• Join South's Orange Door network, part time, 15.2 hours per week (2 days)
• Lead, train, educate and consult across multiple agencies
• Fixed term to October 2025|make a move in to a senior leadership role

Location and travel requirements:

This position will be based at the South Metro Orange Door network and will be required to work across Dandenong, Cranbourne and Pakenham sites

About the Orange Door:

A key recommendation of the Royal Commission and the Roadmap for Reform was to establish a network of Support and Safety Hubs (‘Hubs’) across Victoria to provide a new way for women, children and young people experiencing family violence and families who need help with family functioning and the wellbeing and development of their children to access the services they need to be safe and supported. These Hubs are known as The Orange Door.

The Orange Door delivers a fundamental change to the way we work with women, children and families, and men. As an integrated service the Orange Door brings together different workforces and practices to create a whole family integrated approach, and a consolidated intake point in each Orange Door area to create a new way of support for:

• families in need of support with the care, development and well-being of infants, children and young people.
• women, children, young people and families experiencing family violence.
• perpetrators of family violence.

For more specific information about the program, position, key responsibilities and key selection criteria. Please view the positions description available here:  Intergrated Practice Leader PD TOD M AW8 052023 V1.1 (4).pdf

Your role:

The Integrated Practice Leader will be responsible for driving integrated practice across The Orange Door and providing practice leadership and expert advice to The Orange Door workforce.

An integral part of this role is to build capability of practitioners to deliver integrated functions and services responding to child and family development & functioning; family violence and perpetrator interventions; in accordance with relevant frameworks. This may include:

• Providing secondary consultation in shared spaces with our partner agencies
• Leading, mentoring and developing Orange Door practitioners in integrated practice approaches and behaviours.
• Working with partner agencies, leadership and practitioners to identify and resolve clinical and practice issues.
• Modelling of integrated practice approaches through participating in key shared spaces including accountability and responsibility for decision making.
• Modelling and supporting culturally safe, inclusive and responsive practice including effectively self-managing behaviour.
• Working in partnerships with other practice leaders, team leaders and partner agency managers to foster high quality service.
• Engaging in reflective opportunities and contributing to the development of continuous improvement and initiative strategies.
• Ensure brokerage is appropriately managed an administrative function adheres to program requirements.

What are we looking for?

Professional experience and relevant qualification(s) in social work, psychology or a related discipline is essential. You are someone with:

• Significant experience working with vulnerable families, children and young people.
• Extensive experience working with clients with complex needs and risk issues in any of the following services: Family Services, Family Violence, Child protection, Mental Health and/or Alcohol and other drugs
• Strong knowledge and experience working in leadership roles
• Demonstrated experience in risk assessment and risk management.
• Demonstrated cross-sectoral expertise in relevant disciplines, including but not limited to – a strong knowledge of child-development, attachment, trauma-theories and the drivers/causes of family violence.
• Extensive experience in stakeholder partnerships including engaging and identification of stakeholder underlying needs.
• Demonstrated experience in working collaboratively to support and promote a positive team culture of collaboration and respect.
• Strong problem-solving skills, able to size opportunities and upon them to champion continuous improvement and initiative strategies.

What you need to know:

• A salary at SCHCADS level 8 which equates to $129,763 (pro rata this amount)
• Based at multiple Orange Door locations including Dandenong, Pakenham and Cranbourne
• 0.4 EFT part time role, 2 days per week, 15.2 hours, fixed term to October 2025.
• A leadership role, mentoring and supporting an integrated workforce.
• Access to discounted health insurance, free Employee Assistance, Salary Packaging and a range of other employment benefits supporting your physical and mental health.
• Working hours are 9am-5pm Monday to Friday on site with flex to choose your days.
• We have regional access sites of which presence is expected.
• A workplace with Rainbow Tick Accreditation and DCA Inclusive Employer recognition

What our people say- “I feel really supported - probably the most supported I’ve ever felt in a workplace. This job can be really difficult, so if you’re supported, that’s half the battle for me. Knowing it's there means I can go out and do the work.”

Ready to take the next step:

A mandatory minimum qualification policy will apply to specialist family violence practitioners who enter the workforce from 1 July 2021.

All applications are welcome and there are personalised pathways to employment based on whether you:

• hold a Bachelor of Social Work or equivalent qualification, or
• Are working towards or can meet the new mandatory minimum qualification policy requirement via one of the available employment pathways.

For relevant specialist family violence roles, applicants are asked to please complete the Candidate Questionnaire and the Mandatory Minimum Qualifications Equivalency Self-Assessment (you can download both below) and submit with your application. You will submit these documents under key selection criteria and other documents along with you resume.

 Rec 209 - Candidate Questionaire.pdf

 Rec 209 - Qualifications Self-Assessment Form (5).pdf

The closing date for applications is Monday 21st April.

You will also be requested to attach your resume and cover letter that describes your motivation to apply for this role and any skills and experience relevant to the role.

If shortlisted, we will then ask you to address some Key Selection Criteria.

For further enquiries contact our Orange Door Program Manager Dominika Szadura via email at dominika.szadura@anglicarevic.org.au 

Please Note: It is mandatory for the successful applicant to hold a current Working with Children Check and be prepared to undergo a National Criminal History Check prior to commencement.

Anglicare Victoria acknowledges Aboriginal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we operate. We commit to working respectfully to honour their ongoing cultural and spiritual connections to this country.

Diversity and inclusivity are important to Anglicare Victoria and we are committed to ensuring our workplace and services reflect this.  Everyone is welcome at Anglicare Victoria, regardless of age, ethnicity, cultural background, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation and physical ability.