Principal Practitioner - Corella Place and Emu Creek
Department of Justice and Community Safety VIC – Ararat VIC
- Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity.
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking a Principal Practitioner to provide a critical role at Corella Place and Emu Creek.
About the Business Unit
The Post Sentence Branch, within the Community Operations and Offender Services Division of Corrections Victoria, provides central oversight and governance of the post sentence scheme and offenders subject to post sentence orders.
About the Role
The Principal Practitioner will require broad and extensive case management expertise for oversight of case management practices and the capability to provide effective staff supervision, training and mentoring across a service stream of residents, including violent and sexual offenders and post-sentence supervision. The Principal Practitioner reports to the General Manager, Corella Place and is a key position in the regional and CCS management structure providing supervision of case managers monitoring prisoners on parole and offenders subject to post-sentence supervision.
Some of your duties will include:
- Provide direct line management, professional development, leadership, and supervision of a team of Specialist Case Managers who are responsible for case managing residents within the identified offender group.
- Progress and monitor the shifting nature of violent and sexual offender management to align with best practice literature and research of offender rehabilitation in the management of violent and sexual offenders, and in accordance with the CV's Offender Management Framework.
- Provide practice-based leadership, make authoritative decisions based on sound practice expertise and provide authoritative advice to case managers, with particular focus on identified risk and incident management.
To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Extensive experience in the case management of complex and/or high-risk individuals.
- Expert understanding of and experience in best practice initiatives in relation to risk management and therapeutic work with high risk and complex individuals.
Qualifications
- A tertiary qualification in a relevant field is desirable.
How to Apply
Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) and misconduct screening.
If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly workplace for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.
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