This is more than a leadership role. It's an opportunity to drive meaningful change in the lives of women, children and families experiencing family violence across South West Victoria.
As our Team Leader - Family Violence Women & Children's Programs, you will lead a highly skilled team delivering specialist family violence responses, therapeutic interventions and safety-focused support across a suite of programs including Family Violence Counselling and Support, Family Safety Contact, Mother Contact, ARISE and HEART.
Working at the intersection of leadership, clinical practice and service innovation, you will provide day-to-day operational oversight, practice guidance and supervision while fostering a culture of excellence, reflection and continuous improvement. You will support practitioners navigating complex family violence situations, ensuring responses are trauma-informed, culturally safe, child-centred and grounded in best practice frameworks including MARAM, Safe and Together and Information Sharing legislation.
This role is ideal for an experienced family violence practitioner and people leader who is passionate about strengthening outcomes for women and children, building workforce capability and driving collaborative, integrated responses across the service system. You'll work closely with internal teams, partner agencies and community stakeholders to enhance safety, reduce risk and create pathways to healing and long-term wellbeing. While the primary focus is leading and supporting a multidisciplinary team, the role also maintains a connection to practice through participation in direct client work as required, ensuring leadership decisions remain informed by the lived realities and emerging needs of the women, children and families we support. You'll work closely with internal teams, partner agencies and community stakeholders to enhance safety, reduce risk and create pathways to healing and long-term wellbeing.
At Brophy, we believe strong leaders create strong outcomes. You'll have the opportunity to influence practice, shape service delivery, support staff growth and contribute to our broader vision of safer families, stronger communities and a future free from violence.
If you're a values-driven leader who thrives in complex environments, inspires others through compassionate leadership and is committed to creating lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you.
Brophy Family & Youth Services has supported children, young people, families, and the southwest Victorian community for almost 50 years. We live here; this is our community; we believe in people and in their ability to create the life they want.
At Brophy, you will join a team of just over 160 employees delivering over 40 programs and services across areas including youth engagement, mental health, family violence, foster care, housing support, employment support, and disability services.
At Brophy our Vision is not just focused externally on our community – we feel just as passionate about our employees being meaningfully connected through their roles with us to create the life they want, and that as a workforce we achieve this together through innovation and healthy relationships, and by positively contributing to building an advantaged community.
Brophy is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that ensures safety and a sense of belonging for everyone. We embrace individuals of diverse races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, religions, abilities, and nationalities, recognising the richness that varied experiences bring to our efforts in supporting individuals and building stronger communities. Our commitment extends to actively listening, learning, and evolving to become an accessible, inclusive, and secure organisation for all, encompassing First Nations peoples, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, individuals with disabilities, and those with culturally diverse backgrounds.
Please note that we are only able to consider candidates who have the right to work in Australia, and we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
