Program Delivery Specialist

Program Delivery Officer Level 2

The successful candidate will be responsible for participating in planning activities to ensure prisoners have timely access to appropriate programs and interventions.

The primary responsibilities of the Program Delivery Officer (Level 2) include:

• Co-facilitating moderate and high-intensity general, violence, and sexual offending programs to prisoners;
• Administering appropriate assessments to prisoners and preparing them for offender intervention programs;
• Ensuring offender program activities are consistent with evidence-based practice and deliver offender intervention programs in accordance with operational plans;
• Monitoring progress of prisoners during programs and related activities and reporting on progress;
• Complying with program management procedures, standards, and guidelines;
• Identifying and responding appropriately to risks arising from offender assessment and management;
• Maintaining their level of knowledge of contemporary offender programs research and practices, and legislation, policy, and procedures in relation to prisoner management;
• Participating in case management activities as required for prisoners assessed as requiring program participation;
• Providing timely information to relevant sites in relation to each prisoner's participation in programs for case management;
• Monitoring offender management files and programs to ensure continuity and consistency, ensuring records and information data for the Integrated Offender Management system (IOMS) and the Offender Programs Assessment Service (OPAS) are accurate and current;
• Ensuring maintenance, accuracy, and appropriateness of records and intervention reports for appropriate authorities;
• Maintaining program data, analysing assessment results, and recording information;
• Providing advice to relevant officers regarding prisoner program suitability and/or other intervention activities;
• Contributing to case management and sentence management activities for prisoners;
• Supporting, coaching, and developing staff to effectively conduct their duties and identify opportunities for supporting colleagues in the effective delivery of programs;
• Completing Agency Supervisor and program facilitator training;
• Providing supervision in accordance with Accountability Standards and QCS supervision model/approach;
• Ensuring the timely provision of program participation reports and advice to courts, parole boards, and other agencies regarding prisoners' progress in intervention;
• Promoting the value of offender programs through effective collaboration with internal and external professional networks;
• Developing productive relationships with service providers and the community generally to enhance the community's regard for offender programs;
• Ensuring the safety and security of self and others and the security and confidentiality of QCS property and information.

The ideal applicant will possess a strong background in working with persons who have committed or been affected by domestic and family violence, exhibit attributes to elicit behavioural changes through offending programs, and demonstrate an ability to work alongside other specialist units to reduce recidivism within Queensland.

The possession of a tertiary qualification in psychology, social work, education, or behavioural sciences is mandatory. Membership or affiliation with a relevant professional association is highly regarded.

For Program Delivery Officers specialising in the delivery of violence and sexual offending programs, training in the use of relevant assessment tools (appropriate treatment) will be provided following appointment to a PDO position.

Applications will remain current for 12 months. The occupational group is Psychology, Counselling & Social Work. The seniority level is Entry-level, and the employment type is Full-time. The job function is Management and Manufacturing, and the industries include Public Safety.