Team Leader

Targeted Vacancy
Possession of a tertiary degree relevant to the role such as social work, behavioural science or social science, criminology or other recognised degree [see the Other important information section below regarding other recognised degrees].
Youth Justice provides early intervention, statutory youth justice and detention services to ensure that young people are held accountable for their offending behaviour. We help support them to become responsible members of the community.
The role of the Team Leader is to work in consultation with the manager, Queensland Police Service Team Leader and Youth Justice Service Centre staff to oversee the day-to-day operations of Taskforce Guardian in supporting service centres. This position will supervise a multi-disciplinary team of youth justice staff to ensure the provision of high-quality court, casework and restorative justice services to young offenders, their families and victims, with the aim of reducing re-offending.

**The Team Leader key responsibilities are**:

- Provide supervision to staff in the use of evidenced based skills and processes associated with reductions in re-offending (including use of the case management framework, use of risk assessment tool, and providing targeted interventions including collaborative problem solving, pro-social modelling, cognitive techniques, and restorative justice).
- Allocate, prioritise and quality assure individual tasks in accordance with departmental procedures and statutory, financial, and administrative delegations.
- Participate in professional development and maintain knowledge of contemporary, evidence-based practice in work with young people who offend, including accreditation as required.
- Work closely with Queensland Police Service, Taskforce Guardian, team leader in coordinating joint deployments.
- Provide timely advice and assistance on complex matters to ensure the delivery of quality youth justice casework and restorative justice practices.
- Participate as a member of the Taskforce Guardian and relevant management teams and contribute to strategic and operational planning, reviews, reports and key decision-making.
- Develop collaborative, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate cooperation on case related matters and restorative justice processes.
- Assist in identifying trends and issues in client service delivery and evaluating client outcomes, including performance reporting, to ensure coordinated local service delivery.
- Provide ongoing recruitment, selection, professional development and culturally appropriate supervision and leadership to staff.
- Contribute to a departmental culture that ensures sensitive and effective communication with people from other cultures including people from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander backgrounds as well as an appreciation of cultural protocols and an awareness of the impacts of historical policies and practices

**Mandatory requirements**:

- Possession of a tertiary degree relevant to the role such as social work, behavioural science or social science, criminology or other recognised degree
- This role will require flexibility to be able to travel and work outside of hours whilst on deployment for up to 21 days at a time. Remuneration, or otherwise, for work performed outside the spread of hours will be determined in accordance with the applicable Award provisions.
- As travel is a requirement of this position, it is a requirement that the applicant hold a current 'C' Class Drivers licence.

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