Aboriginal Youth Justice Caseworker

Division: Northern CPPYJ- Location: St Marys, NSW, AU, 2760- Req ID: 56790**Aboriginal Youth Justice Caseworker -**

**Cobham Youth Justice Centre,**

**Youth Justice**
- **Ongoing Full-Time**:

- **Location: St Marys**:

- **Clerk Grade 6/7, Salary **($**96,164 - $104,994 **pa**), plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading**
- This position is open to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people only._

**About us
**Youth Justice is a dynamic organisation that supervises and cares for young people in the community and in detention centres in NSW. The division provides diversionary and community-based services, as well as custodial services in Youth Justice centres for young people on remand and on control order.

**Your role**

Provide front line services to young people at a Kempsey Youth Justice Community Office. This involves providing a range of quality externally and internally sourced services to detainees, youth justice conferencing clients, victims of crime and court mandated young people and their families.

**What you’ll do**

As part of Cobham Youth Justice Centre, you will
- Undertake case management activities that target appropriate areas of need/risk to the young person re-offending. This includes case planning, organising and facilitating case conferences and delivering offence focused intervention programs to young people.
- Work collaboratively with Youth Justice staff such as other J Caseworkers, Youth Officers and Psychologists, along with a range of government and non-government stakeholders to connect young people to services appropriate to their individual case plan and monitor the progress of the young person.
- Work closely with courts, parole authorities, review panels and legal professionals and provide clear and concise advice, briefings, reports and other formal written communication for internal and external stakeholders.

You will also
- Work as part of a multi-disciplined team that aims to reduce re-offending of young people, enhance their functioning and support reintegration into their families and the community.
- Work to influence change in the overrepresentation of Aboriginal young people in the justice system
- Build strong relationships with partner agencies to support and strengthen families and cultural connections
- Use cultural knowledge to help inform and shape service delivery
- Provide an Aboriginal perspective when working within your team and with other stakeholders

**What we’re looking for**
- Relevant tertiary qualifications (diploma or higher) in social work, welfare, psychology, criminology, education or related field or equivalent experience.
- Current Driver’s Licence
- Current NSW Working with Children Clearance for paid employment.
- It is an essential requirement of the role that successful applicants are fully vaccinated and able to provide acceptable proof of vaccination status.
- Aboriginality
- Documented verification of Aboriginality.

The Department will accept proof of Aboriginality confirming the following:

- You are an Aboriginal person of Aboriginal descent.
- You identify as being Aboriginal; and
- You are accepted as such by the community in which you live

An acceptable form of documented verification is a “Confirmation of Aboriginality” letter, provided to you by a local Aboriginal organisation that includes a common seal from that organisation.

Download the role description.

**We do work that really matters**

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

**Are you ready to join us?**

Click Apply, attach an up to date resume (maximum 5 pages) and a cover Letter (Maximum 3 pages) adressing the 2 targeted questions below with a breif outline on how you meet the requirements of the role.
- Targeted question 1 - Describe your understanding of our client group and specifically how your capabilities could assist with the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Young people
- Targeted question 2 - Give us an example of a project that best describes your organisational skills. What steps did you use to evaluate and improve outcomes?

**Applications close**:Monday October 31 at 11:59pm AEST.

**Got a question?**

**Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit**

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit our careers site.

*