Community Work Officer

3 weeks ago

Melbourne, Australia Department of Justice and Community Safety Full time

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / Ongoing

Organisation: Department of Justice and Community Safety

**Salary**: $73,842 - $81,753

Occupation: Prison and Corrective Services

Reference: DOJ/1048MAR23

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.

The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers

We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?
- **Full time, ongoing position based in Melbourne's South-East**:

- **Promote offender rehabilitation through meaningful community work**:

- **Be part of a highly motivated and supportive team who take pride in their work**

**About us**

Corrections Victoria's purpose is to deliver an effective corrections system for a safe community. Community Correctional Services (CCS), is overseen by Corrections Victoria, a division of the Department of Justice and Community Safety. CCS is responsible for the management and supervision of prisoners on parole, clients under post sentence supervision and court orders.

CCS is currently experiencing rapid growth in the offender population. In response to this, Corrections Victoria will embed evidence based practice across all areas of our work and target responses to the areas that will allow the greatest impacts to be made. This approach will contribute to a safer community and strengthen CCS for the future.

**About the role**

As the Community Work Officer, you will be responsible for providing community work opportunities and contracts to enable offenders to complete their community work hours and orders successfully. You will administer relevant community work practices including monitoring attendance and compliance with requirements at community work placements, and contracting offenders to appropriate local community work sites.

You will build and maintain effective relationships with Community Work Supervisors (field staff), community work partners and other relevant stakeholders, produce reports and standard documentation in line with procedural guidelines and undertake on-site risk assessments or other occupational health and safety processes as required.

The Community Work Officer will be required to work Tuesday through to Saturday (non-negotiable) and will be primarily based at Dandenong although may be required to work in other locations across the South East Metropolitan region as required. Penalty rates will be paid for work performed on weekends.

**To be successful in this role you will**:

- strive for service excellence, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- be able to self-manage, using available information to make sound, timely and well informed decisions
- be flexible and adaptable to change
- have computer proficiency, including in the use of the Microsoft Office suite, electronic document management systems and internal databases.

Relevant experience in a related community services, not for profit or community development field is also desirable.

For further information about this position, please contact Beverley Garratt - Manager, Community Work and Partnerships on 0407 816 520.

**Why work with us?**

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we provide every person with the means to achieve their potential through ongoing learning and development opportunities in a diverse, equitable and supportive environment.

We look for people who are prepared to do their very best in line with our values and behaviours. Our values shape and influence how we recruit, train and develop our staff and build relationships with stakeholders.

We will also provide you with professional development opportunities, an employee assistance program, access to job opportunities across the Victorian Government, salary packaging and much more.

**How to apply**
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply._
- FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES:_

**_ IMPORTANT INFORMATION:_**

The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees consistent with the department's obligations under the _Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic). _Th

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