Senior Practice Lead- Journey to Social Inclusion
Senior Practice Lead- Journey to Social Inclusion
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Senior Practice Lead Journey to Social Inclusion
- Location: Glenroy Victoria
- Parttime Maximum Term 8 days fortnight (0.8 FTE)
- Level 6 SCHADS Award $53.84 to $58.23 per hour Superannuation NFP Salary Packaging
Make a Real Impact in the Community Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of people experiencing chronic homelessness
VincentCare is a leading communityfocused organisation dedicated to supporting people experiencing homelessness and disadvantage. We are committed to providing clientcentred services that foster inclusion dignity and positive outcomes.
Our aspiration is to be the leader in providing care hope and advocacy for those facing disadvantage. Our purpose is to create opportunities and lasting change for the most marginalised. VincentCare is well equipped to provide a continuum of services that effectively meet the needs of people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Our valuesCourage Leadership Accountability Compassion Excellence and Dignitydrive everything we do.
VincentCare Victoria is looking for a Senior Practice Lead to join our Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI) program. J2SI is an innovative program focused on breaking the cycle of homelessness through intensive personcentered support. This role offers the opportunity to provide longterm traumainformed case management and service coordination supporting individuals to achieve stable housing independence and social inclusion.
What Youll Be Doing:
VincentCare is committed to improving outcomes for people experiencing homelessness and disadvantage as a primary service offering as an effective engagement mechanism for longer term support and to complement and reinforce sustainable housing outcomes.
As part of VincentCares J2SI Leadership Team the role will provide practice development and reflection through the provision of trauma informed support. This includes; clinical supervision group reflective practice secondary consultation and training. The role entails delivering these activities to support strategic priorities and activities will be prioritised accordingly.
The objectives of this position are:
- Provide support to direct service staff in integrating theory and practice.
- Provision of Traumainformed support including clinical supervision group reflective practice secondary consultation and training.
- Provides a leading role in the development of practice development resources.
- Contribute to practice development in partnership with Program Managers Quality Learning and Development and Leadership.
What Were Looking For:
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of development attachment and trauma theories as they relate to homelessness.
- Knowledge of at least two evidencebased therapeutic approaches to supporting recovery from trauma as relates to longterm homelessness.
- Demonstrated experience in providing traumainformed support interventions such as practicebased supervision group reflective practice secondary consultation training and other professional development activities.
- Demonstrated ability to engage with motivate train and mentor teams to ensure delivery of interventions.
- Experience in leading critical reflection applying theoretical frameworks and referring to research and literature to inform case practice and decisionmaking at an advanced level.
- Managing Oneself: Manages and cares for self to maintain resilience and support when working within a challenging operating environment.
Why Join VincentCare
- Salary packaging sometimes called salary sacrificing is a huge attraction here! It is a popular way of providing employees in the community sector with tax benefits over and above their salary. It means the real value of a salary package can be significantly higher than the nominal value.
- We are committed to professional development to make sure that your career keeps growing while youre working with us.
- We offer a place where you know you are contributing to an organisation committed to helping others. We are passionate about #Social Justice.
- Purposedriven work that directly supports vulnerable individuals.
- Collaborative team culture that values diversity and inclusion.
- Career development opportunities with ongoing training.
- Innovative service models driving positive change in family violence response.
Ready to Make an Impact
If making a difference is important to you and you meet our essential requirements we cant wait to hear from you. Please submit your CV and Cover Letter detailing a response to each of the key selection criteria which can be found in the position description available below.
Please clickhereto view a detailed Position Description.
If you have any questions regarding the role please contact Emily Page Manager of Support Services on
Please note: VCV reserves the right to close the advertisement at any time.
Candidates may be reviewed and progressed as applications are received rather than after the advertised closing date.
We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to ensure due consideration is given to your suitability.
Please dont delay in submitting your application as applications will be reviewed upon submission.
VincentCare welcomes applications from people from diverse cultural & linguistic backgrounds including people who identify as Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans Intersex Aboriginal and/ or Torres Strait Islander.
All appointments within VincentCare Victoria are subject to satisfactory completion of a police check and character/performance reference checks. Police checks will be undertaken for the selected candidate prior to any job offer being confirmed. Police checks are also undertaken on a periodic basis during the period of employment.
All appointments are subject to disclosure of any relevant employment history of formal disciplinary action for improper or unprofessional conduct taken by current or previous employers or any other integrity body within or outside Australia.
The incumbent for this position must have and maintain a current Victorian Working with Children Check or equivalent.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Hourly
