Team Leader

Work for a not for profit organisation that celebrates all cultures, diversity and inclusion
- Growth opportunities with regular supervision and support
- Berry Street benefits including 17.5% leave loading

Berry Street is one of the largest independent agencies within Australia, providing diverse programs to over 35,000 young people, children and families across Victoria each year. We pride ourselves on our ingenuity, evidence based and multi-dimensional thinking to provide the best outcomes for our young people.

We believe children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful and strive to make this happen each day
- ** Ballarat location, Wadawurrung Country**:

- ** Full Time, Fixed Term position until January 2027 (parental leave cover)**:

- ** Base salary $119k pa + Super & Salary Packaging**

**The Opportunity**

Berry Street's Western**Family Violence Service provides a Specialist Family Violence team within The Orange Door (Central Highlands**Region) as an initiative resulting per Recommendations 37 and 38 of the Royal Commission into Family Violence.

The fundamental function of The Orange Door (also known as the Support and Safety Hub) is to:

- Be a more visible and accessible contact point for service users requiring specialist support.
- Provide help for people to identify family violence and child wellbeing issues.
- Support to access justice and legal support.
- Offer advice based on contemporary risk assessment tools and guidance.
- Provide specialist support and tailored advice for victims, families and children, and perpetrators.
- Connection and coordination of access to support.
- A system wide view of service capacity, client experience and outcomes.

**Key Responsibilities**

The Hub Team Leader - Specialist Family Violence will provide day-to-day coordination and support a team of highly skilled family violence and child wellbeing workers who collectively will provide screening, assessment, triage and response functions to all incoming referrals for women, and women with children through an Integrated Practice Framework including child wellbeing and working with perpetrators.

The Team Leader will be supervising and supporting a multi-disciplinary team in support of The Orange Door as well as supervising staff from other agencies. This role will give direction as required and support staff to make thorough and in depth risk assessments for women and children.

**About You**

You will have the ability to reflect on and analyse complex situations arising from intake; with a capacity to adapt, support and manage change and a commitment to working collaboratively and holistically internally, with partners and stakeholders, and the community.

You will also have experience in a leadership role including providing supervision to staff.

**The Benefits**
- Regular reflective supervision
- A culture that values and support professional development
- $15,900.00 pa (pro rata) Salary Packaging + Additional Salary Packaging for meals/accommodation
- Access to the Employee Assistance Program, with access for staff's immediate family
- Leave loading 17.5%

**How to Apply**

Queries to **Mandy Gambino - Senior Manager Family Violence (West) on 03 5330 5000**
- Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTQIA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion._
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply._