Jane Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Shortland, Nsw, Au

Lead all fee for service programs at The Canopy Inc.· Casework Support Scheme: Ensure all panel deed and program guidelines are delivered and all Family Time Sessions occur in accordance with Department of Communities and Justice requirements.· Children’s Contact Services: contact visits and changeover for separated families and families involved in the Family Law Court. Conduct a feasibility study on ensuring quality service delivery.· Family Plus: Restoration and Preservation in home and centre supports. Promote and quote on service provision, create policies, procedures, outcome measures, and practice frameworks.· Oversee finances, pricing, quotes, policy, procedure and system creation, research, develop and evaluate practice frameworks, supervise staff, oversee continuous quality improvement.· The Canopy Inc. Leadership Group: identify organisational opportunities, lead practice governance on an organisational level, create and build organisational culture, operationalize organisational values, identify opportunities to enhance worker wellbeing. Successfully Identify leadership frameworks for the organisation to utilise, attend Dare to Lead training with the Leadership Group as a Group enact the principles of Dare to Lead.· Reconciliation Working Committee Member: participate in all Reconciliation Working Committee Meetings and events, complete assigned activities within The Canopy Inc’s Reconciliation Action Plan. Identify and organise cultural safety training and cultural immersion opportunities suitable for the whole organisation.

Lead a team of Functional Family Therapy- Child Welfare therapists.· Successfully complete all FFT-CW training, fidelity and dissemination requirements relevant to the role.· Administer Functional Family Therapy to a small caseload of families.· Oversee referrals into the program from Department of Communities and Justice.· Ensure FFT-CW site is meeting all contractual requirements under the Department of Communities and Justice Family Preservation funding requirements.· Facilitate peer supervision, pre-staffing and one on one supervision on a fortnightly basis.· Attend clinical consultant sessions weekly to meet requirements for fidelity and dissemination of the model.· Oz Child NSW Leadership Group: participate in the NSW Leadership group and contribute to ensuring NSW aligns with organisational objectives of delivering only evidence-based programs which have existing and demonstrated outcomes in ensuring children remain in the care of family.· I left Oz Child due to a family diagnosis of cancer and a need to work on a temporary basis.

Lead a team of family workers in the provision of a mobile targeted early intervention to families in low SEIFA communities across the Lower Hunter via family support in the home, parenting programs, mentoring and supported playgroups.· Conduct all intake and assessments for families accessing the services.· Plan and coordinate the service to meet all contracted targets, for the last four years of my leadership this service exceeded all targets for four consecutive years across a large geographical area.· Oversee all quarterly meetings with Department of Communities and Justice Commissioning and Planning Officers.· Oversee contracted data base, internal data base and outcome measures, write the services Program Logic and update accordingly with current data.· Accredited Parents Under Pressure Therapist, mentor and advocate at an organizational and funding body level for all practitioners to be trained in a current evidence-based approach to ensure all families had access to practice which has evidence of reducing child protection risk.Team Lead temporarily Professional Experience Team in The College of Health Medicine and Wellbeing: Jan 2023-April 2023.

Manage all Family and Community Programs: Special Needs Unlimited Group Steve Waugh Foundation, Our Health Rules Department of Social Services Communities for Children, Make and Take Indigenous Health, Uni4You UoN CEHEE, Deadly Streaming UoN CEHEE, Hunter Family Outreach Project Department of Communities and Justice.· Manage all finances in partnership with UoN Finance Business Partners, submit all acquittals for signature at university level in a timely manner to meet funding requirements, in conjunction with any additional reporting requirements, including proposed budgets for new financial years.· Create a business plan for the Centre’s Family and Community Programs, meet with UoN Executive within the College of Health Medicine and Wellbeing to collaborate around UoN wide restructures to preserve and achieve a realignment of Family and Community programs to College strategic objectives. Liaise with Peer Assisted Learning PALS to shift CEHHE programs to their purview. Liaise with PVC Indigenous Strategy and Leadership to retain Deadly Streaming and work in close partnership with the PVC and Wollotuka. Oversee allied health placements from 9 disciplines.· Successfully pivot all family and community programs, create new programs, liaise and negotiate with funding bodies, to meet all contracted outcomes during COVID.· Supervise all Team Leaders and Administrative Support Team within the Family Action Centre.

Oversee a caseload of volunteers providing Home-Start to families in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie, volunteer training and appreciation events. Deliver Parenting Programs.· Family Worker Hunter Outreach Project: hold a complete caseload of families with children in their care up to 18yo. Created and facilitated residential trauma informed parenting program called The Fishbowl for women and children’s refuges across Newcastle and Lake Macquarie. In partnership with Warlga Ngurra Women and Children’s Refuge rewrite The Fishbowl to be culturally safe for Indigenous Families, facilitate and evaluate The Fishbowl in Refuge.· Causal Academic: Family Action Centre teaching into Engaging Communities, conduct tutorial groups, mark assignments. Participate in development of course materials.· Casual Research Assistant Fathers and Families Building Connections through Play: facilitate video feedback sessions for Fathers and children under 5 involved in the Family Law Court, using video feedback model being researched.· Casual Research Assistant Family and Community Programs: conduct a feasibility study of widening participation programs in Lower Hunter Communities. Research participation of out of home care (OOHC) young people at UoN, create and facilitated Learning Unleashed for carers of OOHC children and young people to support access to university.· Project Coordinator Widening Participation Program Community Connect: facilitate community consultation sessions with community to create projects for student placement opportunities. Liaise with Colleges and Schools within UoN to facilitate placements of students within identified projects. Support students and placement sites to complete the projects.

Mission Australia Hunter Gambling Counselling Service· Senior Worker: Newcastle Adult Accommodation Support Service, lead the crisis accommodation support service housing four adults and two intoxicated people. Lead the outreach team.· Community Outreach Worker: casework support to adults experiencing a period of homelessness at Eastlakes Women and Children Refuge, Matthew Talbot Hostel and all medium-term housing sites including Magistrates Early Referral into Treatments sites.· Community Development Worker: oversee current community development programs, Stories in the Street, and Volunteer Home Visiting, facilitate the Newcastle Homeless Interagency Network.· Research and Evaluation: evaluate all services provided in the Newcastle Adult Accommodation Service.

Master Of Social Science, Human Service Management

Master of Social Science specializing in Human Service Management

Bachelor Of Social Science, Social Welfare Counselling Community Development

Double major

Master, Social Science

Specialising in Human Service Management

Bachelor, Social Welfare & Community Development