Team Leader - Family Violence
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Wellsprings for Women Inc
- Career category: Advocacy/ Policy, Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Not Specified
- Right to work requirements: Not specified
- Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Permanent
- Deadline: 30/10/2026
- Location: Australia
Wellsprings for Women established in 1994 in Dandenong, Victoria, is a community- based organisation dedicated to supporting women to gain control over their lives, recognise the root causes to the barriers they face and gain skills they need to achieve their goals. Wellsprings provides a range of services and programs that are designed in consultation with women especially women of migrant, refugee and asylum seeker background and women impacted by mental health, trauma, poverty and family violence.
Position purpose
We are looking for someone who brings strong practice expertise together with confident, and compassionate leadership, with the aim of demonstrating:
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary team by providing reflective supervision, coaching, performance support, and workload management, while promoting professional growth, accountability and a positive, collaborative workplace culture.
- Proven ability to coordinate day to day service delivery, manage competing priorities and operational risks, make sound decisions in complex or high risk situations and provide clear direction to staff.
- Strong knowledge and demonstrated expertise in family violence risk assessment and safety planning, incorporating MARAM principles, trauma informed and strengths-based practice, client led recovery approaches, professional boundaries and duty of care.
- A demonstrated commitment to culturally safe, accessible and inclusive services and an understanding of systemic barriers experienced by adult and children victim survivors of family violence from migrant, refugee, asylum seeker and culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
- Strong ability to monitor and evaluate client and program outcomes, maintain accurate, timely and high-quality documentation, ensuring regulatory and legislative compliance, managing risk, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives informed by evidence and feedback.
- Keeping up to date with the changes and reforms at policy and service levels through networking attending key strategic meetings and reading government and research reports relevant to the role and sector.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Qualifications
Social Work qualifications or equivalent as required for working within the Family Violence sector.
Experience
- Experience in family violence case management
- Experience in supervising and coaching specialist family violence practitioners from diverse backgrounds.
- Significant cultural knowledge, experience working with women and children from migrant, refugee and asylum seeker communities with barriers to safety and recovery pathways were experienced.
- Experience in working in community-based organisations and within a small team.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of the Family Violence Federal and State policies
- Full understanding of the MARAM Framework
- Knowledge of the Victorian Family Violence services sector
- Deep understanding of particular issues that affect migrant and refugee women impacted by family violence
- Full understanding of intersectionality and trauma informed practice
- Awareness of office, health and safety procedures
Skills & competencies
- Strong organisation skills with a problem-solving attitude
- Excellent written and verbal/oral communication skills
- Excellent knowledge and application of case work
- Ability to multitask in a busy work environment
- Ability to apply team leadership skills
- Demonstrated track record of reliability and dependability
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