Principal Advisor Assessment and Planning Assurance

Queensland Corrective Services; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Queensland Corrective Services in Brisbane seeks an experienced Principal Adviser to coordinate and manage assessment and planning assurance activities and ensure robust development and monitoring of risk/need assessments and case management practices.

Reporting to the Manager, Assessment and Planning Assurance, you will work in a small collaborative team and apply governance and evidence-based approaches across offender management and the criminal justice system.

Qualifications

• Experience in offender assessment and case management.
• Ability to analyse information from multiple sources and provide recommendations.
• Strong governance, assurance and policy interpretation capabilities.
• Demonstrated stakeholder engagement across complex groups.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage a broad range of assessment and planning assurance activities.
• Develop, monitor and maintain risk/need assessments and case management practices.
• Apply whole-of-system thinking within a governance framework.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders and ensure service delivery alignment.

Skills

Offender assessment expertise

Case management

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical problem solving

Governance and assurance

Education

Tertiary qualification in psychology, behavioural science or social sciences (desirable)

Job description

Principal Advisor Assessment and Planning Assurance

Queensland Corrective Services – Brisbane QLD

Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) is seeking an experienced and highly capable Principal Adviser to join our multi-disciplinary Assessment and Planning Assurance team.

In this role, you will be responsible for co-ordinating and managing a broad range of assessment and planning assurance activities and ensuring successful development, monitoring and maintenance of risk/need assessments and case management planning practices (aligned to the units’ functions).

Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) is seeking an experienced and highly capable Principal Adviser to join our multi-disciplinary Assessment and Planning Assurance team.

About the Role:

In this role you will be responsible for co-ordinating and managing a broad range of critical assessment and planning assurance activities and ensuring successful development, monitoring and maintenance of E2E assessment and case management practices as set out in the Assessment and Planning Assurance unit's Service Delivery Model and Service Catalogue.

Reporting to the Manager, Assessment and Planning Assurance, you will work as part of a small collaborative team.

There are no mandatory qualifications for this position, however a tertiary qualification in psychology, behavioural science or social sciences would be highly regarded.

The most suitable applicant will demonstrate their applied knowledge, skills and experiences against these essential role requirements of the Individual Contributor leadership stream:

• Strong understanding and expertise in offender assessment, case management and rehabilitation pathways, including ability to apply whole of system thinking and best practice within a governance lens.
• Demonstrated high-level problem solving and analysis skills for resolving risks/issues and ability to initiate and co-ordinate solutions within a criminal justice environment.
• High level skills in critically analysing offender assessment and case management practice, with the ability to identify and manage patterns and trends to resolution.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to effectively navigate and generate positive engagement within complex specialist, strategic and operational stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated ability to collate, gather and analyse large volumes of information from multiple sources and utilise insights to provide recommendations, develop strategies and provide advice as it relates to assessment and case management.
• Strong experience in the application of governance and operational assurance strategies and frameworks, particularly related to offender management and/or the criminal justice system.
• Demonstrates strong governance experience including ability to utilise assurance, monitoring, policy and legislation, processes, and resources.
• Positive workplace behaviours with the ability to embrace change, display optimism and work within scope of influence in the face of complexity and ambiguity.