Paralegal Officer

3 weeks ago


Sunshine Coast, Australia Child Safety, Seniors and Disabilities Full time

**The Paralegal Officer key responsibilities are**:

- 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.
- 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.
- Follow guidelines in relation to human resources, records management, finance, asset, travel and administrative policies and procedures.
- Administer financial processes including procurement, ordering, payments of accounts, petty cash, Carepay and monthly monitoring and reconciliation in accordance with current legislative and departmental accounting practices.
- Performs ad hoc duties consistent with the responsibilities of the role as directed by the line manager or their delegate.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.


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