TRIM Practice Lead

About The Role

We are recruiting a Trauma & Resiliency Informed Practice (TRIM) Training Lead to be part ofthe Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR).

You will play a vital role in building and integrating the Commission’s trauma and resiliency - informed approach as set out in the ICRIR Framework for Implementing the Trauma and Resiliency Informed Model (TRIM) - Independent Commission for Reconciliation & Information Recovery. You will deliver TRIM trainings, based in the Community Resiliency Model, work with other staff to develop and improve existing trainings and contribute to the life of the team overseeing the Commission's co-designed trauma-informed and resiliency-focused workplan.

With the team under the leadership of the Assistant Commissioner:
Support & Engagement, you will engage in a unique opportunity tomake a significant contribution to an organisation that is undertaking complex and important work.

The end-to-end journey of an investigation is all about the people who will eventually benefit from information recovery. There are three phases through the information recovery process:
Support, Information Recovery, and the Chief Commissioner’s Reporting and Findings team. At every stage, victims, survivors, and families must be able to understand what is happening and what progress is being made. The Commission will give anyone who makes contact a clear understanding of how the Commission works, the powers it has at its disposal and what that work might lead to.

TRIM support, TRIM-guided engagement, education and reflection, should be delivered consistently across the investigative journey and as the TRIM training lead you will play your part in ensuring this happens.

The post sits within the Investigations Directorate in the Commission, headed by the Commissioner for Investigations, Peter Sheridan. The Directorate undertakes all engagement activity with requesting individuals, undertakes investigations and presents evidence to the Reporting and Findings Team so that determinations can be made for reports produced on the authority of the Chief Commissioner. The Directorate is multi-disciplinary with a mix of backgrounds and skills, and the successful individual will be expected to play their part in setting a culture reflecting the Commission’s mission and values and overall objectives.

You will work within a team that excels as trainers and experts in the Community Resiliency Model, working collegially to support other aspects of the team’s work, including TRIM support for staff, TRIM case conferencing, TRIM learning and development. You will contribute to the team's overall mission to build a trauma-informed and resiliency-focused Commission focused on supporting victims, survivors and their families.

The TRIM Lead will work closely with the Assistant Commissioner, as part of the TRIM team to:

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• Integrate the Commission’s Trauma and Resiliency Informed Model (TRIM), delivering existing training, developing new trainings bespoke to teams and using the TRIM skills and concepts across the Commission, continuously improving and using co-design approaches
• Support the development of teams across the Commission to effectively apply TRIM, learn and embody the TRIM skills and develop Commission resilience
• Integrate into the work of investigator teams to support TRIM approaches to everyday interactions and increase understanding and mutual learning, including working with investigator teams to ensure a case management model that is trauma-informed and resiliency-focused
• Assist facilitation of the reflective, learning aspects of TRIM for staff, including providing spaces for reflective learning with colleagues, group-based sessions and provide input to TRIM focused case conferencing
• Assist the Commission to maintain a focus on victims, survivors and witnesses and provide support to the Assistant Commissioner where needed to achieve continuous learning and improvements
• Promote the TRIM approach and the TRIM principles across the Commission

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture,…