Case Manager

**Department of Human Services**
**Job reference**: 703970
**Location**: 5000 - ADELAIDE
**Job status**: Short Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone

**Role Highlights**
- Exciting opportunity for those with a passion for working with young people
- Convenient CBD location
- Work with a dynamic and enthusiastic team

Here at the Department of Human Services (DHS), we strive to deliver modern programs, services and policy that strengthen communities and enable South Australians to actively participate in community life. With people at the heart of what we do and a commitment to child safety, ageing well and supporting people with disability, we work to increase inclusion, independence and decision-making, and help our communities when it matters most.

Our Community and Aboriginal Partnerships Division helps to build community safety and wellbeing by providing support and services to children, young people and families, including those involved with the youth justice system, remote Aboriginal communities, and people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The division also leads the department's Closing the Gap work.

**Role** **Details**

Are you someone with a strong social justice ethos and the desire to make a real difference in the lives of some of the most vulnerable young people in the community?
Are you great at building relationships?
If you like to think creatively, problem-solve complex challenges and have great variety in your work role, we would love to hear from you

**About Us**

**Why work with us?**
Make a difference in the lives of vulnerable young people and their families.
Work with a bunch of passionate colleagues.

The Case Manager position carries out a range of diverse professional tasks and functions, including:

- attendance at youth courts as a DHS representative and provide appropriate targeted responses from information and assessments to improve outcomes for young people by promoting alternatives to detention and integration into the community through liaison with relevant stakeholders, young people and their families in negotiating the legal system
- supervising Statutory Youth Justice mandates and providing quality through-care case management to children and young people
- assessment, analysis, reporting and recording on offending behaviours and compliance
- strengthening child/young person and family functioning to support non-offending behaviour.

**Special Conditions**
- National Police Check required.
- Employment-related Screening Check required.
- Some out of hours work may be required.
- Some interstate and intrastate travel may be required.
- Must hold a current Australian issued driver’s licence (equivalent to minimum class C).

**Essential Requirements**

The role is classified as AHP1, requiring the incumbent to hold a degree level qualification in Social Work leading to eligibility for (full) membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.

**Role Status**: Term up 20/02/2026

**Salary Range**: $71,217 - $86,938 (AHP1)

**Location**: Adelaide

**Diversity and Inclusion**

DHS is committed to making our services and workplaces safe and inclusive for all people and ensuring the full diversity of the communities we serve are represented in our workforce, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability and/or neurodivergence, young people, older people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, LGBTIQA+ and gender diverse people.

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working, including part time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. We also celebrate the many strengths and skills people with disability and/or neurodivergent people bring to our workplace and acknowledge our role in ensuring a supportive work environment for people with disability and/or neurodivergent people to thrive in.

**Applications close**: 20/10/2025 11:30 PM