Correctional Officer

What's in it for you?

• Multiple full-time positions available
• Work only 165 days a year on our current rosters
• Long weekend every second weekend
• Earn circa $70,000 in your first year
• Overtime available
• Annual wage increments
• 5 weeks annual leave
• Paid on the job training (Cert III & Cert IV)
• Uniforms and meals provided
• Share2Care ten (10) weeks of paid parental leave to eligible employees (12 weeks from 1/7/24)
• Access to 24/7 Safety, Medical and Mental Health Care via the Sonder (including family members)
• Generous Employee Referral Program
• Flexible salary packaging available

About You

If you've got the heart, integrity, and drive to make a difference, you're our ideal candidate.

• No experience? No worries. We'll train you from day 1, ensuring you're supported for journey ahead.

We are looking for people who are:

• Committed to making a difference in other people's lives
• Good communicators
• Motivated to achieve positive outcomes
• Energetic, resilient, and ready to find a job to kick start a career

If you would like to find out more before applying, please feel free to contact the team on , we would love to hear from you.

About the Role

You'll work in a team environment to ensure and maintain the ongoing safety of inmates, staff, and visitors.

The role of a Correctional Officer is multi-faceted, aimed at transforming lives and the wider community. This includes;

• Providing safe and secure custody to those entrusted into our care, protecting the community, and reducing re-offending.
• Supervision of individuals and developing positive relationships, role modelling, mentorship
• Supporting inmates' behavioural change toward a crime-free life.

Where can this new career take you

• Immediate Action Team member
• Dog Handler
• Intelligence Analyst
• Control Room Operator
• Trade Instructor
• Non-custodial roles in Admin or Case Management

Join Us

You'd be joining a company that delivers essential public services (in partnership with governments) that impact a better future for communities, & those in our care.

You'll get to have an impact on how we do things: 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​

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.