Activities Officer

Activities Officer - Full Time - Permanent – Villawood Immigration Detention Centre

$70,000 - $80,000 + Super

• Work in a role where you’ll ‘make a difference’, with no two days the same.
• Play an integral role within a tight-knit Welfare and Engagement Team.
• Be part of an amazing culture, based on the values of trust, care, innovation and pride.

About us - Serco & Proud

At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, but everyone has a vital role to play from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000+ globally and 14,000+ in Asia Pacific responsible for delivering essential public services in areas including defence, justice, immigration, healthcare, facilities management & citizen services. To learn more please visit www.serco.com/aspac

About the Opportunity

As An Activities Officer, you will actively contribute to running the structured and unstructured programs for adults and ensure excellent levels of service in the assigned responsibilities. This is a key role in helping to maintain a positive and healthy community.

This is an amazing opportunity to ‘Start with a job and stay for a career’ with extensive employment & growth opportunities across Serco’s many contracts. At Serco we are committed to growing our team members with a large focus on professional development.

What you’ll be doing

• Managing and conducting programs and activities for detainees. This could be recreational, educational, life skills and or leisure activities, depending on your skill set and the detainees needs.
• Communicating with staff and detainees regarding activities to make sure detainees can access the activities of their choice efficiently.
• Conducting a needs analysis and then producing specific programs based on needs of the class.

About you – Your ideal skills and experience:

• Experience in conducting structured and unstructured programs for adults.

• Hold and maintain HLTAID009 Provide CPR and HLTAID011 Provide First Aid certificates with at least 6 months currency on the certificate.
• Maintain a current Working with Children certificate in accordance with the relevant state or territory child protection legislation (as required).
• Experience in an associated discipline such as sports and recreation, social/community work and/or learning and development.
• Experience in planning appropriate resourcing for activities.

This is a position of trust and responsibility and to support this we will conduct a thorough probity assessment, which includes a Federal police check as an essential selection component for this role.

Serco requires employees in this role to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people. Please consider this requirement when submitting your application.

Why Join Us

• You’d be joining a company that delivers essential public services that make a difference in the communities in which we live
• You’ll get to make an impact: Enjoy being part of a driven team with a collaborative culture that values decision-makers & action.
• We Invest in you: Accelerate your career through our learning & development opportunities – think skills based training, defined career pathways & fantastic internal mobility opportunities across the group!

If you’re inspired to make a positive difference, apply now.

For any additional questions, or to learn more, please contact me – Jacob Varnish – TA Business Partner – +61 8 8432 2571

Serco’s values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride underpin everything we do. We are curious, creative and collaborative. Our people matter and make a difference every day.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans and people with disability. By joining Serco you will have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging