Aboriginal Assistant Manager

2 weeks ago


Wollongong, Australia NSW Government -Department of Communities and Justice Full time

**Aboriginal Assistant Manager ?**

**Nowra Youth Justice Community Office,**

**Youth Justice**
- **Ongoing Full-Time**:

- **Location: Nowra**:

- **Clerk Grade 8/9 Salary ($113,746 - $124,258 pa), plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading**

**_This position is open to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander persons only, Australia s First Nations people._**

**Your role**

Manage a multidisciplinary team providing service/program delivery that aims to the reduce re-offending of juvenile offenders and enhance their functioning and/or reintegration into the community and increase community safety.

This role is committed to building a workforce that better reflects the perspectives of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities we serve.

**What you ll do**

As part of the Nowra Youth Justice Community Office, you will
- Develop and maintain relationships with the Aboriginal community and key stakeholders to successfully deliver programs.
- Manage a team in service delivery and programs ensuring efficient allocation of resources and ongoing performance management and development of staff.
- Supervise staff in delivering intervention and facilitating youth justice conferences, including day-to-day discussions, formal supervision, case plan reviews and report approval to ensure good quality intervention, duty of care and support the organisation s primary goal of reducing recidivism among young people who offend.
- Undertake Risk Assessment and Management to identify risk posed to the community by clients and how this can be minimised through intervention, supervision and risk management strategies and ensure the safety (physical and psychological wellbeing) of staff in the field and in the office.
- Work collaboratively, coordinate and communicate with staff, Area Manager and a range of government and non-government stakeholders on service delivery and best practice standards.
- Implement changes ensuring that decisions made at a management level are communicated clearly and with transparency to staff, to ensure staff are fully briefed on current actions and activities in the unit, create clear expectations, and encourage trust in leadership in accordance with Departmental policies, procedures, standards and best practice guidelines.

**What we re looking for**
- Recognised tertiary qualifications (diploma or higher) in social work, welfare, psychology, criminology, education or related field or relevant experience.
- A current Driver s Licence
- Current NSW Working with Children Check clearance
- Confirmation of Aboriginality

As an Identified role, this role is open only to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander persons, Australia s First Nations people.

Where a position is identified, an applicant s race is a genuine occupational qualification and authorised by Section 14(d) of the _Anti-Discrimination Act 1977_.

There are two alternatives to confirming your Aboriginality, one of which must be uploaded to be considered for the role as follows. **Either will be accepted**:
Confirmation of Aboriginality form

or

Written confirmation from 2-3 Aboriginal organisations within the community in which you live/work, which addresses the three criteria listed below:
- is of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent, and
- identifies as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person, and is accepted
- Is accepted as such by the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Community

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**
- The Assistant Manager is required to lead a multidisciplinary team. Can you provide an example of a time when you lead a team of people to achieve an outcome. What strategies did you use to lead and how did you determine your success.
- Youth Justice works with a range of community service providers to deliver services to young people. Provide an example of when you have raised a service issue regarding an Aboriginal client with service providers, and how you collaboratively worked to resolve the issue

**Applications close **Friday 1 December 2023 at 11:59pm AEST.

**Got a question**

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

**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 d



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