• 1 x Full Time
• Fixed Term
• Nowra

The Relationship Intervention Worker forms part of the Joint Support Program (JSP), which aims to assist juvenile offenders engaged in the juvenile justice system, to overcome offending behaviour and re-integrate into the Community. The Joint Support Program also aims at assist young people in establishing a healthy pro-social lifestyle and prevent reoffending.

APPLICATIONS CLOSE:
24 November 2018

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION 

The Relationship Intervention Worker provides a short-term intervention, which focuses on strategies to improve relationships, reduce conflict, mediate solutions and encourage collaborative problem solving through a mixture of individual and/or group interventions. Where possible the service will work with young people and the significant people in their lives where there are relationship difficulties and conflict.

The Relationship Intervention Worker can provide assistance to young people to develop and implement strategies to deal with situations where the significant people cannot or don’t want to be involved. This service may be provided when young people are leaving custody to encourage a smooth transition back to their families, carers and community.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Conduct initial risk assessments of clients and their families with Juvenile Justice Officers to ensure it is safe to proceed with the relationship intervention and support.
• Respond to referrals from Department of Juvenile Justice.
• Conduct and record review and exit meetings at 6 week and 12 week intervals
• Engaging with families to develop and maintain supportive and empowering relationships founded on mutual respect, trust and the strengths of families using the principal of participant empowerment whereby families take responsibility for their issues and work on addressing them.
• Provide clients and their families with access to counselling and support necessary to assist in the restoration of healthy relationships, reduce conflict, mediate solutions and encourage collaborative problem solving.
• Identify and develop the intervention structure to ensure participant issues are solvable and relevant to the young person’s offending behaviour, as well as undertaking family intervention using pro-social modelling and collaborative problem solving.
• Implement relevant support models which include setting ground rules, identifying issues the family would like to change, explore issues in detail and prioritise, develop goals and identify strategies to achieve agreed goals.
• Conduct ongoing need assessments of families to determine the need for ongoing counselling services to ensure positive changes are sustained.
• Provide unscheduled support to families in times of crisis, including over the phone support.
• Coordinate and support the exit of clients and their families from the program, including preparing post case summaries, questionnaires and support letters.
• Participate in the coordination of interagency meetings, steering committees and other forums in order to share information, best practice and highlight the needs of families and adolescents in the community.
• Comply with all SCMSAC Policies and Procedures.
• Other duties as reasonably directed by the CEO, Senior Manager or Supervisor.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL VACANCIES

Applications must address the key competencies (selection criteria):  For an Information Package containing position description, selection criteria and an employment application, please download above or contact Human Resources via email hr@southcoastams.org.au or call 02 4448 0200.

Preferred applicants will also be required to undergo a National Police Check and obtain a new paid employee Working with Children Check (as required by the Act) prior to appointment with South Coast Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation.

Salary will be in accordance with the South Coast Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation Enterprise Agreement 2012 – 2015.