General Manager, Dame Phyllis Frost Centre

2 weeks ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Corrections Victoria Full time
Bring collaborative team leadership to ensure community safety

  • Welfare and safety focus with a human rights lens
  • Develop trauma informed practice models


The Department of Justice and Community Safety (the department) is seeking a General Manager to provide a critical role within Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.

About the Business Unit
The Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (DPFC) is a 568-bed maximum-security facility for female offenders located in Ravenhall.

Through delivering correctional services that are gender responsive and consistent with Trauma Informed Practice, the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (DPFC) plays a critical role in supporting women transition back into the community at the completion of their sentence.

DPFC recognises that women's pathways to offending are different to men and that women engaged in the criminal justice system often have a history of complex trauma.

DPFC policies and procedures are gender responsive and based on Trauma Informed Practice principles.
About the Role

The General Manager of DPFC is responsible for the creation of an environment that supports rehabilitation, a good order and safety of the prison and for creating and sustaining a workforce culture built on solid values, professional excellence, and teamwork.

The General Manager is responsible for creating a safe, supportive and inclusive culture and delivering a structured day in which prisoners are constructively engaged and challenged through effective case management practices to address their individual risks and needs in order to promote the best prospects of rehabilitation.

Reporting to the Assistant Commissioner, Custodial Operations, the General Manager leads and manages the delivery of correctional services at the prison to achieve the safe custody, welfare and rehabilitation of prisoners in accordance with relevant policies and standards.

This includes building and maintaining partnerships with key service partners including health service providers, unions, rehabilitation services, community corrections and reintegration and transition supports to ensure an integrated approach to meeting the welfare and rehabilitation needs of prisoners.

The General Manager is responsible for driving the prison towards achieving its vision and direction in line with legislation and through a human rights lens, identifying and responding to emerging strategic issues and developing and implementing business plans.

Day to day, the general manager will be leading staff at the prison, responding to incidents and implementing changes through the strategic projects.

The General Manager will role model ethical leadership to create an organisational culture that enables others to perform at their best and achieve outcomes for the organisation.

They will also be responsible for the successful transition of a new public health provider and a new health services model into the facility.


In addition, to be successful in this role you will bring:

  • Operational experience gained in prisons, social welfare, clinical and other relevant complex human services operational environments, noting that prior custodial experience isn't mandatory;
  • Strong leadership and communication skills to ensure staff development and engagement;
  • The ability to manage the prison financial budget against annual targets as well as forecast budget risks, and implement resource control measures in line with a culture of financial responsibility and improvement within the prison management team;
  • Strong external relationship management;
  • Ability to act in a timely and effective manner in managing day to day incidents/ emergency situations in accordance with the legislation through a human rights lens.
The Organisation

  • Corrections Victoria operates Victoria's adult prison system, seeking to provide safe and secure
- environments that deliver programs and services supporting prisoner rehabilitation. Corrections

  • Victoria runs 11 public prisons, one transition centre, and oversees three privately operated prisons. Corrections Victoria aims to contribute to community safety by providing best practice interventions that aim to reduce the risk of reoffending, including case management informed by sound risk assessment, offence specific and offence related programs, and transition and reintegration supports.
Prerequisites

  • Preemployment Security Check (Declaration Form);
  • National Police Record and Fingerprints Check and International Police Clearance (if applicable);
  • VicRoads Information Check;
  • Drivers Licence Check(s) (if applicable).
  • 3 doses of an approved COVID vaccine

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