Job description:
The Statewide Manager – Care and Coordination Services leads the delivery of integrated, therapeutic, and safe care coordination services across Tasmania. This role is responsible for statewide oversight of adoption and permanency services, placement matching, and case management support to carers. It ensures that all forms of family-based foster care, kinship care and residential care are delivered and coordinated to uphold the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people, and supports the implementation of a trauma-informed, relationship-centred model of care.
The role contributes to the strategic redesign of care services in alignment with the Commission of Inquiry recommendations and the future model of care, ensuring readiness for service transformation, including the outsourcing of case management for foster carers to non-government service providers, and the provision of a diverse range of care options for children and young people in care.