The Family Violence Manager will work as part of the Queerspace and Family Violence Response Team supporting the development of practice across DS.
- First
Nations People and people from public housing estates, Culturally Diverse
Communities, LGBTIQA+ people and people with disability are encouraged to
apply
- Applicants
who have a lived experience are encouraged to apply
- Drummond
Street Services (DS) is committed to prioritising child safety and adhere
to the Reportable Conduct Scheme for organisations.
- DURATION:
Full time or part time position available until June 30th 2025, with option of extension dependent on
funding
About the role
Drummond Street
Services (DS) delivers responsive, intentional and evidence-based prevention,
early intervention and treatment programs, within a public health framework for
a range of communities, including LGBTIQA+ people and their families. We strive
to build and enhance the innate resilience of children, young people, adults,
their families and communities and to increase protective factors.
The Family
Violence Manager will work as part of the Queerspace and Family Violence
Response Team supporting the development of practice across DS and Queerspace,
with individuals and families experiencing family violence and complex issues.
The team provides a range of family violence, mental health, AOD, disability,
mentoring, youth, counselling and case management programs for LGBTIQA+
individuals and their families. The team also provide individual and group
support to LGBTIQA+ people, women, trans, gender diverse and young people who
have enacted family violence, both in the community as well as Dame Phyllis
Frost Centre. The Manager, with support from the team, will also provide
secondary consultation, reflective practice, training and co-work to other
staff and programs across DS and the sector.
Your
Responsibilities
- Provide operational
leadership, including active and positive contributions to DS’s mission,
objectives, values and culture, and strategic objectives.
- Assist with the
implementation and management of a range of evidence-informed services by
leading and supporting practice in a transdisciplinary team environment to
achieve positive outcomes for families in the regions we serve.
- Provision of inspired,
supportive supervision through coaching and mentoring with a focus on the
development of service outcomes for clients and the quality practice and
performance management of staff individually and in teams.
- Using a therapeutic trauma
informed model shaped by a queer feminist gendered approach to family
violence, manage Senior Practitioners and Practitioners to deliver an
Integrated Service Response (ISR) for LGBTIQA+ people with multiple and
complex issues as well as women, trans, gender diverse and young people
who have enacted family violence and victims of family and intimate
partner violence.
- Oversee initial risk and
safety screening, ISR engagement with practitioners, ensuring case
coordination planning, linkage to and the provision of intensive case
management support for higher risk cases.
- Undertake review of cases and
case management meetings with in-scope service sectors.
- Provide observation, feedback
and debrief sessions for group facilitators.
- Provide supervision to staff
to ensure an ISR and monitor protective, risk and safety factors.
- Liaise with internal and
external services to maintain relevant links and networks to strengthen
the services delivered by the Team.
About
you
- Use
collaborative leadership and management techniques to support and empower
team members
- Bring
experience and confidence to your leadership, ensuring our staff group
reflects the communities we service by upholding cultural safety for staff
and in our service practices
- Demonstrate knowledge and
application of LGBTIQA+ specialist and mainstream therapeutic &
supportive approaches for families experiencing family violence and other
complex issues
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of child and adolescent
development, whole of family practice, recovery-oriented trauma informed
practice and the impact of structural disadvantage on individuals,
families and communities, such as racism, sexism, Islamophobia,
homophobia or transphobia
Selection
Criteria
All
of the following must be addressed in your application to be considered.
Essential
- Minimum Degree level
qualification in Social Work or the equivalent
- A minimum of three years
Management experience in the sector and transdisciplinary teams
- Strong leadership and
alibility to support and develop practice staff, including peer workers
- Highly skilled and
experienced family violence practitioner and practice lead across work
with people experiencing multiple and complex needs, including those who
enact harm and victims-survivors of family violence
- Demonstrated understanding of
a gendered analysis of family and intimate partner violence and the
limitations and challenges it offers when working with LGBTIQA+
communities and women, transgender, gender diverse people and young people
who are enacting harm
- Demonstrated experience of
working with families with complex needs such as family violence, drug and
alcohol and mental health issues
- Demonstrated capacity to work
within integrated, collaborative and systemic approaches
- Demonstrated understanding of
the needs, issues and sensitivities of people from diverse backgrounds
including Aboriginal, LGBTIQA+ and culturally and linguistically diverse
people and communities.
- Ability to supervise staff
within an integrated service approach that centres the individual and
their affected others
- Ability to handle pressured
situations with resourcefulness, adaptability, and creative thinking
- Capacity to work creatively,
demonstrate initiative, contribute ideas and be active in a supportive
team environment
- You identify as
belonging to LGBTIQA+ communities, as well as other communities with whom
ds assertively engages
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Application
process
- All applications will be directed to our
careers portal – Family Violence
Manager Queerspace and Family Violence Response
- All applicants must include a resume and with a
cover letter addressing all the key selection criteria for the position.
- Applications close on Sunday 7th July 2024 at midnight.
Interviews will be arranged when suitable applications are received so we
encourage early submission.
To
discuss your application contact Paula Fernandez Arias on 03
9663 6733 or paula.fernandez@ds.org.au
First Nations People and
people from public housing estates, Culturally Diverse Communities, LGBTIQA+
people and people with disability are encouraged to apply
Applicants who have a
lived experience are encouraged to apply
Drummond Street Services (DS) is
committed to prioritising child safety and adhere to the Reportable Conduct
Scheme for organisations.
DURATION: Full time or part time
position available until June 30th 2025, with option of extension dependent on
funding
Requirements