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Aboriginal Youth Justice Caseworker
4 weeks ago
**Aboriginal Youth Justice Caseworker - Wollongong Youth Justice Community Office, Youth Justice**
- **Ongoing, Full time**:
- **Location: Wollongong**:
- **Clerk Grade 6/7, Salary ($96,164 - $104,995 pa), plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading**
- This position is open to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people only._
**Your role**
Provide front line services to young people at the Wollongong Youth Justice Community Office. This involves providing a range of quality externally and internally sourced services to detainees, youth justice conferencing clients, victims of crime and court mandated young people and their families.
**What you’ll do**
As part of the Wollongong Youth Justice Community office team, you will
- Undertake case management activities that target appropriate areas of need/risk to the young person re-offending. This includes case planning, organising and facilitating case conferences and delivering offence focused intervention programs to young people.
- Work collaboratively with Youth Justice staff such as other YJ Caseworkers, Youth Officers and Psychologists, along with a range of government and non-government stakeholders to connect young people to services appropriate to their individual case plan and monitor the progress of the young person.
- Work closely with courts, parole authorities, review panels and legal professionals and provide clear and concise advice, briefings, reports and other formal written communication for internal and external stakeholders.
You will also
- Work as part of a multi-disciplined team that aims to reduce re-offending of young people, enhance their functioning and support reintegration into their families and the community.
- Work to influence change in the overrepresentation of Aboriginal young people in the justice system
- Build strong relationships with partner agencies to support and strengthen families and cultural connections
- Use cultural knowledge to help inform and shape service delivery
- Provide an Aboriginal perspective when working within your team and with other stakeholders
**What we’re looking for**
- Relevant tertiary qualifications (diploma or higher) in social work, welfare, psychology, criminology, education or related field or equivalent experience.
- Current Driver’s Licence
- Current NSW Working with Children Clearance for paid employment
- Documented verification of Aboriginality.
The Department will accept proof of Aboriginality confirming the following:
- You are an Aboriginal person of Aboriginal descent.
- You identify as being Aboriginal; and
- You are accepted as such by the community in which you live
An acceptable form of documented verification is a “Confirmation of Aboriginality” letter, provided to you by a local Aboriginal organisation that includes a common seal from that organisation.
Download the role description.
**We do work that really matters**
Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.
**Are you ready to join us?**
**Applications close** Sunday 26 February 2023 at 11:59pm AEST.
**Got a question?**
**Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit**
We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.
To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit our careers site.
**Other Information**
A Talent Pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.
Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic some interviews and assessments may be performed using alternative methods. For more information visit Our Process.
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