Court and Assessment Prosecutions Officer

4 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia Department of Justice and Community Safety Full time

Utilise your legal expertise to provide support and advice to the Justice Services branch in the North West Metropolitan area
- An Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service
- CCP3 73,842 - $89,661 plus superannuation.

**About the Business Unit**:
**About the Role**:
**Some of your duties will include**:

- Providing timely, high quality, evidence-based advice to stakeholders (including the judiciary involved in the sentencing process) regarding an assessment of an offender's risk to community safety and their capacity to undertake a court order
- Undertaking an effective assessment of an offender's risk to community safety (and their capacity to undertake a court order) through the evaluation of factors that relate to an individual's offending behaviour. Provide advice and recommendations to the court for individual interventions to address this behaviour
- Effectively managing offenders exhibiting challenging behaviours and reporting matters as required to senior staff in a timely manner.

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

**About You**:
**To be successful in this role, you will have**:

- Experience and/or knowledge of court processes, prosecutions or related areas.
- Demonstrated ability to provide human services in needs assessment and development of interventions.
- Resolves issues through deep understanding or interpretation of existing guidelines. Where guidelines are not available, analyses ideas available and takes action through self, or in consultation with others to resolve problems. If required, determine additional information needed to make informed decisions. Applies critical thinking and problem solving concepts in the right context.

**Qualifications**:

- A relevant qualification in social work or related law/human services discipline (preferred) or criminal justice, criminology (desirable) with work experience in a court advice, assessments or prosecutions related field (desirable).
- Staff in these positions will be required to undertake and complete the internal Court Advice and Prosecutions training

**How to Apply**:
**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
**CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT**:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.



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