An exciting opportunity is now open for an experienced Team Leader to lead our Family Law Teams in South West Victoria.

Based in the coastal city of Warrnambool, what could be a better way to start your day but with magnificent ocean views, a crisp sea breeze and tranquility surrounding you!

rocky shores and some of the most dramatic coastal landscape in the country.

You just might get to do some whale watching in your lunch break! The windswept coast of Warrnambool is a paradise for walkers. so get your runners on in your breaks and take in what this city has to offer, and if you don’t live in Warrnambool, we are happy to relocate you!

As an employee of OzChild, you will have a genuine opportunity to make the most of your talents, broaden your experience and take on rewarding challenges.

The Role

The Family Law Services Team Leader plays a pivotal role in leading and supporting the delivery of high-quality, client-centred services within a regional community. Working in close collaboration with the Manager of OzChild Southwest Victoria. The Team Leader provides strategic and operational leadership to a multidisciplinary team, ensuring services are responsive to the unique needs of families, children, and young people in the region.

In addition to leadership responsibilities, the Team Leader maintains an active caseload, modelling best practice in family law service delivery. This dual role ensures the Team Leader remains closely connected to frontline practice, enabling informed decision-making, mentoring, and continuous improvement.

The Team Leader is responsible for fostering strong community relationships, promoting service visibility, and ensuring compliance with funding agreements and quality standards. They play a key role in integrating services across Family Relationship Centres (FRC), Family Dispute Resolution (FDR), and Family Law Pathways Networks (FLPN), while championing culturally safe and inclusive practices for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and those from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds

Your specialist Community Services skills will ensure your success as the Team Leader for Family Law Services. You you will support a team of practitioners/ mediators delivering an integrated, wrap around, trauma-informed service to families accessing pre and post separation services. The Team Leader role is critical to lead the team to provide effective and efficient assessments, mediation, counselling, education and information and Family Dispute Resolution. You will work closely with our Children’s Contact Service and Post Separation Services Teams, benefiting from a collaborative culture.

Please visit our website for further information on who we are, our work and our range of programs https://www.ozchild.org.au/

Who we are looking for:

We are looking for a Team Leader who has worked in the Community Services sector with experience in leading and managing staff and programs. We welcome applications from Social Workers , mental health practitioners, Psychologists or related discipline.Experience and knowledge working with parents and children with a child focused lens and an understanding of family law will be highly regarded.

• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following: Family Dispute Resolution, family law, counselling, child inclusive practice family and community services, conflict resolution and management and mediation.
• Highly developed leadership skills
• Engagement and rapport building,
• Empathy and reflective skills,
• Supporting your team to find their own solutions and a focus on excellence in service delivery
• Using evidence-based decision making
• Confidence working in a high paced, agile environment to meet the needs of a diverse range of service users.
• Tertiary qualifications in Social Work, Psychology, or a related discipline
• A post graduate certificate in Family Dispute Resolution is highly desirable
• Individual Family Dispute Resolution Registration Number

(Please view the position description for a full list of desired skills and experience)

OzChild offers:

• A full-time permanent position
• 38 hours per week
• SCHCADS level 7.1 $119,093.52
• Salary packaging up to $15,900
• Relocation assistance up to $3000 available to you
• Work from home, flexible working arrangements
• Primary office location is Warrnambool
• Ongoing training

OzChild is committed to the employment of Aboriginal people and providing a work environment in which Aboriginal peoples' cultures, beliefs and values are acknowledged and respected, and in which the individual career goals and personal aims of Aboriginal staff are identified, promoted and achieved.

OzChild is a child-safe organisation committed to protecting children and young people from all forms of abuse, bullying, exploitation and neglect, and to creating environments in all our programs and services where children are safe and feel safe.

OzChild is an equal opportunity employer and encourages individuals of diverse backgrounds to apply.

Successful candidates will be required to undergo a police check & provide a WWCC card for VIC