Team Lead - Orange Door (Aboriginal Identified)

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📍 Locations: Chirnside Park & Croydon
🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time, Ongoing
💰 Salary: SCHADS Level 6-7 dependent on experience ($110,000 - $121,000 + super + salary packaging)

An exciting opportunity is available for a passionate and culturally strong leader to join the Outer East Metro Orange Door Hub within the Aboriginal Response Team.

This role is ideal for someone who is committed to walking alongside Aboriginal children, families and communities through culturally safe, trauma-informed and healing-focused practice. You will lead a small team of practitioners, providing supervision, guidance and support while strengthening culturally grounded responses within the family violence service system.

🌿 About the Role

Working across the Croydon and Chirnside Park locations, you will provide:

• Cultural and practice leadership to a small team
• Reflective supervision and mentoring support
• Guidance around complex family violence matters
• Support to ensure services remain culturally safe and community-focused
• Strong collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders

This is a meaningful leadership role where your voice, lived understanding, cultural knowledge and sector experience will help shape positive outcomes for Aboriginal families and communities.

🌺 About You

You will bring:

• Demonstrated leadership or supervisory experience
• Strong family violence sector knowledge and experience
• A deep commitment to culturally safe, trauma-informed practice
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Relevant qualifications and/or extensive community sector experience

🖤 Aboriginal Identified Position

This is an Aboriginal identified role, and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.

✨ What's on Offer

• Full-time ongoing opportunity
• SCHADS Level 6-7 salary based on experience
• Salary packaging benefits
• Supportive and culturally grounded team environment
• Opportunity to create meaningful change for community

If you are a strong and compassionate leader wanting to support the community through culturally informed family violence practice, we would love to hear from you.

About Tradewind Australia

Tradewind Australia is a multi-award-winning recruitment agency recognised for outstanding candidate experience across the Social and Community sectors. We partner with leading organisations across Victoria, providing opportunities that align with your skills, values and career goals.

What sets us apart:

• Dedicated consultants specialising in Family Services

• Access to exclusive locum and permanent opportunities

• Support throughout the entire recruitment and onboarding process

• Transparent communication and ongoing career development support

How to Apply

Click "Apply" to submit your CV.
For more information, please contact our Family Services Team on 03 9081 0562

Commitment to Child Safety, Inclusion and being an equal opportunities employer

Tradewind Australia is committed to the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of all children and vulnerable people. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, and those from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

All successful applicants will undergo reference checks, identity verification and Working with Children Check and further compliance requests pending the organisation's requirements.

*Tradewind considers that being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent is a genuine occupational requirement as outlined in section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act (1991) and permitted as a 'special measure' under section 8 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) and by articles 1(4) and 2(2) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.