Case Management Practice Lead

**Provide best practice case management advice and support to Community Correctional Services (CCS).**:

- **Full Time, Fixed Term opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team.**:

- **VPS Grade 5: $113,022 - $136,747 plus superannuation.**

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking a Case Management Practice Lead to provide a critical role within Community Operations and Parole.

**About the Business Unit**

Justice Services is responsible for the direction, management and operation of Victoria's Community Correctional Services (CCS) across more than 35 locations. It ensures individuals are safely managed in the community and aims to rehabilitate individuals by addressing the underlying causes of offending behaviour.

Community Operations and Parole is responsible for providing central end-to-end oversight of the CCS service system and includes System Integrity and Workforce Capability (SIWC), Practice Development and Review Branch, Court Assessment and Prosecutions Services Central Unit, Statewide Community Work and Partnerships and Parole Central Unit. Community Operations and Parole also includes and the Adult Parole Board (the Board) Secretariat, which provides operational and administrative support to ensure the Board can perform its functions.

**About the Role**

The Case Management Practice Lead is responsible for providing expert advice to CCS staff regarding best practice case management and will contribute to the integrity, implementation and embedding of continuous practice improvement. The Case Management Practice Lead will be responsible for a portfolio of activities, which may include ,Providing support and advice to specific CCS regions, Development and implementation of priority strategic projects, internal and external stakeholder management and management of contracted services.

As the Case Management Practice Lead, some of your duties will include:

- Provide leadership and guidance to CCS practitioners and managers to encourage and support best practice case management.
- Contribute to practice development and delivery of professional development and training for CCS practitioners, managers and leaders.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

**About you**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Demonstrated expertise in best practice case management and associated practices in a forensic setting.
- Demonstrated understanding and operational knowledge of CCS, and key issues impacting Justice Services, Corrections Victoria or like organisations.
- Sound knowledge of Victorian government administrative processes would be desirable.

**Qualifications/requirements**
- A tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline is highly desirable.
- Portfolio allocation may change depending on organisational priorities, and travel to regional locations will be required.

**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.