Integrated Practice Leader @ The Orange Door

Join the eastern Orange Door network and make your mark
- Lead, train, educate and consult across multiple agencies
- Permanent|part time|4 days|make a move in to a senior leadership role

**Location and travel requirements**:
This position will be based in the Eastern Orange Door network and will be required to work primarily from Croydon but with travel to Belgrave and Yarra Junction from time to time.

**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.

**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)
- Primarily based in Croydon, with days spent in Belgrave and Yarra Junction.
- 0.8 EFT part time role, 4 days per week, 30.4 hours, permanent.
- 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