About This Role
This Caseworker role focuses on supporting and case managing young people involved in youth justice interventions who are affected by domestic and family violence, whether as victims, perpetrators, or through exposure. The role involves collaborative work within a High-Risk Team, coordinating service delivery, and helping to establish integrated responses and protocols for Youth Justice Service Centres in the Brisbane and Moreton Bay Region.
Responsibilities
- Deliver best practice statutory casework services to young people and contribute to the development of safety plans using sound assessment and intervention skills
- Deliver integrated and culturally appropriate services, including engaging with families, community organisations, and other key stakeholders, in accordance with legislative, policy, and procedural requirements
- Design, implement, and review youth justice responses to domestic and family violence
- Strengthen protocols, tools, and referral pathways with relevant agencies to ensure individuals experiencing domestic and family violence can easily access appropriate support and assistance
- Develop reporting systems to monitor and evaluate the Domestic and Family Violence Integrated Response
- Promote use of the domestic and family violence common assessment tool to refer young people to the High-Risk Team
- Commit to actions, prioritise matters, and arrange for allocation of resources to ensure a rapid response to high-risk cases
- Prepare and present information and evidence to the Children's Court, including conducting pre and post court interviews
- Liaise with key court stakeholders and prepare pre-sentence reports, affidavits, and other documentation as required
- Establish partnerships and consult with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and service providers in a number of local areas, to achieve quality casework outcomes
- Undertake a range of information management and reporting tasks including data entry, maintenance of case records, and preparation of performance and trend reports
- Ensure all confidential information shared with partner agencies is in accordance with established protocols and legislation
- Actively participate in training and professional development activities to develop, maintain, and enhance knowledge and competencies
- Ensure that service delivery is based on contemporary, evidence-based, best practice principles and is consistent with current practice trends and departmental objectives
- Share knowledge with the youth justice team to raise awareness of domestic and family violence as it relates to youth justice clients and integrate a domestic and family violence framework for practice
- Actively participate in and contribute to the good governance and objectives of the directorate and department
