Legal Officer

2 weeks ago


Brisbane, Australia Queensland Corrective Services Full time

**In this role you will**:

- Participate in the provision of legal advice and assistance (both written and oral) in relation to disciplinary matters involving QCS staff and processes, recommended outcomes and decisions, emerging or current case law, legislative governance and risk mitigation.
- Prepare timely advice, reports, correspondence and briefing notes on legal issues including statutory interpretation in relation to QCS activities and the law reform initiatives of external agencies to support more senior legal officers.
- Under supervision, liaise with Crown Law and other legal service providers to ensure a consistent, coordinated and effective approach to the provision of legal services to QCS with respect to disciplinary matters.
- Undertake legal research, analysis, review and evaluation to ensure that QCS' approach to discipline processes satisfies public sector standards for accountability and effectiveness that can be used to form legal views/opinions to support the work of the Command.
- Build co-operative relationships with stakeholders such as the offices of the Deputy Commissioners, Employee Relations group and Public Service Commission to assist in determining internal precedents, protocols and lessons learnt, to support the determination of consistent, defendable and fair outcomes from discipline processes.

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



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