Join our Family Services Team.

• Full Time Ongoing positions based at Dandenong
• Multidisciplinary team providing an intake function to vulnerable families
• Increase take-home pay with access to $15,900 salary packing benefits

Your new role

As an Orange Door Team Leader you will be responsible for the management and coordination of an integrated team as well as the support, mentoring, development of Uniting Practitioners and Senior Practitioners, in a matrix supervision model. 

You will provide practice guidance and leadership to practitioners across the Orange Door in the delivery of program requirements, to maintain a high quality of service to people accessing the Orange Door for support. This will involve ensuring there is close collaboration with the Orange Door Leadership team to provide an integrated and client focused service for women, children, young people and families experiencing family violence and families in need of support with the care, development and well-being of children.

You will also work collaboratively, with an integrated approach across the service system, maintaining positive relationships with partnering organisations and developing new relationships with key agencies.

About the program

The Orange Door Program brings together workforces from Community Service organisations, Aboriginal Services, Family Safety Victoria and DFFH, to deliver an integrated practice model and a consolidated intake point for: 

• Adults, children, young people, and families who are experiencing or have experienced family violence
• People who use violence
• Families requiring support with the care, development and wellbeing of unborn babies, infants, children, and young people

Uniting focuses on providing services to vulnerable families who require extra support with the care, development and wellbeing of unborn babies, infants, children and young people.

Benefits of working at Uniting

Our work isn’t easy, but it matters. Work with people who care as much as you.

In addition to your salary (SCHADS Level 7) + super, you can access the following.

• Access salary packaging to increase take-home pay.
• Need extra time off? Buy additional leave to increase annual leave!
• Enjoy a 10% discount at Uniting Early Learning, or 60% for centre staff!
• Up to 10 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers (4 for secondary).
• Free counselling with our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Enjoy 25% off at Uniting Op Shops.

Your skills and experience

You thrive in a dynamic environment, assessing and responding to children and families presenting with a range of issues at a time when they need support most. You love that no day is ever the same and feel energized when you find referral pathways and empower individuals to be involved in developing their own support arrangement.

You will bring:

• Must be assessed to meet the mandatory minimum qualification requirement for specialist family violence roles in Victoria Mandatory minimum qualifications for specialist family violence response roles | vic.gov.au  
  • Degree in Social Work or other qualification in family violence or related discipline that meets Australian Qualification Framework [AQF] Level 7 [bachelor, graduate certificate or masters degree];
  • or hold a diploma in a discipline related to family violence and be in the process of working towards a qualification that meets the MMQ;
  • or have at least 2 years relevant professional experience and be in the process working towards a qualification that meets the MMQ;
  • or have been working in a specialist family violence role prior to July 2021.
• Current Victorian Driver’s Licence
• Significant management experience within child, youth and family welfare sector.
• A sound understanding of family and parenting issues, especially in the context of protective concerns
• Commitment to, and understanding of working with marginalised groups including Indigenous and CALD clients
• Sound understanding of the “Best Interests” framework and the Child, Youth and Family Act (2005)

View the position description here.

How to apply

Click APPLY to submit your interest.

If this role sounds like a good fit for you, please apply soon. We'll review applications as they come in and may close the ad early.

For any questions, reach out to Robyn Barton on 0403 448 583 for a chat.

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse range of services across Victoria and Tasmania.

Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and relevant Working with Children Check in your State prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

Through the recruitment process, we will ask you for personal information. Disclosure is optional, however, it can help us support you better. We invite you to tell us if you identify as Aboriginal, a person with disability, from a diverse background or LGBT+. You will be given an opportunity in the application form to request additional support. We welcome the opportunity to discuss how we can support you.

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