• Are you interested in full time, part time or casual employment?
• Looking for a flexible role that’s challenging yet rewarding?
• Do you believe in second chances and supporting forensic clients to integrate back into the community?

We are seeking expressions of interest for our Forensic Case Worker role in our CREST program delivered in Queensland. We are interested to hear from people that would like to work either full time, part time or casually in the future. We are flexible about how part time hours are worked. Part time or casual may suit someone who is studying or working around their child's school drop off or pick up.

A little bit about ACSO

The Australian Community Support Organisation (ACSO) is a dynamic, values driven NFP, focused on partnering with government and the community to co-design services that create real social change. We’re an organisation with a bold vision to create a safe and inclusive community freed of crime and prisons. It’s our goal to reduce re-offending, and our mission is to help people transition from prison, assist them in the community, stop them from re-offending, and intervene to divert others from committing crime.

The program and the role

Our CREST program aims to support the transition of individuals being released from prison and addresses the individual and complex transitional needs of each participant through a responsive, tailored and flexible support approach.

Forensic Case Workers will be responsible for delivering pre- and post- release support to their allocated participants and will work intensively with community corrections to successfully reintegrate participants. The Forensic Case Worker will be responsible for record keeping (including data entry and case-noting) and providing assertive outreach and interventions to at-risk and vulnerable cohorts, typically face-to-face and in settings and environments that are comfortable for the participant. This role works in prisons and either from our Brisbane, Beenleigh or Ipswich office.

What we’re looking for?

• Preferably a diploma qualification in a relevant discipline, and/or at least 2 years’ equivalent experience
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills with assertiveness and confidence working with people who demonstrate challenging behaviours
• Experience developing support plans and goal attainment strategies
• Ability to build positive relationships and communicate with people of diverse backgrounds and abilities
• Knowledge and competency in casework practices
• Demonstrated capacity to work flexibly, possess the ability to manage competing demands, and able to effectively set boundaries and limits where required
• An extensive background working with Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people will be highly regarded

What ACSO can offer you

• Flexibility
• A supportive and collaborative team and leaders
• A challenging yet rewarding position
• Learning opportunities and career development
• $62,500 full time base salary + superannuation (hourly rate if casual) + salary packaging
• Annual leave loading - for full time or part time employees
• Great NFP salary packaging options

ACSO embraces diversity within its workforce and as such encourages applications from appropriately qualified and skilled people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage. ACSO acknowledges the traditional Aboriginal owners of country throughout Victoria and pays respect to them, their culture and their Elders, past, present and future.