Integrated Practice Leader The Orange Door
Integrated Practice Leader The Orange Door
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Job Description
- Join Souths Orange Door network part time 15.2 hours per week 2 days)
- Lead train educate and consult across multiple agencies
- Fixed term to October 2025make a move in to a senior leadership role
Location and travel requirements:
This position will be based at the South Metro Orange Door network and will be required to work across Dandenong Cranbourne and Pakenham sites
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 wellbeing of infants children and young people.
- women children young people and families experiencing family violence.
- perpetrators of family violence.
For more specific information about the program position key responsibilities and key selection criteria. Please view the positions description available here:Intergrated Practice Leader PD TOD M AWV1.1 4.pdf
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 selfmanaging 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
- Strong knowledge and experience working in leadership roles
- Demonstrated experience in risk assessment and risk management.
- Demonstrated crosssectoral expertise in relevant disciplines including but not limited to a strong knowledge of childdevelopment attachment traumatheories 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 problemsolving 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 $129763 (pro rata this amount)
- Based at multiple Orange Door locations including Dandenong Pakenham and Cranbourne
- 0.4 EFT part time role 2 days per week 15.2 hours fixed term to October 2025.
- A leadership role mentoring and supporting an integrated workforce.
Ready to take the next step:
A mandatory minimum qualification policy will apply to specialist family violence practitioners who enter the workforce from 1 July 2021.
All applications are welcome and there are personalised pathways to employment based on whether you:
- hold a Bachelor of Social Work or equivalent qualification or
- Are working towards or can meet the new mandatory minimum qualification policy requirement via one of the available employment pathways.
For relevant specialist family violence roles applicants are asked to please complete the Candidate Questionnaire and the Mandatory Minimum Qualifications Equivalency SelfAssessment (you can download both below) and submit with your application. You will submit these documents under key selection criteria and other documents along with you resume.
Rec 209 Candidate Questionaire.pdf
Rec 209 Qualifications SelfAssessment Form 5.pdf
The closing date for applications is Monday 21st April.
You will also be requested to attach your resume and cover letter that describes your motivation to apply for this role and any skills and experience relevant to the role.
If shortlisted we will then ask you to address some Key Selection Criteria.
For further enquiries contact our Orange Door Program Manager Dominika Szadura via email at
Employment Type
Part-Time
