Cisp Case Manager

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Fixed-term - Full-time

**Salary**: $79,122 - $96,073

**Grade**:VPS 3

**Occupation**:Community services

**Location**:Grampians - Ballarat

**Reference**:VG/MC2479NS

Career development opportunity at Ballarat Magistrates Court
Fixed term until October 2026 (parental leave)
Be part of a supportive and dynamic team
** About us**
- Court Services Victoria provides corporate services and facilities to support the performance of the judicial, quasi-judicial and administrative functions of Victoria's courts and tribunal, Judicial College and Judicial Commission. Collectively, Victoria's Supreme, County, Magistrates', Children's, and Coroners courts, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT), the Judicial College of Victoria, the Judicial Commission of Victoria, and Court Services Victoria (CSV) are referred to as the ‘Courts Group'.
- Our people enable the Courts Group to deliver on each jurisdictions own strategic priorities while also pursuing strategic opportunities that are interconnected and deliver benefits more broadly.
- The Magistrates' Court of Victoria (MCV) is the first level of the Victorian court system and is a jurisdiction within the Court Services Victoria. It has a long history of providing justice for the people of Victoria in metropolitan and regional courts across the state. The Court determines in excess of 300,000 cases per annum at 51 locations, equating to approximately 90 percent of all cases that come before Victorian courts each year. The Court aims to be an innovative, accessible, and responsive court that provides quality services to the Victorian community.

**About the role**
- The CISP Case Manger is an integral role that provides case management support utilising a client-centred and problem-solving approach to people on bail with a range of complex needs who are participating in the CISP program to engage with their rehabilitation and achieve positive behavioural change. To do this, you will:
- Engage with clients through assessment and treatment planning to develop a person-centred individual support plan.
- Possess knowledge of the safe and effective delivery of evidence
- informed interventions and an ability to assess and manage risks to the client and others

People participating in the CISP program may present with a range of complex needs including mental illness and/or cognitive impairment, alcohol and substance issues, homelessness, family violence, and/or limited social supports to achieve recovery and/or stabilisation of their condition.

**Benefits**
- We care about your health and wellbeing and have partnered with Fitness Passport, an initiative that allows you to access significantly discounted fitness membership program
- A range of flexible working arrangements
- Peer Support Program designed to help create a safe and supportive workplace where colleagues look out for each other
- Koori staff network to enhance support for Koori staff and ensure that appropriate networks and services are readily available
- Ongoing professional development within a collaborative and supportive work environment

**About You**
- Tertiary qualification (minimum Diploma level; degree level highly desirable)
- Relevant to case management practice with forensic clients, such as social work, psychology, welfare, drug and alcohol or another related field, and/or relevant experience.
- Demonstrated capacity or experience in case management of clients presenting with complex needs, with well-developed knowledge and/or relevant experience in at least one of the following speciality areas: mental health, acquired brain injury, disability, alcohol and substance use, family violence, or homelessness (highly desirable)
- Detailed knowledge of the mental health and/or disability service system
- Demonstrated capacity to establish and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
- Sound knowledge of evidenced
- informed practice models and frameworks for working with clients with complex family violence, disability, mental health and/or AOD needs
- Excellent case formulation and written communication skills

**How to apply**
- resume
- a short cover letter

**Other information**
- CSV is the employer of staff at Courts Group. CSV has a firm commitment through its Koori Employment Plan to increase participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across our workforce.
- We value the unique backgrounds, experiences, and contributions that each person brings to our community and encourage and celebrate diversity. Those from the LGBTQIA+ community, women, people of all ages, with disabilities, culturally and linguistically diverse people, and those who are neurodiverse, are encouraged to apply.
- We aim to create a workforce that reflects the community in which we live.

- Applications close Tuesday 12 August 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 27 June 2025