Disability Support Officer
7 months ago
Utilise your support and advocacy expertise to provide support and advice to Rehabilitation and Reintegration Branch
- Fixed, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service
- VPS Grade 3: $73,842 - $89,661 plus superannuation.
**About the Business Unit**:
The Rehabilitation and Reintegration Branch, within the Community Operations and Offender Services Division, is responsible for a range of offender programs and services across both prisons and Community Correctional Services.
**About the Role**:
The Disability Support Officer provides an integral disability support co-ordination role within the disability support stream of the PDSI service.
**Some of your duties will consist of**:
- Providing disability support to people accommodated within Victorian prisons who demonstrate signs of cognitive impairment, in accordance with the PDSI service delivery.
- Managing a dynamic caseload of service users presenting with cognitive impairments who have a range of disability associated needs.
- Supporting service users to access relevant disability support services, both in the community and within prison settings.
**About you**:
**To be successful in this role, you will have**:
- Demonstrated experience working with and implementing supports for people who demonstrate cognitive impairments.
- Demonstrated experience in leading case
- co-ordination, support pathway planning, advocacy and providing supportive services to people who demonstrate cognitive impairments.
**Qualifications**:
- Relevant tertiary qualification or experience in the field of allied health or the disability sector is highly desirable for this role.
- A valid Victorian driver's licence is required for this role.
How to apply
**FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES**:
**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.
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