Team Leader – Domestic and Family Violence

Location: Alice Springs, NT (with occasional travel across Central Australia)
Salary: $100,070 – $108,081 + Super + Generous Leave + Salary Packaging + Retention Bonus

• Lead a trauma-informed, culturally grounded domestic violence team
• Empower frontline staff and collaborate cross-culturally
• Work with a respected Aboriginal-led organisation in Central Australia

About the Role & Client

Join a well-established, Aboriginal-led not-for-profit that delivers holistic health, social, and cultural services across the Central Desert region. This organisation is guided by the authority of Anangu women and a cross-cultural practice framework, placing cultural safety and trauma-informed approaches at the core of everything they do.

As the Team Leader within the Domestic and Family Violence Service (DFVS), you’ll manage a small team of caseworkers and intake officers servicing communities in SA, NT, and WA. You’ll provide clinical supervision, lead case reviews, coordinate intake responses, and ensure collaborative, effective service delivery across jurisdictions. This role also involves representing the service in multi-agency forums and contributing to strategic development through the DFVS leadership group.

About the Service

The DFVS supports women across the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara, and Yankunytjatjara lands experiencing domestic and family violence. The service provides immediate crisis response, long-term case management, legal advocacy, and community-based healing and prevention programs. Staff work alongside Anangu women with lived experience, ensuring culturally safe, community-led solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Counselling & Case Management

• Supervise DFV caseworkers and Intake & Assessment Officers
• Provide clinical oversight, complex case consultations, and critical reflection sessions
• Support culturally safe and integrated practice across remote communities

Team Leadership & Supervision

• Manage day-to-day operations including rostering and staff meetings
• Model strengths-based, reflective leadership within a trauma-informed framework
• Facilitate cross-cultural team development and effective internal collaboration

Risk & Safety Planning

• Oversee response to urgent risk referrals and community-based casework
• Ensure advocacy and intervention strategies align with best practice and cultural safety

Policy & Practice Development

• Contribute to planning, policy review, and data reporting
• Support service evaluation, funding reports, and operational planning

Community Collaboration

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders in SA and NT
• Represent the organisation at Family Safety Framework and interagency meetings
• Mentor staff in respectful and strategic advocacy

Skills & Requirements

• Tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, Community Development or related
• Experience working cross-culturally with Aboriginal communities
• Demonstrated skills in trauma-informed case management and team supervision
• Excellent communication, leadership, and conflict resolution skills
• Strong understanding of the criminal justice system and DFV legislation
• Desirable: clinical supervision experience, work in Central Australia, or language skills

Benefits:

• Competitive, above award based salaries
• Generous salary packaging (a great way to make your pay go further)
• Five weeks of annual leave (with 17.5% loading)
• Three weeks of personal leave (to care for you and your family)
• Relocation assistance (where applicable)
• Retention bonus
• Travel allowance
• Free accommodation for remote workers (staff may be required to co-share based on availability)
• Use of company vehicles when travelling to communities
• Access to a free Employee Assistance Program for professional and non-professional related matter
• Professional development opportunities – Supportive onboarding and orientation processes, supervision and support, annual goal setting and training conversations

How to Apply

To learn more, contact Emma on 02 9044 9135 or email your CV to emma.leck@evolvetalent.com.au

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