• A now established program that has been making a great impact in the west
• 2 shifts 3pm - 11pm, no weekends (outreach)|4 shifts 10am - 6pm (office based)
• A leadership role|guiding & supporting a team of 3|part time hours 22.8 hrs p/w

DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Qualifications in social work, community services or youth work.
• Solid and demonstrated knowledge and experience engagement with young people.
• Understanding trauma, family dynamics, offending behaviour, victimisation, high risk behaviours and the challenges faced by young people today.
• Knowledge of the supports available to young people to help support them in the long term.
• Prior case management, administrative, communication, leadership, management and collaboration skills.

As a “front line leadership role” day to day duties will involve 3 main areas of practice, operational shifts, non-operational shifts and program leadership.
Operational shifts involve working from 3.00pm to 11.00pm within the Caroline Springs police station itself.
When Victoria Police members attend calls to young people, the aim of the role is to attend alongside collaboratively and provide engagement. The idea is to help engage with a more youth focused approach, to help de-escalate situations and provide better engagement. This can allow for proper assessment, working out what the young people might need in terms of wider support and in cases where young people are new to police, intervening early to reduce the likelihood of future contact with the justice system.
Non-Operational Shifts involve working from 10.00am to 6.00pm from home or the Sunshine office and are the shifts where the aim is to undertake short term case management, assessments and work through referrals to appropriate services that might help the young people. This is also time to work through admin, team meetings and collaborate, debrief and provide supervision to your team of 3.
Program leadership involves supporting the 3 practitioners that report to this role. Providing supervision, training and onboarding of new staff, attending operational meetings with Victoria Police, as well as supporting with the overall operational oversight and practice of the program.