Team Leader

**Position title**Team Leader

**Program**Changing Ways

**Employment status** Full Time, 38 hours
9:00 - 5:00pm; Monday - Friday

**Unit Location** Preston, VIC
Also to support staff and work with clients at various locations

**Position contact**Andrew Rush, Phone: 03- 8456-3044

**About Dardi Munwurro**

**OUR VISION**

Dardi Munwurro (Strong Spirit) is a specialist Aboriginal family violence service. Our vision is to build stronger families and safer communities.

We aim to empower and inspire individuals to heal the past, acknowledge the present and create a positive vision for the future.

We do this by delivering a range of family violence programs to break the cycle of inter-generational trauma in Aboriginal families and communities.

**OUR WORK**
Dardi Munwurro was established in 2000 to provide group leadership training programs tailored to Aboriginal men and youth.

Our programs are designed to assist First Peoples to identify their emotions and personal strengths, and in doing so, discover their own responsibility.

We support First Peoples to express purpose and develop a vision for their future.

**OUR STATEMENT**
Building Stronger Families and Safer Communities

**Our Values**

Diversity | Accountability | Respect | Determination | Integrity

**DETAILS ABOUT THE ROLE & PROGRAM**

**Key Responsibilities**

The Team Leader (Changing Ways program) will lead a team that provides intensive casework intervention for adults who are assessed as being at ‘serious risk’ of using violence (under the MARAM framework) and to support the safety and well-being of their partners, children and other family members impacted by their violence. The Team Leader will provide leadership support for a team of three staff and also provide case management support for clients. The Team Leader is responsible for:

- Supervising, supporting and mentoring a team of three case managers to deliver high quality and culturally appropriate case management support for Serious Risk program clients
- Managing stakeholder relationships, information exchange and collaboration with Family Safety Victoria, MARAM accredited partner agencies, other service providers and other Dardi teams and managers
- Facilitate and support serious-risk offenders and partners, children and other family members impacted by violence attending other services according to assessed needs and requirements of case plans
- Leading and/or participating in multi-agency risk assessment and monitoring (utilising thefamily violence Central Information Point) for victims/survivors impacted by violence andadults who use violence who are referred to the program
- Monitoring to ensure all case plans, client records, exit plans and other documents arecompleted and uploaded on the client management system
- Coordination of data and information for program reporting and evaluation purposes
- Engagement of serious-risk offenders in intensive case work to address identified riskfactors as well as individual goals
- Engagement of partners, children and other family members impacted by violence in casework to address risk factors, needs and goals
- Collaboration with internal Dardi programs to facilitate pathways to ongoing healing andbehaviour change support for men who use violence and partners, children and other familymembers impacted by violence, where appropriate
- Working with clients to develop Exit Plans (addressing housing, education/employment, health and wellbeing) and step-down support
- Development and monitoring of case plans, capture of program data and preparation of information for program reporting as required

**Key Organisational Accountabilities**
- Participation in the MARAM Perpetrator training program (after commencement) and the Serious Risk Program Practice Guidance training
- Support and participate in Dardi Munwurro’s strategic planning
- Ensure appropriate use of resources
- Participate in debriefing and supervision support as required
- Demonstrated commitment to community participation and ongoing engagement with clients
- Carry out duties in a manner that does not negatively affect yours and the individual’s own safety or others by following the agreed procedures, reporting all incidents, injuries, near misses, as well as cooperating with any measures introduced in the workplace to improve Work Health & Safety
- Participate in the revision and development of corporate policies and procedures
- Participate in Dardi Munwurro meetings and training, as required
- While at work, comply with requirements as noted in the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004
- Participate in the revision and development of corporate policies and procedures
- Participate in Dardi Munwurro meetings and training, as required
- While at work, comply with requirements as noted in the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004
- Meet all the legislative requirements related to the position

**Key Selection Criteria - Qualifications, skills and essential competencies**
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