• Full time (12 Months Parental Leave Coverage)
• Based in Dandenong with requirements to work from Cranbourne and Pakenham at times
• Professional development and career advancement opportunities
• Inclusive and diverse team environment
• wayss encourages creativity and innovating thinking
• Opportunity to work from home one day per week unless otherwise rostered
• Salary range $124,843 to $129,763 (SCHADS Level 8)
• Generous Salary Packaging benefit up to $15,900 per annum
• Five weeks annual leave

Working for wayss

Our people matter. Without them, we would be unable to make a meaningful impact in the lives of people facing homelessness and family violence. This is our motivation in creating wayss as a great place to work.
Testimonials from our team members

Nicole – Advanced Practice Leader, The Orange Door.

Working at wayss has been one of the best decisions in my career so far. wayss has nurtured, encouraged, given me every possible advantage with training and support to progress within my career. wayss has shown continuously, a response to our clients in line with our purpose and vision. To be valued and supported to the level that wayss does, shows how well management work to ensure a positive workplace and culture that is entrusting and supportive.

wayss is the largest provider of homelessness, housing and family violence services in the South East Melbourne area. We exist so people can live a life free from family violence and have access to safe, sustainable and affordable housing. Our vision is to be the major provider of social housing services and leading edge client support programs in the Southern Melbourne Metropolitan region.

We deliver funded services and programs across the South East of Melbourne including the local government areas of Greater Dandenong, Frankston, Casey and Cardinia.

About 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 brings together different workforces and specialist practices from a range of community organisations to provide an integrated response to families experiencing family violence; perpetrators of family violence and families in need of support with the care, development and well-being of infants, children and young people.

About the role

The Advanced Family Violence Practice Leader is a leadership role within The Orange Door. The position works collaboratively with the Hub Manager, Practice Leaders and Team Leaders to ensure that high quality and client focused practice is delivered in The Orange Door.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Leading and supporting specialist family violence practice through:
  • facilitating decision making;
  • providing specialist secondary case consultation and advice for complex cases;
  • leading, mentoring and developing family violence case practice and decision making within the integrated teams;
  • modelling and supporting culturally safe, inclusive and responsive family violence practice

About you

You will have:

• Appropriate tertiary qualifications in Social Work or a related discipline.
• Expert knowledge and experience working in specialist family violence services in a leadership capacity.
• The ability to apply systems thinking to drive cultural change that supports effective and collaborative working relationships in an integrated practice model.
• The ability to lead, advocate for and promote family violence best practice.
• A thorough understanding of the gendered nature of family violence, the drivers and causes of family violence.
• The ability to build and maintain positive relationships with people at all levels, promoting consensus and building trust through consistent actions, values and communication.
• Ability to self-reflect, take on board feedback and use opportunities of supervision to improve one’s own practice and leadership.
• Demonstrated experience in developing interventions to reduce risk and vulnerabilities for families and their children.
• Drive, commitment and resilience. A motivated and positive approach to new challenges and implementation of service improvements. The ability to maintain best practice while working under challenging circumstances such as working with those exposed to significant trauma.

This role requires a current Driver’s License and valid ‘Employment’ category - Working with Children Check clearance. The candidate will need to have successfully completed wayss pre-employment screening, including a police and identity check.

Applications

Applications may close sooner if a successful candidate is selected.

Please ensure you include a covering letter, outlining your experience in relation to the "About You" section in the advertisement. Enquiries about the position and to request a copy of the PD please contact Giselle Bailey, Senior Manager, Partnerships, Practice and The Orange Door at [email protected] using the subject line: Advanced Family Violence Practice Leader - The Orange Door enquiry via EthicalJobs or 0413 870 796.

wayss is proud to be an inclusive and child safe organisation.

wayss is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to being an organisation that embraces a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion within our workforce and approach to service delivery. We encourage people with lived experience to apply for roles at wayss. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic communities, people of all ages and LGBTIQ people. wayss is a proud Rainbow Tick accredited organisation that welcomes everyone across the LGBTIQ community.