Social Services Regulator
The Social Services Regulator (SSR) is an independent statutory authority that exists to safeguard the rights of children and young people as well as people who use social services in Victoria.
The SSR regulates the Social Services Standards, the Child Safe Standards (for organisations without a sector specific co-regulator as well as the social services sector), and also administers the Worker and Carer Exclusion Scheme (WCES), Reportable Conduct Scheme (RCS) and Working with Children Check (WWCC) scheme and NDIS Worker Screening Check.
The Social Services Regulator takes an integrated and intelligence driven approach to identifying, preventing and excluding unsafe people from working with children and young people, as well as ensuring organisations that work with children and young people keep children safe from abuse and harm by meeting the Child Safe Standards.
As a co-regulator of the Child Safe Standards, the Social Services Regulator works with other co-regulators of the Child Safe Standards including the Department of Health, Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA), Victorian Early Childhood Regulation Authority (VECRA), and Workforce Inspectorate Victoria to keep children safe from harm and abuse.
THE ROLE
Reporting to the Director, Internal Review, the Principal Advisor will ensure the SSR appropriately considers information in the SSR's possession from a child safety perspective (or other related discipline). This senior-level role will be instrumental in engaging with the expert panel as required from time to time as well as ensuring internal review applications are determined in a way that is procedurally fair, robust and timely. This will require the Principal Advisor to utilise their child safety expertise and work closely with the Principal Legal Counsel. The Principal Advisor will also support the development of systems and processes that underpin internal reviews and contribute to the learning and development of other areas of SSR involved in decision-making.
ACCOUNTABILITIES INCLUDE
Day-to-day your responsibilities will include:
- Provide authoritative and timely advice on complex internal review matters, applying legislative, procedural fairness and child safety principles to support independent, risk-informed and defensible review outcomes, including identifying safeguarding concerns, behaviours or patterns where relevant.
- Conduct the internal review of applications received by the SSR from time to time, including through the preparation and delivery of high-quality, evidence-based briefs, draft statements of reasons and recommendations, critically analysing complex information from a variety of sources to present clear, well-reasoned advice to decision-makers.
- Form part of the leadership team within the Internal Review team to enable staff to collect, review and categorise records and information relevant to internal review applications, in accordance with relevant legislative requirements, policy and organisational procedures.
For more details, please open the position description.
HOW TO APPLY
Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.
Applicants are required to submit a CV and Cover Letter (max 2 pages) outlining their suitability to the role in line with the Key Selection Criteria.
Applicants must be an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident or hold a valid work permit or visa. Work eligibility will be checked as part of the recruitment process.
Preferred candidates will be required to complete pre-employment screening, including a national police check and misconduct screening.
For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please contact SSR HR at [email protected].
Please apply to submit your interest in this position.