Service-wide Principal Practitioner
1 week ago
**Full-time position | Max term to 31/12/25**:
- **Increase fortnight take-home pay with access to $15,900 salary packaging benefits**:
- **CBD location / Hybrid role**
**About the opportunity**:
The Service-Wide Principal Practitioner leads and supports key priorities and reform in the development of practice, with a dedicated focus on implementing _Uniting’s Therapeutic Model of Care for Working with Children, Young People, and Families_.
The position plays a key leadership role in driving organisational wide child safeguarding activities related to practice, working with Operations, Quality, and area based Principal Practitioners to implement and deliver practice protocols and training related to risk and child safeguarding.
The position is based within the Practice Leadership Unit, providing opportunities for peer support, development, and reflection.
**What’s on offer**:
A true **hybrid** **work environment** that will see you work both from the office and from home. Some face-to-face interaction is important, particularly in our line of business.
Join an organisation where we don’t just provide a service. We use our connections, our size, our scale, and our knowledge to push into places where we feel like we should be doing more.
In addition to receiving a salary of approx. **$140K** and **superannuation**, you’ll also receive **17.5% leave loading** and an ability to** increase your take-home pay** by accessing up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits.
Receive **10% discount** on the childcare subsidy gap fee when using a Uniting Early Learning service or centre.
**About you**:
You ideally possess post graduate qualifications in psychology or social work with significant experience working with either children, young people, or families who have histories of complex trauma and social disadvantage, often across generations.
- You have held senior leadership roles and have a history of driving practice excellence in complex operational settings.
- You are passionate about collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to drive reform and improve outcomes for consumers.
- You have an exceptional understanding of trauma-informed practice and therapeutic care, and an ability to explain that understanding to others.
- You understand relationships are central to the work we do and you are not afraid to be imaginative and bold.
Click here to view the full position description.
**How to apply**:
If you have any questions about the opportunity, please contact **Tymur Hussein, Practice Leadership & Development Manager** on **0422 006 931** (during business hours).
**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**:unitingvictas.org.au**
- Uniting is also committed to equal opportunity and ensuring the workplace is reflective of the community. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability._
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