Disability Case Manager

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Full time

**Salary**:Salary not specified

**Grade**:VPSG3

**Occupation**: Prison and Corrective Services

**Location**: Loddon

**Reference**: VG/8299MAY2025

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers

We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?
- ** Work as part of the Offender Services Team across Loddon Prison and Middleton**:

- **Ongoing opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team within Corrections Victoria**:

- **VPS Grade 3: $79,122 - $96,073 plus superannuation**

**About Us**:
Corrections Victoria is responsible for the direction, management and operation of Victoria's corrections system, which incorporates prisons and Community Correctional Services. As a service agency within the Department of Justice and Community Safety, Corrections Victoria develops and implements policies, programs and services that ensure the safe and secure containment of prisoners, and that seek to rehabilitate offenders by addressing the underlying causes of offending behaviour.

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**:
As a Disability Case Manager, you will be part of the Offender Services team to deliver a range of pre-release planning services for prisoners with an intellectual/cognitive disability. You will work directly with prisoners and assist prison staff in the management of prisoners with an intellectual/cognitive disability.

Some of your duties will include:

- Developing and providing complex living skills and social skills training in daily living activities for individuals or groups of people with a disability.
- Liaising and collaborating with prison staff, internal and external Service Providers, Government and Community Agencies.
- Participating, organising and/or chairing meetings with relevant staff, service providers and stakeholders.

For further information about the role please review the attached position description.

**About You**:
To be successful in this role you will be able to demonstrate:

- Demonstrated experience in working with people with cognitive impairments.
- An understanding of the challenges involved in working within a forensic environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications:

- Desirably, a qualification in social sciences or an area of study related to disability.

**How to Apply**:
**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.

Applications close Monday 9 June 2025 at 11.59PM

Posted 26 May 2025