-safe organisation and is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children and young people with zero tolerance for child abuse. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a National Police Record Check and Working with Children Check prior to commencement of employment and periodically following commencement.
VACCA is an equal opportunity employer and has a smoke-free workplace policy.