Job description
To ensure a high level of community safety through the delivery of approved general and / or sexual offending programs to those offenders assessed as requiring offender intervention programs.
In this role you will:
* Participate in planning activities to ensure offenders have timely access to appropriate programs and interventions
* Prepare offenders for offender intervention programs
* Ensure offender program activities are consistent with evidence-based practice
* Deliver offender intervention programs in accordance with operational plans
* Provide advice to relevant officers regarding offender program suitability and/or other interventions
* Monitor progress of offenders during programs and related activities and report on progress
* Comply with program management procedures, standards and guidelines
* Identify and respond appropriately to risks arising from offender management
* Maintain own level of knowledge of contemporary offender programs research and practices, and legislation, policy and procedures in relation to offender management
* Participate in case management activities as required for offenders assessed as requiring program participation
* Provide timely information to relevant sites in relation to each offender's participation in programs for case management
* Monitor offender management files and programs to ensure continuity and consistency
* Ensure records and information data for the Integrated Offender Management system (IOMS) are accurate and current
* Administer appropriate assessments to offenders
* Analyse assessment results and record information
* Contribute to case management and sentence management activities for offenders
* Ensure records and information data for the Integrated Offender Management system (IOMS) and the Offender Programs Assessment Service (OPAS) are accurate and current
* Ensure maintenance, accuracy and appropriateness of records and intervention reports, program data for appropriate authorities
* Ensure the timely provision of advice to courts, boards and other agencies regarding offenders
* Provide program impact reports to courts and parole boards for participants
* Promote value of offender programs to relevant agencies and support services
* Develop productive relationships with service providers and the community generally to enhance the community's regard for offender programs
Applications to remain current for 12 months.