Address The Paralegal Officers key responsibilities are to:
* Provide administrative support to child safety officers and prepare court documents (eg. affidavits), in consultation with and under the direction of the child safety officer and/or senior team leader.
* Prepare court documents that demonstrate high level written communication skills, are well structured, objective, clear, concise and meet the required standards of both the department and the court.
* Competently access, understand and use information held in departmental information systems, in preparing affidavits and other court documents to support applications for child protection orders.
* Provide administrative support to senior team leaders in completing requests for information required for applications for child protection orders.
* Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with departmental legal officers to ensure that court documents adequately address legislative requirements.
* Work as part of a team to support child safety officers to meet rapidly changing priorities and ensure deadlines are met.
* Identify and promptly communicate key issues to the senior team leader that may impact on meeting designated tasks.
* Participate and contribute productively as a team member to form culturally appropriate, professional working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
* Participate and contribute to a culture of continuous learning, training and professional development to ensure practice knowledge and skills are contemporary and evidence-based.
* Contribute to continuous quality improvement strategies.
Applications to remain current for 12 months.
