Specialist Case Manager

Description:

* Join the Offender Services Team to assist with long term planning and transitional support for offenders
* An Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team
* VPS Grade 3: $76,817 -$93,275 plus superannuation
About Us:
Located at Castlemaine, Loddon Prison is a 477 bed Medium Security Prison for sentenced male prisoners. Adjacent to Loddon Prison is Middleton, a 236 bed Restricted Minimum-Security Prison for sentenced male prisoners. The focus of both prisons is rehabilitation via individual case management, employment, education, training and also the provision of programs and targeted interventions to address offending behaviour and promote the development of prosocial behaviour. Both prisons provide contemporary and quality correctional services that prepare prisoners for transition and reintegration.
About the Role:
The position of Specialist Case Manager will work as part of the Offender Services Team at each prison. The Specialist Case Manager role is to ensure prisoners with long term planning, complex, high risk and/or intensive needs have the required transitional support. The role aims to streamline a prisoner's pathway to successful release through the coordination of appropriate services and activities.
Some of your other duties will include:
* Collaborating closely with Custodial and Offender Services staff and other stakeholders to assist in the identification of service gaps and prisoner needs.
* Coordinating prisoner's applications for parole and contribute to the Case Management Review process.
* Source support service systems for offenders and assist in negotiating access to, or set-up of, those services.
Pleas see the attached position description for further details regarding the key accountabilities.
About You:
As our ideal candidate, you will possess:
* Demonstrated understanding of transition and reintegration issues and needs of prisoners.
* Demonstrated ability to administer risk assessment tools with individual prisoners.
* Demonstrated capacity or aptitude to work with clients who are difficult to engage individually and in group work settings.
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 national police checks 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.
FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES:
* For this particular vacancy, priority consideration applies to Victorian Public Service (VPS) and select employees of the Victorian Public Sector who apply through the Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) jobs board platform.
* For all VPS employees, due to the new Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) policy, please apply through the JSE to be eligible to be considered for this position in the first round.
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 environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.