Melissa Carson

Social Work Team Leader

I started with Tradewind in March 2014 as the Welfare consultant and after 4 months I moved into the Social Work consultant role. Back then the whole of social work consisted of 6 consultants. By December 2014 I had moved into the Social Work Manager position. As we grew larger we then had a Perm division and a compliance team as well as many extra consultants and we had a structural change so in 2016 I became the Team Leader for the Social Work team. I oversaw Mental Health, Asylum, Justice, Youth, Housing, AOD, Family Services, Aged and Disability. Then in 2017 I went on maternity leave and had my son Ethan. I returned in 2018 and we siloed off sectors for them to each have their own Team Leader.  

I currently am the Team Leader for - Mental Health, Asylum, Justice, Youth, Housing, AOD and Disaster Recovery. I have Dee Herde, Sarah Ingram and Fatima Taleb in my team.