Aboriginal Therapeutic Worker

1 week ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (Vacca) Full time

**Part Time, Ongoing Position**:

- **Salary from $67,000 to $72,000, plus super and salary packaging - based on qualifications and **experience**:

- **Supportive and collaborative team environment, with a positive workplace culture and highly capable team**

**About the role**

The role will work in collaboration with speech pathologists to identify the communication needs of children and young people and provide culturally safe and evidence-based communication interventions. Areas of speech pathology practice within the ACHT include: speech, language, pragmatics (social skills), Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), literacy and emotional regulation supports.

**About Us**

The Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) is an Aboriginal Community-Controlled organisation that supports and advocates for the Aboriginal Community and is the largest organisation of it's kind in Australia. The VACCA team is committed to the organisation's visions and values, passionately providing support, service and advocacy for our children and other vulnerable members of the community.

Our strength lies with our people.

**What you bring**
- Demonstrated understanding of, and commitment to, the values that underpin VACCA's vision and purpose and the capacity to take a leadership role in championing these internally and externally
- Demonstrated experience in working and engaging with Aboriginal families and children
- Lived experience of Aboriginal culture, protocols and ways of being.
- Capacity to advocate for, guide and support culturally safe approaches to working with Aboriginal children, carers and family

**What we can offer** **you**

We provide you with clinical supervision, mentoring, cultural guidance and opportunities for professional growth in a challenging and dynamic working environment.
- Professional support and training via in-house learning and development training modules;
- Attractive salary packaging to increase your take home pay;
- Great career development opportunities;
- Access to Employee support and wellbeing program(s) and
- Opportunity to work and build connection with the Aboriginal Community and culture

**This is an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander designated position, classified under Section 12 Special Measures of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010. This employment opportunity is only available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people**

Applications should include a response to the key selection criteria, resume and cover letter.

We encourage applicants to view the Position Description prior to applying. **Please click here to view the position description.**

We are committed to Aboriginal self-determination and supporting strong, safe, thriving Aboriginal communities and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity, honouring all cultural backgrounds, abilities, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities and spiritual beliefs.

VACCA is a child-safe organisation and is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children and young people with zero tolerance for child abuse. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a National Police Record Check and Working with Children Check prior to commencement of employment and periodically following commencement.

VACCA is an equal opportunity employer and has a smoke-free workplace policy

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