Caseworker

6 days ago


Brisbane, Australia Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs Full time

**The Caseworker key responsibilities are**:

- Work effectively within a statutory environment and undertake direct interaction within a secure youth detention environment with a caseload of complex high risk young offenders. This will include serious and high-profile cases. This will involve dynamic security assessments and regular contact with young people in sections ensuring adherence to the security and safety of the Centre. Deliver casework services to young people in youth detention to reduce reoffending using culturally appropriate, collaborative and evidence-based assessment and intervention skills, processes and programs including restorative practice principles. Identify individual case needs, appropriate programs and services to address those needs and ongoing management of cases to ensure young people have maximum opportunities to address their offending behaviour. Undertake record keeping and information management tasks to ensure accountability. Actively participate in a range of continuing professional development activities to continuously improve your ability to contribute to organisational goals, including training, supervision, and relevant accreditation and support the team leader with induction, mentoring/coaching and training of new caseworkers. Act as a point of contact and work collaboratively as part of a team with range of internal and external stakeholders for the purposes of assessment, case planning and transition. Prepare complex written reports, detailed risk assessments and other relevant documentation for high-risk young people. Complete comprehensive suicide risk assessments and actively participate in the suicide risk assessment process on centre for young people. Co-ordinate and manage all aspects of young person's case plan whilst in custody and be the point of contact for case planning and transition anddevelopment of an individualised case plan for each young person. This will include active involvement in regular stakeholder meetings and various high risk offender panels.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.


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