Disability Support Worker

About This Role

• Utilise your support and coordination expertise to provide support and advice to Corrections Victoria branch
• Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service
• VPS Grade VPS3: $81,496 - $98,955 plus superannuation.

Corrections Victoria is part of the Department of Justice and Community Safety and is responsible for the operation of Victoria's adult corrections system, public and privately operated prisons, and a transitional centre. It ensures that people held in prison are safely and securely contained and aims to rehabilitate people by addressing the underlying causes of offending behaviour.

Western Plains Correctional Centre (Western Plains) is a modern, maximum-security prison focussed on rehabilitation, housing up to 1248 people in custody. Western Plains features multi-purpose infrastructure which is adaptable to the evolving needs of Corrections Victoria and the people in our care. Modern amenities include medical wards, a cultural centre, and vocational training facilities.

About The Role

The Disability Support Worker works within a multidisciplinary team responsible for providing a holistic range of therapeutic treatment, support and rehabilitation based on the needs of people in our care with disabilities and complex needs. The Disability Support Worker provides crucial disability support knowledge to the broader team and relevant stakeholders and utilises an understanding of relevant disability support services both within the criminal justice system and the community to implement and monitor support plans. In addition, they will utilise an understanding of disability needs to support service users to access relevant disability support services, including but not limited to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), implement high level disability case co-ordination and provide advocacy and advice in relation to disability needs to a range of internal and external stakeholders.

Some Of Your Duties Will Include

• Under general direction, implementing and monitoring a range of support plans, with oversight from senior staff, using knowledge of client need, preferences and interests.
• Managing a dynamic caseload of people in our care presenting with confirmed or suspected cognitive impairments who have a range of disability associated needs, including participation in local case management practices.
• Co-ordinating triage processes, action any relevant referrals to internal and external services and support service users to access relevant services both in the community and within prison settings.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

About You

As an ideal candidate, you will possess:

• Demonstrated experience working with and implementing supports for people who demonstrate cognitive impairments.
• Experience in providing case coordination across a number of internal and external stakeholders for vulnerable cohorts who display disability and complex needs.
• An understanding of the challenges involved in working within a forensic environment.
• Demonstrated experience working within the field of disability and/or the criminal justice system.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification or experience in the field of allied health is highly desirable for this role.
• Considerable experience within the Disability sector is desirable.
• Experience working with forensic and/or correctional environments is highly desirable.
• A current Victorian driver's licence is required for this role.

How To Apply

Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include national police checks and misconduct screening.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.

Important Information

CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.