Caseworker
7 months ago
Key responsibilities
- Work effectively within a statutory environment to manage the dual roles of monitoring young offenders' compliance with court orders and intervening to address issues that place them at risk of re-offending.
- Proactively work to reduce re-offending using culturally appropriate, collaborative and evidence-based assessment and intervention skills, processes and programs including restorative justice activities.
- Work collaboratively as part of a team including a range of internal and external stakeholders, to achieve positive outcomes for victims, young offenders, their families, and the community.
- Prepare and present verbal and written reports to the Children's Court on behalf of the Chief Executive. Conduct pre and post court interviews, prepare quality presentence reports, affidavits, and other relevant documentation to support best practice outcomes for young people in the justice system.
- Undertake record keeping and information management tasks to ensure accountability.
- Actively participate in a range of continuing professional development activities to continuously improve your ability to contribute to organisational goals, including training, supervision, and relevant accreditation.
Delegations
Caseworkers have a range of statutory delegations under the Youth Justice Act 1992.
What we are looking for
The Queensland Public Service Leadership competencies for Queensland (LCQ) applies to all role profiles within Youth Justice. This role profile is aligned to the Individual Contributor profile of the LCQ and outlines the relevant competencies from the Individual Contributor profile that are the basis of assessment of your suitability for the role.
We will assess your suitability for this role by looking at what you've done previously
- the knowledge, skills and experience you've built, your potential for development, and your personal qualities.
To be successful in this role you will be required to demonstrate capability in the following areas:
Vision
- Stimulates ideas and innovation: Gathers insights and embraces new ideas and innovation to inform future practice.
- Makes insightful decisions: Makes considered, ethical and courageous decisions based on insight into the broader context Results
- Builds enduring relationships: Builds and sustains relationships to enable the collaborative delivery of customer-focused outcomes.
- Drives accountability and outcomes: Demonstrates accountability for the execution and quality of results through professionalism, persistence and
transparency.
Accountability
- Pursues continuous growth: Pursues opportunities for growth through agile learning, and development of self-awareness.
- Demonstrates sound governance: Maintains a high standard of practice through governance and risk management.
Role requirements
- Citizenship/visa: to be appointed to a position, you must be an Australian citizen, have permanent residency status or a visa permitting you to work in Australia.
- Newly appointed public service employees are obliged, within one month of starting duty, to make a disclosure of any employment as a lobbyist in the previousThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
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