AddressCompany description:
Department of Communities and Justice
Job description:
Community Corrections OfficerClerk Grade 5/7
Silverwater Parole Unit
Location:Silverwater Parole Unit
Employment Type: Ongoing Permanent - Full Time: Monday - Friday + Flex Time
Salary: $93, 295 -$109,194 pa + Superannuation - Annual Leave Loading
Your role
As a Community Corrections Officer you will sit in a Correctional Centre within the Silverwater Complex and will be required to work across all centres on-site. Whilst you will be subject to Correctional Centre Policy and Procedures (including no mobile phones, biometric entry/exit, random drug and alcohol testing, dress code and restrictions on items being bought into the centre), you will benefit from having direct access to Inmates, stakeholders, and services.
You will embed evidence-based practices across all areas of your work and target responses to the areas that will allow the greatest impacts to be made with the Inmates you are working with.
What you'll do
We are looking for people who are prepared to do their very best in line with our values and behaviours with a strong focus on community safety. You will be joining a high functioning and diverse team who value working together as a team and provide support to each other in a highly demanding and rapidly changing environment.
What we're looking for
As our ideal candidate, you will have:
- High level verbal and written communication skills, including interviewing skills.
- High level negotiation, conflict resolution and analytical skills
- Experience or knowledge of court processes, prosecutions, or related areas
- An ability to provide human services in needs assessment and development of interventions.
- Capability to provide evidence-based advice and recommendations to the court that maximise offender responsiveness to interventions.
- An ability to manage offenders exhibiting challenging behaviours and escalate as required.
- Ability to managing competing priorities and work within strict timeframes.
Benefits of working at the Parole Unit:
- Monthly offsite training and development days
- Onsite parking
- Managing a case load of high-risk offenders and serious sex and/or serious violent offenders
- Exposure working with offenders with complex needs including serious behaviour and/or mental health issues.
- Working with a diverse range of stakeholders including Serious Offenders Review Council (SORC), Justice Health (JH), Service and Programs, Case Management, Psychologists, DCJ Housing, Police, NGO's, NDIS, Child Protection Unit, and many more
- Providing advice to releasing authorities including State Parole Authority, Attorney Generals.
About Us
Silverwater Parole Unit is a large Community Corrections office within the Metropolitan West District it oversees the releases of inmates over four correctional centres and one transitional centre. There are parole offices at four of the five centres. These centres vary in levels of security and type of inmates housed.
For more information regarding our Silverwater Parole unit and offices click here
Successful candidates will be mandated to undertake a four-week, in-person training program at our Brush Farm Academy as an integral component of the Certificate IV in Correctional Practice curriculum.
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We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply - you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.
We do work that really matters
Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It's work that really matters.
Apply now and join Australia's top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!
Are you ready to join us?
Click apply, attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).
Applications close - 30/06/2024 at 11:00pm AEST.
Got a question?
For more information about the role or what it's like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Kerrie Chisolm on 02 9289-5***/0437 985 *** or at ***************@justice.nsw.gov.au
If you've got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Kaushik Gounder on 0472 783 *** or via ***************@dcj.nsw.gov.au
Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.
Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit
We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.
To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.
Other Information
A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.
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