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Deborah Omosebi

Summary

A compassionate and results driven human services professional with over seven years of experience supporting children, youth, and families in navigating life’s challenges. Skilled in working with individuals facing complex issues such as homelessness, disability, and mental health concerns. I contribute extra experience in helping people who are incarcerated by offering individualised case management and reintegration planning both while they are incarcerated and after they are released. My background spans child protection, therapeutic care, forensic case management, and family support enabling me to assess needs holistically, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive positive, lasting outcomes for individuals and their support networks.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Forensic Case Manager

ACSO
10.2023 - Current
  • Delivering pre- and post-release case management, collaborating with prisons, courts, and community corrections to support reintegration.
  • Working collaboratively with the participants Care Team (including Corrections, lawyers, Police, parole officers and relevant stakeholders), attending meetings and appointments as required.
  • Responding to phone calls and inquiries related to referrals, liaising with stakeholders, and providing treatment timeframes.
  • Providing assertive and intensive post-release support through in-reach, outreach, and transitional care.
  • Actively supporting clients with referrals to address specific risks and support needs to reduce reoffending.
  • Attending court to support participants as needed.
  • Completing transition and support plans with participants
  • Monitoring participants mental and physical wellbeing post-release to encourage ongoing program engagement.
  • Meeting contractual outcomes and KPI
  • Conducted thorough assessments of participant' situations, identifying issues, goals, and necessary interventions.
  • Completing comprehensive AOD assessments for participants wanting to access a variety of treatment services and modalities.


Intake and Assessment Officer


  • Completing intake assessments and developing transition plans within required timeframes.
  • Respond to intake calls and referrals in a timely and respectful manner
  • Provide relevant information and appropriate referral pathways (either internally or externally), including brief intervention, referrals and secondary consultations.

• Conduct MARAM-aligned risk assessments and develop safety plans

  • Handling calls to/from a range of different people including professionals, families and other members of the community.
  • Manage the referrals inbox and Central Intake Voicemail, register client referrals on Mastercare, upload clinical documents in a timely manner.
  • Draft letters, file documents, answer phone calls and email management.
  • Ensure the completeness of referrals and request additional information from referrers as needed.
  • Extraction of program and client data and producing tables, graphs and reports as directed to support managers with reporting requirements and analysis.


Intensive Therapeutic Case Worker - Family Service

Foundation care
08.2021 - 10.2023
  • Recruitment and intake of carers
  • Providing intensive supports that meet legislative requirements and ultimately achieve reunification and long-term stability for children in care
  • Providing services to children and young people with complex needs and their kinship or foster care family involved in statutory out of home care
  • Participating in assessment processes and ensuring carers and home environments are authorized/approved and remain under active review
  • Investigating Standards of Care and HARM Report against carers
  • Extensive experience in family violence trauma, women facing Domestic Violence, crisis response and family services
  • Tailored intensive case management support to address goals through a range of interventions
  • Having an active professional voice at meetings with Child Safety, QLD Health, QLD Education and relevant stakeholder to aid holistic approach for client support

Residential Youth House Manager

SCSS
04.2017 - 08.2021
  • Coordinate the renewal of approval assessment process and all administrative tasks related to distributing, receiving and lodging documents with Child Safety
  • Responding to complex after hours matters supporting our 30 residential units, foster carers and any other person needing support.
  • Experience working with young people who have or are experiencing self harming, mental health issues or substance dependency/misuse
  • Highly developed skills in providing direct care and undertaking in person risk assessment and responding to and managing complex, high risk behaviour of children and young people
  • Extensive experience in the application of relevant theoretical approaches that underpin practice for working with vulnerable children, young people and families.
  • House Management tasks included On Call / After-Hours duties, Recruitment and Rostering of Youth Workers
  • Efficient and comprehensive onboarding, induction and training of new staff
  • Providing culturally safe environment for First Nation Young Person
  • Analyzing and advocating for NDIS funds where applicable
  • Using a person-centred approach, planning, developing and coordinate services for NDIS clients
  • Facilitation of team meetings and workers supervision
  • After Hour On Call components
  • Stakeholder meetings to discuss a young person safety plan, case plans and reunification


Education

Masters -

Human Services Major Child, Youth & Family

Post Graduate Certificate -

Human Services

Diploma -

Community Services

Certificate IV -

Community Service

Skills

  • Collaborating & Teamwork
  • Drive and commitment
  • Advocacy and Initiative
  • Cultural Awareness

  • Time Management
  • Resilience
  • Effective Communication within Team and Stakeholder

Timeline

Forensic Case Manager

ACSO
10.2023 - Current

Intensive Therapeutic Case Worker - Family Service

Foundation care
08.2021 - 10.2023

Residential Youth House Manager

SCSS
04.2017 - 08.2021

Masters -

Human Services Major Child, Youth & Family

Post Graduate Certificate -

Human Services

Diploma -

Community Services

Certificate IV -

Community Service
Deborah Omosebi