Justice Officer - Offender Services

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

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We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?

• Utilise your Prison and Corrective Services expertise to provide support and advice to Corrections Victoria at the Metropolitan Remand Centre (MRC)
• An Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service
• VPS Grade 2: $58,539 - $75,175 plus superannuation.

About the Business Unit:

The Metropolitan Remand Centre is a 954-bed maximum-security facility for unsentenced male offenders located within the West Metropolitan Region, Department of Justice and Community Safety.

At the Metropolitan Remand Centre (MRC), each Justice Officer role specialises in one of five streams Records/Property, Human Resources, Stores/Canteen, Infrastructure/Technology/Finance and Administration. Over time, and with appropriate support and training, Justice Officers may be rotated between these streams to provide career enhancement opportunities to those staff, and operational flexibility to the prison.

About the Role:

In the role of Justice Officer - Offender Services, some of your duties will include:

• Working within a multidisciplinary team to contribute to the holistic management of prisoners at the MRC, including supporting community transition, monitoring, and encouraging program involvement and contributing to community referral for post release issues
• Under direction, providing individual assessments and referrals which are responsive to individual prisoner needs
• Under direction, facilitating group prisoner orientation sessions and information sessions.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

About You:

As our ideal candidate, you will possess:

• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience in or understanding of working within a Correctional environment
• The ability to consider the merits of new ideas and approaches whoile being willing to develop and apply new skills.

How to Apply:

Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include reference checks, national police checks and misconduct screening. Dependant on the role, other checks may