Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time / Ongoing
Organisation: Department of Justice and Community Safety
**Salary**: $91,418 - $103,725
Occupation: Community Services
Reference: DOJ/0914MAR23
At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we're looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.
We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We're all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we'd love to hear from you.
The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children's rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.
For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers
We're proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?
- **1X Ongoing, full time opportunity based in Reservoir CCS**:
- **Play a critical role in helping support community safety, managing a caseload of complex offenders**:
- **Excellent training and development opportunities**
**About us**
**About the role**
As an Advanced Case Manager, you will manage a caseload of complex and high-risk offenders on court orders who have completed part of their sentence in custody. Using evidence-based frameworks, you will deliver dynamic practice in the case management of offenders with complex needs and those who have committed serious offences including ensuring effective assessment, planning, intervention and review. Furthermore, you will motivate and influence individuals in the case management process, modelling pro social behaviours and draw on offender strengths based approaches.
Other elements of the role include:
- contributing to a strengthened and integrated through-care approach for offenders transitioning from prison onto court orders, through close partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
- encouraging offenders to be take ownership, accountability and responsibility to organise necessary appointments with other services required (such as Centrelink, housing, and medical appointments).
- linking offenders with services, including alcohol and other drugs (AOD), mental health, housing, and mental health
- producing written reports with appropriate analysis and recommendations to senior stakeholders and other standard documents in line with procedural guidelines
**About you**
To be successful in this role you will:
- be a strong communicator, where you can adapt your communication style accordingly
- have a non-judgemental attitude, treating offenders with respect as members of our community
- be comfortable working in a team environment, assisting other team members to work on shared goals
- demonstrate strong stakeholder engagement with the ability to influence and negotiate at all levels
- ideally have exposure to complex groups such as homelessness, drug and alcohol, and child protection
- have the ability to practice 'self-care', maintain a work/life balance, and reach out to colleagues, mentors, managers or external providers (including EAP) if required
**Why work with us?**
- You will join a strong working, transparent and collaborative team environment
- Opportunity for promotion and development within CCS and the greater department
- The hands on experience you will gain working with a complex cohort of individuals
- You are provided with a safe environment, with safety precautions in place in the rare case of any threat or danger arises
- Our team celebrate success and acknowledge achievements of individuals and the team
- You have the option of partaking in further education funded by the department, where we offer training to complete your Certificate III in Correctional Practice. If you choose to partake in this study, you are expected to complete the certificate during working hours (as opposed to in your personal time). You are also provided with a mentor to support you.
**How to apply**
**_ IMPORTANT INFORMATION:_**
The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees consistent with the department's obligations under the _Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic). _Therefore, there is a requirement that all DJCS employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to undertake duties outside of their homes.
At interview stage and prior to commencement of employment with the department, you will need to provide evidence that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 with three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
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