Senior Practice Leader

About the Opportunity

The Senior Practice Leader is accountable for supporting full implementation of the MCM Healing Oriented Framework (HOF), the MCM Case Management Framework, and Integrated Frontyard One Practice Model into Frontyard as a pilot site, documenting and sharing learnings with the HOF Working Group.
The MCM HOF has been developed to promote the physical, emotional, and cultural safety of people in contact with MCM and well as staff. The HOF advances a trauma informed approach by ensuring we maintain a holistic view of the people we work with during their engagement and connection with our services.
The Senior Practice Leader role collaborates with others to embed the frameworks with leaders, team members, deliver group reflective practice, provide enhanced supervision, and secondary consultation. The Senior Practice Development Lead will support the development of training and capacity building activities to build team members practice capability and share learnings more broadly across the HOF Working Group

About you

We are looking for someone who is:

• Interested in a Senior Practice Leader role in the youth homelessness space to fully implement the MCM Healing Orientated Framework (HOF) 
• Committed to coaching, training, and supporting the Frontyard team to ensure the model of care and practice is embedded.
• Use a project management approach to share learnings from Frontyard with the HOF Working Group, including training design and delivery.
• Energised by the idea of contributing to the vision for an Integrated Frontyard One Practice Method.

Benefits of working with MCM include:

• Diverse and inclusive organisation
• Attractive Salary Packaging benefits
• Supportive learning and development environment
• Culture of continuous improvement

Essential:

• Qualified: You’ll hold a relevant qualification in social work, youth work, psychology, occupational therapy or similar and are a member of your professional body. Master’s qualification and/or mental health endorsements highly valued.
• Practitioner Experience: You bring extensive clinical practice experience in a complex trauma informed environment, with experience managing complex cases, specifically with young people and families in crisis. You understand through practice, the impact trauma has on individuals and on systems, as well as demonstrating knowledge and understanding of development, attachment, and trauma theories as they relate to homelessness.
• Group supervision and reflective practice facilitation: You bring experience enabling practitioners, particularly front-line staff, to process and reflect on their work, leveraging evidence-based methods and frameworks to guide your practice.
• Strong communication and presentation skills: You can express yourself written and verbally, synthesising complex information, flexing to your audience. You’re comfortable facilitating sessions, conducting meetings, workshops, and hosting Q&A’s and webinars.
• Training design and delivery: You have a demonstrated ability to develop tailored training modules and engage with, motivate, train and mentor teams to ensure delivery of interventions.
• Learning agility: you’re always expanding knowledge and practice in your discipline and can provide examples of how you’ve driven your development in this area. Specifically in the area of trauma informed practice, vicarious trauma.
• Project Management: you are familiar and have experience in adopting a project management approach to deliver new initiatives on time and in partnership with others.

Screening Criteria:

• National Police check
• Working with Children check
• Valid Victorian Drivers license
• Right to Work in Australia

Applications for this role will close on 21st April 2025 or Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early.  Please include your current resume and cover letter.
Please review the position description to understand more about the role and responsibilities.  If you have any needs throughout the recruitment process that have not already been catered for, we encourage you to contact recruitment@mcm.org.au to let us know how we can better support you to apply.

About MCM

MCM is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to safety. MCM embraces differences because we know that diversity and inclusion help us to attract, recruit, engage and retain talented people. 
We are a leading not-for profit-for-purpose organisation that offer a broad range of services in Disability, Homelessness, Palliative Care and Education.

Our commitment to Safety

MCM is committed to the safety of its clients and employees, taking a zero-tolerance approach to violence within the workplace and abuse, including child abuse and abuse of people with disability. All employees are required to comply with the Child Safe Standards.

Our commitment to Diversity, Inclusion & Equity of Access

At MCM we embrace our differences because we know that diversity helps us to innovate and make the biggest impact possible. Our DEI Strategy supports and drives an inclusive workplace culture. We embrace the learning opportunities that come with authentic commitment to equity of access for all. We particularly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates to apply.